Reminder

I've made myself pretty isolated and can't seem to get out of it.  While the littles are wild and rambunctious....and I am self-defeating there....I don't want to take them places where they will get too excited and break something.  Self-defeating because they do calm down and act much better at places they go to a lot.  It's like a new place is just too exciting.
I thought I had made a new friend, maybe one who isn't judging me or the littles.  But I was wrong.  And so it is.  And it makes me sad.
Then we get this invitation in the mail.  I have friends up north who we haven't seen for a couple of years.  We have been up there several times to visit since they moved up there and have stayed at their  house a couple of times.  Their son is having his Bar Mitzvah. And we have been invited to it and the Shabbat services the night before.
And I am reminded that while our circle is small we have wonderful people in it.  We can't help that some of them live in different places. And while we will keep trying to make our cirlce bigger, we will appreciate the ones already in it.
Now I need to study up on Bar Mitzvah etiquette and what to wear.  I feel extremely blessed for the reminder that we have great people in our lives.