I baked Russian tea cakes, thumbprint cookies,
spritz Christmas trees, and mint-chocolate chip cookies ...
and a moist pumpkin pie bar!I love getting everything ready for friends to visit!
Bob and Kay (below)
We enjoyed some yummie punch by the nice warm fireplace.
We sang Christmas carols
(accompanied by ME on the piano!), and
we sounded pretty good too as we
praised our Lord with song ...
and the afternoon passed pleasantly by!This is Michelle and Gene
Angela and Nigel
Angela read us some humorous
Christmas short-stories ...
this is the same Angela from Germany, who is
the instructor of my exercise class.
What a wonderful afternoon together!
I love the love of these friends!"...if we are living in the light of God's presence,
just as Christ is,
then we have fellowship with each other ..."
1 John 1:7
Sunday, December 2, 2007
LOGOS class Christmas dinner
Last month we had our LOGOS class over to our house for a time of fun and fellowship. That night, we decided the next class event should be a Christmas dinner. We talked about various dates, times, and places and finally agreed to make reservations at MANGIAMO's (formerly Gibson's) for Saturday night, December 1. We planned to meet there at 5:00, enjoy an "early" dinner and then come back to the Joneses (here!) for dessert and Christmas carols afterwards.
As the date for our dinner approached, I did my usual household preparation: cleaning, baking, more cleaning -- and since this was a Christmas get-together, I spent all week decorating the house. I had so much fun getting everything ready for folk to come over! But wouldn't you know? "The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry" to quote Robert Burns (even though he was a scoundrel). By mid-week, we were receiving some rather grim weather forecasts for the weekend. But what do weather people know, I thought to myself (rather naively), and TRIED to be optimistic about our upcoming event. Out here, in our neck of the woods, we received about 4 inches of snow Friday. Rockford Schools were closed! Whew! I was glad we got the snow Friday -- surely by Saturday, roads would be clear! However, by Saturday morning, there were dire predictions of a dreadful storm heading right for us, and set to begin at about 4:00 that very afternoon! The bad thing about this storm is that the forecast included snow, rain, sleet, freezing rain, and then more snow.
I returned a few of the phone calls, and everyone was so apologetic and kind. And then Nigel suggested that everyone come over Sunday afternoon and do dessert then. What a great idea! We made some calls and it was decided -- if we were not snowed in by morning (!), we would all go to church, have our class, and discuss details there. And that's exactly what happened. Three o'clock turned out to be a good time for everyone today (although two of the couples could not come at all). So here are some pictures of our time together today.
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I am finally catching up on the blogs. I'm so glad that everyone could come over on Sunday afternoon instead. What a fun time. And I've always wanted to go to Gibson's too!
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