Tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. we pick up A. and K., their 3 children, the couple they are friends with and their 2 children, and bring them all back to our house for dinner/lunch. The menu will be beef and barley stew, bread, salad, and pumpkin cake and apple pie for dessert. Sounds pretty American, right? We’ll see how it all goes over . . .

My parents are coming up for the weekend and so they’ll be here for the dinner. Funny after I told A. and K. that they live at a distance. . .I’m probably going to confuse them now! My good friend C.S. will also be joining us. So that makes a total of 9 adults and 5 children. This is going to be great…

And I think this will be the first time they’ve ever had a meal in (or for that matter, ever have been) in an American home!