I've recently (ish) moved to a new area into a small road.
Not long after I moved here with my family, another family also moved onto the road. They are local to the area, we are not. They have two kids. We have two kids. Our oldest DDs are of similar age.
There aren't any other families with young children on our very small street, so I was quite excited that my kids perhaps would have some play mates.
After a while of them moving in, I introduced myself to the mum and we exchanged numbers. I made it clear I would love for our kids to have play dates some time.
After some time went by, I texted the mum. The first time, she couldn't make it. She was nice enough and suggested another time she was free. We met up. All went fine. The kids got on fine. We talked how it would be nice for them to meet up, as we live so close etc
I haven't heard from her since then. I know her DD had a birthday in that time and I've seen bouncy castles and lots of balloons in their garden during the summer a few times. I assume they just didn't want to invite us to play or to the parties.
I haven't heard from her in 7 months or so and we are pretty much neighbours.
So my DD birthday comes around at the beginning of the month. We had a big party and I didn't invite them. I am sure they saw a lot of cars outside etc, it was quite clear.
I did consider inviting them, but I kind of felt like, the ball was in her court if she'd wanted to continue the friendship and they clearly had bouncy castles up for a lot of the summer and could have invited my DDs ( if not for parties, maybe just for a play date ). They clearly chose not to do so, so why should I invite them ?
Just reading it back, I do sound petty. But I just can't be bothered to try with people who don't try back !