Life is different.

My brother-in-law spent most of the day at our house yesterday. This was an unusual visit for him because he typically is really busy when he comes home. I think he has more time on his hands because his friends are now busy with their own families. In the last year several of his close friend's have gotten either married or had children. He now has to adjust to the changes in his circle of friend's. Instead of a guy's night out they not sit at someone's house and play board games and talk about who bought who a godson baptism gift. Spur of the moment road trips have been replaced by backyard cook outs. We have been married so long it is hard to remember these changes taking place in my own circle but I know that they did. It is just hard to see my brother-in-law now feeling like the odd man out in his own group simply because he isn't married or having children. I know things will work out and eventually they will establish a new normal within his group. Until then we will welcome his long visits because they have been so rare up to this point.