You might find this surprising, depending on how well you know D and I, or even to what extent you know us, but we’ve never in our adult, married life, (or ever) hosted a dinner. I know, I know, we are such social butterflies… NOT!
A couple weeks before our vacation to AZ we got bit by the spring cleaning bug and decided that everything needed to be cleaned and organized. (Including the dog!) Our house looked incredible! It was so clean! The day after we cleaned it D suggested we have one of my friends, and her family, over to dinner. We had been talking about it for months and it never happened. This was our chance and our house was really clean!
So, we invited my friend and her beautiful family over and started to think of what we were going to make. We both were so very excited and started talking about how we were going to fit everyone at our table, how we were going to feed everyone, and how we were going to pull everything off.
About 4 hours after this all started D had a moment of clarity and asked how we act or what we talk about when we have friends over. We are not good in social situations! Alone we each hide in corners, together, we still hide in corners! However, I knew some people who might have some pointers. I sent a text out to a couple of my good friends and anxiously awaited anything to help ease our nerves!
Thankfully I have amazing friends! They sent us lots of tips for how to handle ourselves. One in particular basically laid out step by step what we should do. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!! That saved our bootys!
When the time came D helped me out so much in the kitchen. Which made it his redemption dinner. You see, D has always used this one instance when I kicked him out of the kitchen while we made pizza (way back when we were just barely dating) as the excuse for why he doesn’t help in the kitchen. Well, this time he made the salsa, guac, arranged the veggie platter, and helped me do some other little things. It turned out great, especially all the parts he had a hand in.
We had a blast, we got to know some friends even better, BB got to play with her friend, we didn’t die, and we weren’t stuck with awkward silence! I am so glad we did it, and we both decided it is totally worth it to do it again!
Just so Juneau 
I am so proud of you for doing it.. You are both so much fun and all you have to do is be yourself. When you don’t plan so so far ahead and just do spur of the moment things they are always the most fun.. Do some game nights with friends.. You can always have them over for dinner or snacks and play cards, or any games once the kids go to bed.. Uncle Kenny and I did that ever since we got married. They would bring their kids and they would all play and we even bathed them put them to bed, and played the rest of the night.. Our kids loved doing that.. Those times were so much more fun than any others.. I guess that is why I still have those same friends from grade school.. They got to know the real me.. Just like you and Dom, just be you and everything will always work out.. Love you😍😍😍
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Doing things together as a family is the best! Sure you will keep it moving forward which keeps your family moving forward a trying new things.
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