We are very loud at our house

During the day, I made plans for a friend to stop by and borrow a piece of clothing (who would’ve thought I’d have something for someone else! – trying to stay on top of the fashion as much as possible). Anyway, after I picked up Dan from PREP, we went home and my friend came over. We were talking and all of a sudden, my dog starts barking (still a major issue) and my son has the brilliant idea to turn the tv up really loud over us talking and the dog barking. Yeah, you could probably hear us a mile down the road!! I realized that it's usually like this and this is the first time I actually thought about it for some strange reason. I told Dan to turn it down; apologized to my friend who understood completely and we continued our conversation. It was great to catch up with her as I don’t do that very often. I hope we can keep it up as sometimes life tracks us in different directions.