Dinner? I’d love to!

We invite a lot of people over. Well, not like every week, but we try to invite someone to dinner at least once a month. We have a lot of new people moving into our ward, so it’s given us many opportunities to invite new people. It’s fun! We enjoy getting to know people, or getting together with friends (and it forces us to clean the house.) Well, last week, someone actually invited us! We were quite shocked. Because with all the inviting we do, there are very few people who invite us back, and most of them are Melinda. But this family invited us over for “erapas”, which are Venezualen stuffed sandwich things. It was very fun to get to know them better, the kids played well together and we enjoyed their hospitality.

But yesterday, we had neither invited anyone, nor were we invited anywhere else (not even Grandma’s). Ryan said we should hit someone up at church and try to get a dinner invitation. “Hi, would you like to invite us and our 5 kids to your house for dinner? We’ll bring a salad!” Maybe the sad and lonely approach would be better. Something like: “My wife never fixes anything good for Sunday dinner. Would you mind if I came over to our house? And can I bring the family?” The kids don’t have any tact, I could teach them a line or two to use, such as: “My mommy’s not been feeling well and my dad’s been out of town all week. Do you think we could come to dinner today?” That’s kind of pitiful. Maybe a direct apporoach would be better, like: “We’d love to come to dinner. What time?” Or, maybe, “Congratulations! You win dinner with the Ericksons–at your house!”

We’ll work on those and let you know how it goes.