Tonight we are hosting a neighborhood picnic. In our backyard. Because we are the only home on our side of the street with a playset in the backyard. And because the only two others willing to host it have experienced unexpected tragedies within the past week--one had her baby 2 months prematurely, and the other fell out of a tree and broke his wrist and hip and is in a wheelchair.
SO, Yesterday one neighbor dropped off all the food and paper goods. Another used his chain saw to cut the tree we felled last weekend into firewood, and another helped go get tables and a tent to erect.
Dan's worked his tail off power-washing the deck and we split the big job of mowing the lawn. I've got food prep well under control. I'll spend an hour cleaning the bathroom that nosey neighbors will "need" to use in order to come see our house, but we're not stressing about making everything perfect. We know our yard isn't a landscaper's dream and our house isn't spotless. But we're ok with both of those.
(We keep telling ourselves) What matters is that we are willing to make sure everyone gets a chance to be together over a bite. Lets hope all the bites are made into food, and not comments. We're anticipating lots of "advice" on improvements...and comments on weeds...and...and...and...oh well!
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the picnic will be great. maybe there will be comments, but maybe there won't. let them roll off as they come. maybe you should make a short list of all the improvements you've made on the house since you've lived there. sometimes it's easy to get wrapped up in all the stuff we feel we still need to do that we forget how much we've already done. then if you have the list, it'll be easier to remind yourself (and your neighbors) of all the hard work you've already put into your house.
Yes Heather, you are right. I think they will be so wowed by the deck Michael built that they won't notice all the undone stuff. I'm just really hungry for hot dogs, "restaurant grade" hamburgers, and some cheddar cheese brats I cooked in PBR last night...yummy!
It'll be a smashing success and I bet a lot of fun. You are an amazing hostess and really are the hospitality queen.
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