Settlers
When Nancy asked if she and her three friends could spend the night at our house last Saturday I said ”absolutely.” What fun to have 4 young Amish folks stay over. And then I realized what will I do with them? I mean, come on, we watch TV- that is what we do at home, we are a tv watching kind of family. We are never home without that darn thing on in some room. And they don’t watch TV. If I turn if off – will we all just sit there and stare at each other? What will we talk about? First, we are older and they are teenagers which in any teenager’s mind makes us ancient. Second, they are Amish and we – well, we aren’t anything remotely resembling being Amsih. (though I secretly think I was Amish in a former life.)
They all arrived about 9pm with their horse and buggies and parked them over at Anna’s and Amos barn. Nancy brought all sorts of snacks. The boys wanted to watch TV and as Bob was already watching last year’s Superbowl on some sport channel those boys fell right in with him. That left me and the girls. I settled them into their rooms and then we walked over to Anna’s to the buggies and got a board game to play. After some cajoling the boys agreed to play as long as they could sit at the table facing the television. We are such a bad influence!!! I had never heard of this game but it was alot of fun and so I am passing the information onto you. It is a bit like monopoly, except you trade in sheep, bricks, wood and hay. I suppose that is why the Amish like it, as opposed to Park Place, Railroads and get of jail free cards. By midnight Bob and I were exhausted and losing at the game and so we went to bed. They all stayed up until 3am- watching tv!! Now in all fariness – they were all a little too familiar with the channel changer so it wasn’t like they don’t get other opportunities to watch. In fact, one of the boys is a carpenter and travels to NY 4 days a week and stays in a hotel – bet there is alot of TV watching going on there. Hope it isn’t pay per view!
They all got up early Sunday morning and had their horses hitched up and were going to church by 8am. It must be so hard to live in two worlds. Or perhaps they are the lucky ones and being young they can take in the best of both worlds. They can occasionly visit in our world and live in their world and maintain and enjoy their close knit family and community ties.
Faux Farm Girl
Annie