If you haven’t seen the poet Harry Baker’s lovely, whimsical poem about his New Year’s resolutions, stop everything and watch it right now. “To find a new musical act I love…or let them find me.” “To buy more drinks for friends and have friends buy more drinks for me.” “To share something that isn’t necessarily perfect or even finished.” “To hug someone I haven’t hugged before.” So simple. So good.
This year, one of the plans/goals/resolutions I’ve been mulling over is to host two couples for dinner each month of the year, and have a slow, quiet meal full of rich conversation together. I love to host and we tend to have “the more the merrier” parties, which are fantastic but it’s sometimes easy to miss actual connection with the people who come. After reading Holy Hygge this year, this idea of simple, small dinners with just a few friends started to form. And it’s totally do-able.
Jaime, in Holy Hygge, even suggests having one go-to meal for hosting, so you don’t even have to spend time thinking about meal planning, trying a recipe you’ve never tried before, etc. I’m kind of leaning toward these lemon rosemary chicken meatballs with orzo at Halfbaked Harvest.
We’re still playing with how to organize it — do we want to center it around a conversation topic, and invite two couples who would be interested in the topic (the arts, politics, education, the outdoors, etc.)? Or center it on areas of our lives (homeschool co-op, scouts, church, work, etc.)? People who know each other? People who we think should know each other?
Do you all do this? Do you have any ideas or recommendations for us?
Spilled Milk 