Blind - Playdate

This is too funny and I had to share...(aka remember when the girls are in college).

So Natalie gets invited for a playdate today. No big deal, we do lots of playdates, have been doing them for a long time...BUT..this is with a mom I don't know - a blind-playdate if you will.

Ben was there this morning to witness the nervous jitters. Ben first asked, so do you call right away or wait 3 days so it doesn't seem like you are too desperate? Ha ha, very funny. In fact if it weren't for him I probably would have waited a few days. Done some research first...you know me! So I spoke to her right away, she was standing there and Ben told me "Don't be shy". We set something up and now the panic sets in.

She is typical mom, I have seen her lots at school and they attend the same church as we do, but Natalie is friends with her daughter, usually I am friends with the mom and Natalie just gets to play by default - this date is kid centered, kid initiated, WOW! So I plan to drop Natalie off for her playdate...of course Natalie is THRILLED, I think I may sit in my car around the block and bring a pair of binoculars...

I can't wait to see how it goes, lesson I have learned from this, perhaps I should of started inviting kids to my house first, this way I would have known them a little. I am so nervous...she isn't, and I won't let her see my jitters. I'm nervous for her, for all the things she doesn't know yet. I will update the success of the date and maybe we will become friends because of our daughters. It is like Natalie and I are growing up together:)