My Peepdom...Yes we're that hokey

Friday nights in my 'hood usually consist of my best neighborly friends getting together for dinner and inexplicably funny conversation. The group of us started calling ourselves 'peeps' (short for my people) when we discovered it was very embarrassing to one of the children. I mean, is there a better reason to do anything, than when it embarrasses your kids? I think not. So here's a rundown of the Peeps. Getting to know them will make the future stores infinitely more interesting.

Mary - Stay at home mom to 3 boys who are as mischievous as they are adorable. She has 5 kids total; the oldest being a 21 year old boy followed by the only girl at 18. The three boys are aged 7, 5, and 3. Mary has been affectionately dubbed the Godmother by us since the neigh bor (not liked by us) said she was our cult leader and we all had our heads up her ass. We still get a big chuckle outta that one.

Linda - Single mom of my oldest daughter's best friend. She lives right next door to Mary. By far the loudest and most vocal of our group, but that's one of the reasons we love her. She's always the one to keep Mary's head attached when the boys are slowly sucking out her brain. Being the single lady in the Peepdom, she keeps us entertained with stories of her...um...after hours life.

Jen - A relatively new member of the clique and is one of the funniest people I have met in my life. She's Puerto Rican and has no problem making fun of herself. She's a corporate Travel Agent, and I believe she's in a supervisory position. Being so, she's frequently jetting off somewhere warmer and nicer than our crap Ohio weather. I've noticed recently that I so adore Jen's personality, that I have started to pick up on her mannerisms. I'm not stalking her I swear...

Pete - The first guy to be officiallly 'Peeped'. Pete is Jen's boyfriend and they live together 3 houses around the cul de sac from Mary. He's every bit as funny as Jen, but with a deliciously dry sense of humor. These 2 have been together a loooong time, but both have done the marriage thing before so they're kinda 'over it'. I actually went to High School with Pete, but we didn't run in the same circles. He's a pastry chef...a very tall manly man pastry chef. And he's a really good pastry chef at that. We freqently enjoy salivating over his creations.

That's the core group of us. There are others that gather at deck parties in the summer where the alcohol flows freely, but this group gets together almost weekly. Between us, there are 7 kids between 3 and 11 that gather together (in a separate room of course).

Our conversations are some of the craziest. Last night we were discussing the first person to insult someone by calling them a 'douchebag'. You're insulting them by calling them a vaginal cleansing bag. People, this was just one the convo's we had.

So when I post something about Friday nights get ready, 'cause it should be good.

*Nope...no laptop net yet...