dinner update

The family dinner went very well. Actually, it was surprisingly pleasant. Everyone was in a good mood, which.. let's be honest here.. is a rarity in my family. It may have helped that the kids weren't there, and it was a pretty small crowd, relatively speaking--eleven, in total, counting us. In other words, almost half of us were missing. I made food for the whole crowd, though (three full 9x13 pans of lasagna and one similarly-sized pan of baked spaghetti. I knew I wouldn't need all that food but I had great plans of putting it all in the freezer in lunch portions. Except then I ended up giving a great many of them away. *sigh* Oh, well. I didn't mind at all.. I was just hoping to get more piled away in the freezer.

The funny thing now is that we have been working like mad to get everything cleaned up and everything put away for this. We did enough work that my dad told me two different times that they could really see that we had done a lot of work on the house and it just looked so good and they were proud, etc. There is no longer anything visibly wrong or out of place. And so after everyone left, just before five.. it was a little hard to figure out what to do with myself. It's that feeling you get when you have a super-clean house because you have company, only super-sized. Quite nice, really, although so weird. It's kind of nice to get to a point where you're doing so much stuff all the time that it feels awkward to relax. It's more satisfying this way than to never get around to doing stuff because you're busy doing nothing. I have no idea if that even makes sense. I have a headache and I'm very sleepy.