I'm having an After Dinner Party tonight!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I’m very close with Ivylad’s sisters, and although they live nearby we haven’t spent hardly any time with them, what with kids in school and work and what have you.

So, tonight, after dinner, they’re coming over with their kidlets and their hubbies. Everyone is supposed to bring a dessert. We’ll pop in a video for the kids and sit around eating cheesecake and drinking wine and/or coffee and catch up. I might pick up a pie, and I’m sure Ivylad will want ice cream.

I always have such a good time with them. It’s going to be fun! Nothing hard like making dinner for twelve people. Just dessert and drinks and fine conversation.

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Damn, what an excellent idea! Hope you have a great time!

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I have bought a Turtle cheesecake and some cinnamon butter cookie-flavored coffee.

I also bought mixed nuts, because I figure later on in the evening we’re going to want something salty to cut the sweet.

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What a civilised idea.

Chocolate dipped strawberries are easy to do and make a great inpression.

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I like this idea.

An after dinner party could be as elegant or as laid-back as you like. It’s not that much work, and it would be almost as easy to hold one at mid-week as it would on the weekend.

Maybe I’ll hold one of these, myself.

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In my second sentence, I didn’t mean to say, “elegant.” I meant to use the word “elaborate.” The “elegant” was part of a phrase I thought I’d deleted.

Preview is your friend. Preview is your friend.

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Shoot.

You guys are making me wish I’d polled first, “What are good ideas for an After Dinner Party?”

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Oh, I’m also making two loaves of banana-nut bread. I’m going to take a stick of butter and mix it with honey for the spread.

I’m not trying to pad my post count. I just woke up from a brief nap and my brain is not fully awake yet.

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We had a blast. We munched on banana-nut bread, the kids had pudding with gummy worms, and played hide-and-seek.

We spread caviar and Brie on Triscuits and sipped cinnamon butter-cookie coffee.

One of the little ones bumped her head, and while she was sitting on her mother’s lap being consoled, the Ziploc bag full of ice and water bust open and spilled ice-cold water all over my SIL and her niece. Well, as I said, it’s not a good party until someone needs an ice pack and a change of clothes.

And until you’ve seen a six-year-old girl dance up a storm to Ahab the Arab and Monster Mash and I’m a Lumberjack from Monty Python, well, my friends, you have not sampled the finer things in life.

I love having family close by.

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Sort of related, you reminded me of one of my favorite Christmas '02 moments. One of the kids got the first season American Idol CD as a gift, and a gaggle of them rushed into the family room to play it and dance. I’ll never ever forget my neice Bethann, six at the time with blonde hair so long she could sit on it, wailing her little heart out to a cover of Janis Joplin’s Piece of my heart.

Face all earnestly scrunched up, holding a naked Barbie for a microphone and just screaming “Come on, come on, come on and TAKE IT!!”

Why yes, I plan on playing the video at her graduation party someday, why d’ya ask? :smiley: