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Clown About Town
After a really fun 6 months of house searching in a seller's market, enduring the home inspection "no YOU fix it" process, bargaining for a lease extension and the flat out tramautizing move (am I a box bitch?), Vietbabe and I are now the proud owners of one of the 100 very modest, identical cape cods on a quiet street in suburban America. So much for the "privacy" of a home -- everyone is so close that for the first time I need "window treatments". Which leads me to my question about clowns....
The Babe turns two and I was going to have just the cousins over around 2 pm on a Sunday (only day available) for cake and have the clown from last year do his thing for an hour at about 3 pm. But....I don't know what to do about the neighbors, all of whom have kids (at least 2; all young) because none of us have fences, our yards all sort of go together and they'll all see the clown. I've met many of the families already and some have brought "welcome" gifts.
My feeling is the more the merrier so I would welcome the kids over. But do I go around to the different houses and give personal invites (I don't have phone numbers yet) and can I just serve sheet cake for the kids and not even have food offerings for the adults? I am a beginner to "neighborhood protocol" and this environment is so strange. I saw/heard the "ice cream man" for the first time the other day and was so flummoxed, I bolted after him, chasing him down the street like the bionic woman!!
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What if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it's all about??
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