It's a small, small world

Last night was the annual fundraiser banquet for New Life Family Services here in town. Dan and I had decided awhile back that we wanted to go but had quite a bit of difficulty finding a sitter. Just so happens that it was one of the high school's homecoming last night. But at last, the daughter of Dan's boss was able to babysit.

So we went down to the event center where the banquet was held. While we were perusing the items at the silent auction, I saw somebody that I swore I grew up with. I managed to get a glimpse of her name tag as I walked by and then knew that I had. She was busy talking with some other people so later, when she was free, I decided to go up to her and talk.

Now get this. She and her husband have been living here for about a year. I happen to work with her husband (he is a doc who works on our unit sometimes) and she mentioned that she just started homeschooling this year!! She has 3 kids and her oldest son happens to be in choir with Kara. She is an ultrasound tech and volunteers at New Life doing ultrasounds of pregnant mothers. Then she told me that her sister now lives in Winterset (mere miles from mom and dad) and her parents now live in Ankeny (also not that far from mom and dad). The other thing she said was that they had visited our church a few weeks (?) ago and she saw me there, went home, called her parents and told them that she thought she saw me.

We should be seeing each other more frequently now since our kids are in choir together so hopefully we'll be able to get together some time.