I Love Playdates!

We all trooped over to one of my best friend's house yesterday. She has a son who is 1 year older than Aubrey, and the kids (even Eli!) played like fiends for a few hours. Aubrey and Eli adored the horses and one of the barn cats even let my two rub him (bad security risk, kitty!) When most people in an area "stayed home" with kids, did they have play dates a lot? Or was there too much to do? Growing up we had another family living nearby with kids our age and my sister remembers our mother and theirs sitting and drinking wine while we ran wild in the back yard, but they moved away when before I entered kindergarten. I still see kids in packs running around my neighborhood, but that honestly makes me a little nervous. I wish we could have play dates more often - the company, the interaction of the kids, the new experiences - all of these things made a summer day a wonderful treat!