Hosting

Write about a gathering you hosted.

                Last night we hosted a gathering for the families that offered us so much support when Kai was in the hospital.  I realized that we’ve entered into a whole new arena with our kids.  The entire night, all of the kids, ages 11-6 played upstairs.  I worried that the kids from the other families would end up bored out of their mind without video games and beg their parents to never drag them to our house again.  Instead, the kids spent the entire time digging through our dress up containers.  They spent time rehearsing a play.  Then they performed it for all of the adults. 

For as much as I really love to get together with people, I often seem to avoid having people over to our house.  I worry that it is too small.  We don’t have a basement, media room, video games or (gasp) cable.   I don’t have all the perfect serving dishes like some of my friends or a go-to menu for fantastic meals.  None of that really mattered.  We just wanted to say “Thank You” to some really wonderful people, for their prayers for Kai, the afternoons watching Elizabeth baking brownies or having her over to play, letting our dog Pippi out when we couldn’t and even giving her a bath!  We wanted to say thank you for making us feel so protected and loved.  Having Kai in the hospital was scary, but it brought us many blessings; a new closeness with friends and the realization that kids don’t really care if you don’t have video games at your house as long as you provide superhero costumes and lacy dresses to run around in.