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A week of dinner parties

Oct 18th, 2008 by

This week was a turning point for us:  We hosted our first Chicago dinner party on Wednesday night (for our small group–relatively disaster-free although I made twice the fettucini we needed and haven’t cooked since) and attended our first dinner party tonight at Hannah’s!  After meeting many folks here who have different political/intellectual/family/religious backgrounds than we do, it was sweet to sit down with some Hillsdale folks (Brian Blummer came so we did some Teague-loving, Katie!) and a really cool couple from Hannah’s small group (Myron is at TEDS getting his MDiv after doing IV for 10 years!) and talking about how British lit is better than American (although Hawthorne short stories are better than most), pros and cons of starting Greek and Hebrew the same semester at seminary (Brian’s doing both; Myron is doing one at a time), whether Hannah and I should try for Koine or classical Greek (we’re starting with koine, I think), what baby items are really necessary, why trips to Europe are cool, and art from the Vatican.  *contented sigh*  Part of my rosy view of the evening is probably due to the fact that I stuffed myself with chips and guac, apples and cheese, amazing sausage lasagna, roasted carrots, acorn squash, homemade bread with roasted garlic spread, and apple crisp with pumpkin ice cream.=)  I’m not at all surprised that my collegiate partner-in-tea-party-crime has become an amazing hostess, and I’m so grateful for the great evening of food and fellowship with likeminded people.  Maybe I’m going to like Chicago, after all!

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One Response to “A week of dinner parties”

  1. katie says:
    October 27, 2008 at 7:25 am

    awww… Emily, your dinner parties sound lovely!!! Isn’t fellowship with good community just so refreshing?? Speaking of which, I’m practically beside myself wanting to spend time catching up with you. I miss you tons!!