Before kids, meeting out at bars and restaurants or hosting dinner parties were the ways that my husband and I most often socialized and we loved it. When kids came along, however, something changed: somehow meeting friends at a restaurant with toddlers in tow just wasn’t as relaxing and intricately planned three or four course meals that I cooked over a day or two just weren’t realistic. So we made a shift—we started hosting family…
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Hosting can be a stressful undertaking. Here is how I have learned to overcome my fear of entertaining and enjoy having people over for meals. Confessions of a Reluctant Host I don’t know about you, but I love a good party. I am especially a fan of dinner parties, where everyone shares a meal and talks for hours and hours. And yet I find entertaining to be a stressful undertaking. People are usually surprised when…
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For most of us, hosting a traditional Thanksgiving dinner is a formidable, if not stressful, event. In addition to the cooking, there are so many details to plan from the decorations to the shopping, not to mention the family dynamics that can come into play or that all of this is often prepared for much bigger crowds than we are used to. We Scramblers know that planning and shopping ahead is the key to saving…
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