Originally Posted January 3, 2006
We hosted an open house for the neigbors a couple of Sunday's prior to Christmas. It is pretty customary here for people to leave you alone when you move into a new neighborhood unless you make the first move. If you do not, they will figure you want your privacy and will not make much eye contact or say hello. So, we threw a big open house and invited over 38 families. It was a great success. We had over 40 people come and most stayed all afternoon rather than just dropping in. When we weren't engaged in conversation or refilling the food tables, we just watched in amazaement. We heard some neighbors telling one another that they had lived here for 7 years, or even 20 years - and had not met any neighbors yet. They were all very appreciative of the initiative we took in getting everyone together. By the end of the afternoon, some were even pondering other neighborhood gatherings that might happen in the future.
We hosted an open house for the neigbors a couple of Sunday's prior to Christmas. It is pretty customary here for people to leave you alone when you move into a new neighborhood unless you make the first move. If you do not, they will figure you want your privacy and will not make much eye contact or say hello. So, we threw a big open house and invited over 38 families. It was a great success. We had over 40 people come and most stayed all afternoon rather than just dropping in. When we weren't engaged in conversation or refilling the food tables, we just watched in amazaement. We heard some neighbors telling one another that they had lived here for 7 years, or even 20 years - and had not met any neighbors yet. They were all very appreciative of the initiative we took in getting everyone together. By the end of the afternoon, some were even pondering other neighborhood gatherings that might happen in the future.
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