On Friday, December 18th, Abby and I hosted 9 lovely young ladies and their moms for dinner. This event was the celebration after spending the fall reading and discussing the book The Scarlet Pimpernel, including learning about the styles, food, and manners of the time. We figured out that by moving some furniture, we could seat everyone at one long table. It was a lovely, several course dinner. The girls prepared and served all the food. After dessert, they had a gift exchange and sang Christmas songs and then, we had tea (as if we needed MORE food!). I forgot that my lovely teapot had been broken and glued back together...needless to say, it didn't hold tea very well, so the tea ended up in a plastic pitcher. Not as lovely, but it worked!
It was a chaotic night, since Dan had to leave in the middle of it to open the church gym, and Elizabeth and Isaac didn't enjoying waiting in the basement with Zeke until he returned with pizza and a movie for them. Then, Becky and Andy arrived home(Andy went up to Kirksville to pick Becky up after her last final Friday morning). To top it all off, we got our first snow of the season, which fortunately, was beautiful and very light!! So we had to put our boots on and tromp through the snow to the shed, where we watched "The Scarlet Pimpernel" in our "theatre" on the big screen -- quite an experience with a bunch of giggly girls. After the movie, the old folks went to bed, though I think Becky and Dan stayed up to talk quite late, but Abby and her friends had a sleep-over. I think they got some sleep :)
It was a chaotic night, since Dan had to leave in the middle of it to open the church gym, and Elizabeth and Isaac didn't enjoying waiting in the basement with Zeke until he returned with pizza and a movie for them. Then, Becky and Andy arrived home(Andy went up to Kirksville to pick Becky up after her last final Friday morning). To top it all off, we got our first snow of the season, which fortunately, was beautiful and very light!! So we had to put our boots on and tromp through the snow to the shed, where we watched "The Scarlet Pimpernel" in our "theatre" on the big screen -- quite an experience with a bunch of giggly girls. After the movie, the old folks went to bed, though I think Becky and Dan stayed up to talk quite late, but Abby and her friends had a sleep-over. I think they got some sleep :)
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