weird-o-rama

There is small world - and then there is like Twilight Zone small world.

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In 7th grade Sheila moves to town - we are both athletes, both musical - and become best friends almost instantly. We go to the same church, both have annoying little brothers (who grew up to be absolutely wonderful), all through junior high we are inseparable.

Fast forward 18 years (give or take) we both have kids about the same time - both girls.

Fast forward another 6. Her little girl goes off to first grade and ends up sitting next to a little brown-eyed girl. Those two little girls become best friends. Little brown-eyes girl is my niece. (Who even though she looks like my little brother, is not nearly as annoying as he was at 6.) Weird huh?

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So - just this year I send my own baby girl off to first grade, where she sits next to a little blonde haired girl that we will call Sid. Kooka and Sid become fast friends. Kooka invites Sid to a Halloween party where we discover that - guess what? Sid is Sheila's neice.

Now, if you are keeping track it works like this - MY neice is best friends with Sheila's kid. SHEILA'S neice is best friends with my kid.

It gets better.

Kaia decides to invite Sid over tomorrow to play. We can't seem to find Sid's phone number. Nothing is where it should be since we moved. We finally manage to get a hold of it, and we call her mom. She asks where we live. We tell her, and she is quiet for a minute. "Did you just move in?" she asks. I tell her we did. "We live next door to you," she says.

So in the dark cold night. I carry Kooka into the front yard - her mom carries Sid, and the two of them just stare at each other for a minute. "This is sooooo weird!" Kooka says. She has been living next door for two weeks and didn't even know it.

So now - we will be able to have the best slumber parties ever. Brown-eyed girl can come to our house, Sid and Sheila's kid can meet over there and everybody can hang with their best friends and cousins all at once.

Kooka is thrilled beyond belief.