The World According to Oatney

Preparing for a Christmas party

My wife and I are presently preparing for the first Christmas Party we will ever host together, being held tomorrow night at our place. We are excited about having our good friends come to our home and celebrate this wonderful season with us. Everyone attending the party will be bringing something to eat or drink that everyone can enjoy. My wife and I are doing the lion's share of the work, she'll be making chicken wings, two kinds of punch, cookies, and perhaps homemade candy.

Getting ready for a party can be a real pain, though, and we've learned that the hard way that doing this right takes a lot of effort. What's more, we have a long list of people we want to invite to the party, but we couldn't invite nearly as many as we wanted because our apartment is a lovely place, but reality demands that we face the fact that it is small. Hence, we were put in the unenviable position of picking and choosing who to invite. We have no favorites..we simply based our list on who among our friends was most likely going to be able to come anyway. (Our guesses proved to be largely correct.)

Our party experience hasn't been a perfect one, but it is our hope that when the party does finally happen tomorrow, those attending truly enjoy themselves, and that they'll want to come back.

posted by Deacon David Oatney @ 1:43 PM