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Monday, October 15, 2007

I don't heart mondays

Had to get up early this morning and search the house for library books. Lucy and I like to go during TAFA.
It's rainy, rainy today.

DH and I had the brilliant idea to do a cleanse. So I ordered this wonder powder~ balanced, organic, whole food, good for you liquid diet stuff. Had the first "delicious" drink this morning and GAGGED! It was so DISGUSTING! If the rest of the day doesn't go a lot better I'm going to be peddling this stuff on the street and keeping my arteries clogged up. YUCK!!

For Yvonne:

Peaches are so easy.
Cut them in half and grill face down for about 4 minutes until you have grill marks.
Turn them over, coat with butter, sprinkle on a brown sugar cinnamon mixture 2T sugar for every 1t cinnamon. Remove from direct heat and grill 10 more minutes until peach is tender and topping is caramelized.

Dinner Groups:
We send out a sign up at church. This is our third year and we average about 20-25 couples each time.
Then we assign everyone a month to host. Usually we have 5 hosts per month. Then we figure out who goes where.
At the beginning we sent out a letter with all the dates we would be meeting and hosting assignments.
A couple weeks before the big night we call the hosts for that month and remind them and just make sure that everything is fine.
A couple days before we call everyone else and tell them where they will be going. We also call the hosts again and tell them how many couples will be there. They do not know who is coming to their home, and the guests don't know who else will be there.
Our goal is to rotate everyone around so that you have a chance to spend the evening with everyone in the group.

We have some kinks in the system but for the most part it goes great and people have a good time.
It is a little labor intensive and there is some worry about how it will turn out each time. You should start one, it's very fun :)

5 comments:

nikko said...

Isn't this rain lovely? At least it will cool things down for a day or so. Thanks for putting together the dinner groups. We always have so much fun. Our dinner at the B's was great!!

Have fun at TAFA!

Dani said...

You didnt put jennas dress picture up

utmommy said...

I don't heart Mondays either.

wendy said...

Wow! those peaches sound great!

And your dinner groups sound like a lot of fun. Are you the activity people? or did you just kind of start it on your own? I like that it is kind of anonymous - like a mystery!

Yvonne said...

Thanks so much for the info. I can't wait to try to peaches.

I'll have to talk to some friends here about doing the dinner group. It sounds like it would be a lot of fun.