On a happier note than lost children, we have just rounded out a very socially active period at our household with the migration of a set of bunk beds from a friend's house to ours.
The girls last night got to sleep in their very own bunk beds for the first time ever. The beds were a gift from our friends Anne and Vince, whose son no longer needs them. To be honest, I'm not really sure why they had a pair of Ikea bunk beds with only one child, but I'm not going to begrudge them the opportunity to pass on to us a costly piece of bedroom furniture. We broke the beds down, moved them, and set them up in the span of a single day, ranging from around 1 p.m. until 10:30 p.m. (Evangeline was difficult to get moving this morning, but that was to be expected.)
The new beds allow us to use less floor space for bedding, giving us the chance to use the bedroom for other things as well, such as some of their toys and maybe a place we can create an impromptu art studio for Evangeline.
This wraps up a rather active weekend where we have had a steady procession of friends and guests cycle through our house in rapid succession. Saturday night, we had friends for dinner whom we've got to know through our children, who attend or have attended preschool with one another, and through my biweekly Dungeons and Dragons sessions. Sunday evening was another of those D&D friends, followed Monday by another good friend of Evangeline's from preschool.
Thank God for friends. It seems at times that we have so few of them, and we so quickly pass from one another's lives. Every connection we have with another person reminds us that we are real, and gives us another opportunity to see God.
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