You know how last weekend I was at Disney World meeting all those amazing mommy bloggers?  Well, who’d a thunk that I’d come home and within a week have the opportunity to meet another?  I know.  Wonders never cease.  But that, my friends, is exactly what happened.

     Not long after starting my blog I came across Kellie while surfing through other blogs.  Right away I noticed that we share a birthday and so I, of course, had to send her a shout out.  And because I liked her site design and laid back, honest writing style, I kept checking in on her over the course of a week or two to see what she was up to.  As I read more and more of her posts I found lots of similarities between the two of us.  But when I saw this and read that she, too, lives in the desert, I was curious if she was close by. 

     A few more emails were exchanged before we realized that not only do we live in the same desert city, but that we live within just a few miles from each other.  I know!  Crazy stuff isn’t it?

     Well, despite the warnings against a real life get together with a person you met on the internet, Kellie and I decided to do just that.  At least we opted to meet in a public place (the park).  You know, that way if she had wielded an axe I could have easily screamed for help.  As it turned out though Kellie and her two kids weren’t armed with anything but a couple bottles of water and some folding lawn chairs.

     I had such a great time hanging out at the park with Kellie and her sister-in-law, Dana.  Come to find out Kellie and I weren’t the only ones who had some similarities; Dana and I both have four children that are around the same ages.  In fact, between the three of us we had enough kids there to start our own baseball team!

     If you don’t count Cassidy’s perpetual pleads for me to help her on the monkey bars and Kennedy’s momentary lapse of behavioral judgement I think our first meeting went off without a hitch.  I learned more about Kellie and her family (including the fact that she carries both sunscreen and band-aids in her purse - hello, mom of the year?) and enjoyed a beautiful afternoon with them at the park.  And how could I be anything other than honored to hear that Kellie braved this and shaved her legs just to meet lil’ ol’ me!

     The park escapade was tons of fun but we’ve already decided that next time, we’re totally doing the mom’s night out thing.  New friends meeting for a sunny park play date?  That’s good stuff.  But new friends breaking bread with a glass of wine close at hand?  Now that’s even better.