This Saturday's Small Group

Today we had our get-together with the Friskneys and the Webers that we had planned for last Saturday. We were going to meet in Shelbyville last Saturday, but the snow kept us home. Today we used the gift certificates Friskneys gave us for Christmas to meet for lunch/dinner in Mason, since Webers were already in town this weekend to celebrate granddaughter Nora's 2nd birthday.
We sat at the restaurant (Applebee's) for probably a couple of hours and then adjourned to our house for birthday cake from Kroger's and decaf and ice cream. It was a belated celebration for Sev and Bill whose birthdays happened at the end of January.

We laughed and caught up on each other's family and talked about everything from our various work situations to why bars are better places for genuine bonding than what so many people experience through their churches. We decided that much of what people say SHOULD happen in a small group happens among longtime Christian friends like us--without programming or a curriculum.
We hope to meet again soon--we've put March 16 on our calendars (although I have a tentative trip that needs to happen sometime in March but isn't scheduled yet. We'll see.).

I snapped this picture of our table setting before we left for the
restaurant. We used some of the vintage plates that we had gathered
for Jennifer's wedding.