Chatbug Karen

My nephew and his wife are expecting a baby, due in December. Friends of theirs gave them a baby shower which I attended. It was so much fun!

I noticed that most of my niece’s friends are pregnant which makes it really nice that their kids will have lots of friends the same age. The moms and dads can find comfort in each others struggles and triumphs. Now, at my age, I say, misery loves company but I am sure these kids are enjoying this stage in their lives.

The baby shower was low key with a few games and opening of gifts. I was impressed by the food. There were little chicken salad sandwiches, fruit and vegetable trays and of course the cake. The theme for the nursery is farm animals and so the hostess made a barn cake. Around the barn she had placed cupcakes decorated with a variety of farm animals faces. So cute!

Tonight is the night when I will feel as if the Christmas season has begun. Our church is having our annual tasting party and rejoicing service. This service is a fun, light evening of singing from many groups. We have our local swing choir perform their Christmas selections and the local Barbershop quartet wows us too. Our minister gets goofy and we have loads of fun during the evening. After the singing portion of the event, we are all invited to share our yummy goodies we have each brought to the table. This is not the time to concern ourselves with weight loss diet pills. I am bringing caramel corn again this year.

Most of you know that my son got married this past weekend. I cannot wait to tell you all about it! It was fabulous, beautiful, memorable and fun. I will post more as the weeks past but I wanted to show you how the table decorations turned out for the rehearsal dinner. I went with simple decorations and I thought they turned out nice. The rehearsal dinner was held at Harry & Izzy’s Restaurant, downtown Indianapolis. They treated us very well and the food was awesome. More to come…

When???
It starts today
Monday, January 26 – Friday, January 30

Where???
At Bella Casa’s Blog!

COME JOIN THE FUN!!!

One more traditional gathering to attend and it will be time to relax. We enjoy getting together with friends we have known since BK (before kids). They didn’t have a party last year and we didn’t know what to do with ourselves!

I have a problem though. I need ideas for what to take to this New Years Eve party. What do you like or better yet what do you look forward to eating at a New Years Eve party?

Besides good food, we play games and watch movies. Mostly we catch up on what each of us has been doing. It seems we don’t get together enough to just sit and talk.

It gets harder each year to stay up until midnight. We do it to be polite. LOL We stay a little bit longer once the clock strikes midnight. We don’t want to zip out at the stroke of the clock. Some day we may have to bring our pajamas and stay the night. Now, that would be a hoot.

Happy New Year everyone.

I will be going down memory lane a bit as I go through pictures and sort them. You will just have to bear with me.

I have pictures from every year of my kid’s birthdays. Who doesn’t take pictures on their kid’s birthdays? I was reminded of a special party my son had on his tenth birthday. Unbeknownst to me, he had told of the invitees to bring their dogs. Imagine my surprise when little boys began arriving and brought their dogs. LOL Greg had already planned to serve ice cream with a dog biscuit to each of the dogs, which we did. There was our dog, Charlie, a Boston Terrier. Morgan’s dog, Princess, Dacshound I will call a wiener dog for lack of spelling ability , and Matt’s dog, a Skipper Ki. I don’t remember the name of Matt’s dog. Ryan had a poodle but for some reason she did not attend. When I call this party a zoo, I mean it. It was a real zoo.