Comments on The Celebrated Family: The scary hostess

Great Wendy, I am glad you are allowing your guard...

2008-08-01T17:56:00.000-06:00

Great Wendy, I am glad you are allowing your guard down. Time with you is worth way more to me than anything you could cook no matter how wonderful.

I too made that discovery this week. I was hosting people in the middle of chaos and found that BLTA's were an easy solution with cut up fruit and a simple bag of rice crackers. For dessert I used a roll of sugar cookie dough and then added oatmeal, butterscoth chips, and milk chocolate chips, they looked and tasted homemade and were very simple. I hope you enjoyed your summer evening.

Jinny

Yay for you!I was a scary hostess at one point too...

2008-08-01T13:20:00.000-06:00

Yay for you!

I was a scary hostess at one point too. Having children was good for me...made me realize I couldn't do everything perfectly.

When John was a pastor, we were always having people over. At the last two churches we were a part of, we set aside one night a week for guests, and I came up with two menus that I rotated. Both were super simple (they had to be...I had small kids and a baby), and I learned to shut the doors to certain rooms in my house, and focus more on enjoying my guests than being the "perfect" hostess".

I still used those two menus today when we have guests over, and there is nothing I enjoy more than spending a relaxed evening with friends in our home.

I hope you guys had a lovely evening!

Someone told me that "cleaning is part of the fun ...

2008-08-01T08:07:00.000-06:00

Someone told me that "cleaning is part of the fun of being together, it's part of the meal"--let your friends help you clean, don't save all the hard work for after they leave! Love, Katy

Good for you. Although, I do remember well some o...

2008-08-01T08:05:00.000-06:00

Good for you. Although, I do remember well some of your fancy dinners and I must say that I was impressed! You are an amazing cook. Your fancy dinners were fabulous! (Even though I was pregnant and completely puked all over the place at one of them. --so sorry and embarrising!)
You're special! I do think, "someday when I move into my new house I'll have a big fancy dinner and use my fancy china, Like Wendy, and I be a grown up too." :-) I considered you a "grown up". But, again, thats in the land of no kids. :-)
Love ya! You're fabulous. Enjoy and go the easy route. I guess I don't need to be a "grown up", I have kids and like serving sandwiches to my friends. :-) Katy

what a relaxing and rewarding post. I am all abou...

2008-08-01T06:22:00.000-06:00

what a relaxing and rewarding post. I am all about the no-stress get-togethers. Hope your back is feeling better.

setting a perfect example of what joanne's book is...

2008-07-31T18:03:00.000-06:00

setting a perfect example of what joanne's book is all about! it all sounds so fabulous i only wished i lived around the corner from you! nothing's better than wanting to have people over and actually enjoying the prep and the time together.