Just beautiful.

Well, the dinner was amazing.

I am so grateful for so many things, but mostly that the spirit of the little school that benefited the most from this dinner was felt through and through. We all looked the same in our uniforms. Steve and George served. Jenny and I prepared plates and readied everyone for the next course, the future--to which they could look forward.

The food was wonderful, and most everyone scraped their plates at each course. The lamb turned out so beautifully, which was what I was most concerned about. The converstation flowed. We left them alone and the guys only bothered them to clear plates, refill drinks and bring the next course. They wanted recipes and one wanted to take one of my menus home. All in all? A 5 star dinner. I am so happy and it was SO much fun.

Thank you Steve, George, and Jenny. What an amazing team we are. George LOVED making deigns on the plates with chocolate ganach, raspberry sauce, and chocolate shavings for the desserts, the thing they would likely remember the most. (I think he's sort of a feng shui perfectionist, which boded well for the chef :)

The Limousine driver was wonderful. He only had to spend about three hours in the SHOP because, after he dropped everyone off here, he was following a truck carrying big tree limbs and one fell off. The limo driver swerved, but inevitably ran it over anyway. He said the limo started SMOKING. Hmm.....that could have been a problem. But a friend of a friend helped him out and replaced a part. He was still here right on time last night to take everyone home. I woke up this morning just praying that everyone got all the way home. Can you imagine 8 dressed-up people thumbing it at 11:00 at night on Highway 17? Not the kind of excitement I was hoping for.

Off to shower, Mass, pick up kids from Grandma's, come home and DO DISHES ALL DAY LONG. It's 9:30 and 95 degrees outside. It might be a good day to be inside anyway.