Day Five: Inviting and giving

Happy Friday! This has been a surprisingly fun week for me - it is fun to have goals when other people are trucking along with you and blogging about it! Well, today's theme is inviting and giving. I love inviting people to my home, but feel like it is always hard to make it work - especially now that we are entering the holiday season! We are having one of Justin's co-worker's and her fiance over for dinner on Monday, so that gives me some plans to think about and work on today. I have another family I have been meaning to invite over, so I will try and plan that with them... and then there's the neighbors from down the street. So that part is covered.

After reading this goal for the day, I went to my inbox and saw a friend had sent me this. It sure got me thinking about the upcoming Christmas holiday and what it truly means to give from our home. I certainly don't want to be contributing to the useless gift pile that eventually ends up at someone's white elephant party or spring yard sale! But for some reason I tend to feel guilty for not spending money on something nice to give my friends and family. I think this falls into the area of pride, and is clearly something I need to work on! So, there will be some blogging to come on ideas for giving from our home instead of from our pocketbook... but I need a week or so to mull this over!

On to my girlies! Here is Oh-So-Proud Lauren showing off her craft from fun-day yesterday.

We did have our cocoa and cookie tea party after dinner - though Paige only participated in the cookie part! She has this new thing where she holds her hand out and opens and closes it when she wants something, as in - "Give THAT to ME." ;o) Apparently she wanted my camera...

Lauren loved the hot chocolate with marshmallows - which surprised me! I expected her to say she only wanted the marshmallows DRY - to eat them (in typical three year old picky fashion). But she was all about our little dessert party, especially since she got to use her big girl tea cups from Aunt Ra-Ra!

Have a wonderful weekend!