my BS group meets regularly on Monday evenings at my house…

lately we haven’t been studying or reading, just taking the opportunity to spend some quality time with one another…

more quality time…

every year we plan a dinner together which includes our spouses… the dinners have varied over the years from progressive dinners, to everyone bringing a dish to one person’s house, to going to a restaurant…

last February we went out for dinner…

this year we decided to have a chef come in and cook for us…  we chose a date, without too much difficulty, planned the menu, and were all set to gather this weekend to pahty…

then life intervened, and the date needed to be changed…  we went through all of our calendars, called varies second halves and came up with two possible dates over the next two months…  then one of those dates was scratched off the list…  then the chef wasn’t available for the only other date that worked… yikes…

after some more wrangling the chef was able to change her schedule and fit us in for the actual date that worked for everyone…

reminded me of how quickly things can change and how important it is to be flexible, willing to consult with others, and persevere to solve a problem…

this year there will only be nine of us, but I am still really looking forward to our dinner…