Last Saturday I asked for your fabulous or frugal baby shower ideas, and boy, did y’all deliver! 38 suggestions, all stacked nice and pretty on Grandma’s best silver tray. The links and comments are ALL so interesting–and not a tacky {read more}

Who doesn’t love a baby shower?  (If you omit the traditional measuring of the belly with toilet paper, that is!) It couldn’t be easier to throw a sweet shower for your favorite mama-to-be, whether it’s her first baby… …or {read more}

Is everyone else throwing the lavish cocktail parties I see in magazines?  Most of our family entertaining is on the run: breakfast brought for co-workers birthdays in the park dinners for a new mom Martha Stewarts of the Net, just overlook our humble {read more}

I feel strongly that hospitality should not be limited to the home. Last year I shared my fears of the homeless around the downtown library.  My instinct is to shield my children from possible danger. My heart said it was even worse to do nothing while {read more}

I’ve been researching the indoor party centers in my area, and I’m blown away by the cost per child!  So long, Chuck E. Cheese. Hello, Digiorno! What do you do when you have a cold or rainy birthday, and not enough money to rent out the {read more}

I was over 30 before I had a dining room.  Until then, we tucked a small round table in the kitchen or a corner of the living room. That entertaining excuse was one of my favorites: I can’t possibly have people over.  They don’t even have {read more}

  “My house isn’t nice enough for entertaining.  I can barely get it clean, let alone have time to cook!” It’s spring!  Who wants to sit inside, anyway? Overcome this all-too-common entertaining excuse with a picnic outside {read more}