Small world

I'm sure you have said "Wow! Small world..." many a time. Coincidences, eerily similar experiences, smaller degree of separation that you ever thought imaginable, shared moments with people you knew but didn't know how overlapped you are. We had two such moments over the last several days.

Josh and I were out on Saturday afternoon taking down the side of our patio enclosure that we built 4 to 5 years ago (plans are to convert it to a dining room for true interior living space). A neighbor two houses down from us with a daughter that is Ethan's age came by to say hi after learning a few days before that both she and Josh are "partners in crime," fighting their respective nomas. And she's going to the same doctor that Josh started with here in Plano and they're both in between their 2nd and 3rd rounds of chemo. Despite the basic similarities, their fights are much different, especially with how they're affected by the chemotherapy. Josh has a good 5 days of down time, hers is more like 2, but they both have the "not yourself" feeling with the quick-to-snap, unexpected outbursts. Small world.

At Ethan's basketball game on Sunday, the sons of two different families we know were playing on two separate adjacent courts to ours. It gave us a moment to catch up with each of the families and give hugs. Small world.