Yesterday Travis and I had our housewarming party. It was a lot of fun. I had been kind of worried about it because it really is the first party I’ve ever thrown by myself. I have always either had my mom helping me or other friends. But this one was just me (and Trav–but he didn’t help that much with the food…more on that in a little bit).
We were expecting about 30 people to show (a lot of our friends from church and my work couldn’t make it so it was a smaller crowd than we would’ve liked but it was still fun!. I was terrified of running out of food so of course I made too much. I was planning on getting up early so I could have my morning coffee, read the Bible, maybe have time to go on a run. But I got up at 9:30 instead so I booked it to the grocery store and started making the food by 11:00 (luckily I had cleaned the night before and the party didn’t start until 4:00).
I roped Travis into helping because I was feeling the time crunch (once again, unnecessarily anxious). He started working on the mini-cheesecakes while I started working on the veggie pizza. I put the crescent rolls into the oven and went to get the cream cheese out of the fridge so I could start on the dip for the pizza. There was no cream cheese in the fridge. “You used all of the cream cheese?” I accused Travis. “Wasn’t I supposed to?” Travis asked. “I said to only use 5. You used 7.” “You didn’t say that.” “Yes, I did. You just weren’t listening.” “Well, that may be true but I was trying to follow the recipe. I just got in a groove and dumped them all in there.”
Yes, all those things were said. No, they were not said in that way. We really yelled at each other and I threatened to disappear for the whole day and not only not make any food for the party, I wouldn’t even show up. “Your personality won’t let you do that,” Travis said. That pissed me off even more. I wish I could say that I reacted in a very loving, Christ-like manner but I didn’t. I just yelled at Travis to go to Target and buy me more cream cheese.
Since I had bought 7 tubs of cream cheese, Travis got the last 2 they had–we cleaned them out of the generic light cream cheese. But luckily, the mini-cheesecakes and the veggie pizza both turned out and the food was a hit.
HI there!!! I found your blog on the nest and have found myself reading it every chance I get. What wonderful Grace the Lord give us and I feel it everytime I read your blog. May the Lord continue to bless you and your marriage!!!
In Christ,
Adriana