Well - I survived all that cooking - and it all turned out great! Also, my kitchen is now back to it's pre-dinner-party status - dishes cleaned and put away. So for all that I am grateful. I also appreciate all of you cheering me on. It was a fun evening. Our guests were two of my husband's boyhood friends and their wives. The guys are all in their 70's and they had fun reminiscing about the pranks and mischief they got into when they were young.

Oh - yes - I'm also very grateful that today I can rest and do nothing! Hope its a restful kind of day for all of us.