This passed Saturday, January 29th, my family hosted a "ladies only" dinner party at our home, in support of CHGlobal. In thinking of what we could do to help with the Power of One campaign, my family and I had a little brainstorming session over dinner one night, and figured out that we love to host our friends for dinner, and we love to eat...a dinner party was a perfect idea!
We sent out invitations by email and phone, to about 25 people. With only a week's notice, we were thrilled that 18 people said they could attend! The invitation was to come to our home for dinner (to be created and cooked by my awesome "in home chef"... aka my husband!), not to bring a thing for dinner (which was tough for my friends who are so generous), and, if they were interested, to make a donation to CHGlobal.
We had an incredible time. My husband cooked and our daughters (and a couple of extra teenagers) served and cleaned up. We served curried sweet potato and pumpkin soup, salad, and beef tenderloin with all of the fixin's! For desert we enjoyed cookies, fudge and cheesecake!
We were so pleased that we more than surpassed the target we had set...people were incredibly generous. Even those who could not attend sent us donations!
Just "One" idea that could make a difference...and we had a whole lot of fun doing it!!
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Janet Nolan
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