So when did we get a social life???

This is what my husband wanted to know a few minutes ago. So when DID we get a social life. I don't know. I guess we've had a social life on and off for years now but we have moved so frequently that sometimes we forget. In the past we've moved just when we've assembled a nice litle group of friends that we all enjoy. You know the kind I mean - the friends where everyone involved actually enjoys one another - you like the wife, your husband likes the husband, your kids play nice together - not the kind where you like the wife but really the others not so much and your husband reluctantly goes to a cookout at their house but you have to hear about it the whole drive over. Sometimes it takes a while to assemble a nice little group of friends. For us it seems to take about two years or so and up until now at about the two/three year point, we seem to be moving on to another city thanks to my husband's job, thus leaving behind our nicely assembled group of new friends. The good part is that we have friends that we keep in touch with from all of our old homes but the bad part is that we find ourselves without much of a social life for long stretches of time. In some ways that can be nice and we do try to make the best of it because my husband and I actually enjoy each others company (how strange is that!) and we really like our daughter (amazing) - so we do things together on the weekend like swim or play tennis or sit on the couch watching HGTV (sad but actually true) and we just relax together. At times we have even been smug about it as my brother and his wife are racing around to no less than 3 birthday parties each and every weekend followed by dinner at her parents house and some function or another with church friends. Or as my husbands sister and her husband shuttle between her parents and his and all of their required social functions - not really staying at any one long enough to enjoy any of it. We have sat back and chuckled to ourselves that we are so happy to be able to do what we enjoy with our time and not have so many social obligations. But, the truth is that I grew up in a very social family - lots of last minute cookouts; my mother's friends stopping over for coffee, neighbors coming over in the evening to sit in lawn chairs on our front lawn and watch all of the kids play, etc and I tend to miss that type of thing. So, I am never truly content until we have a full social calendar and it seems that we are once again filling up our weekends and our evenings with good friends and people we enjoy. Let's just hope that doesn't mean that we are approaching another move. I guess the one good thing about this economy is that since selling our house at this point is unlikely, we are going to be staying put for awhile. Good thing we have a social life to take our mind off of it!