Entertaining

You know, it occurs to me today that there is a big difference between having friends over, and entertaining.

Every Saturday we have friends over. We don't worry how clean the house is. We feed them pizza, or somethign we cook, or leftovers. I've evn fed these guys my turkey burrito slop. And they come and game with us and help us clean up the mess they'd have left.

Tommorrow, we are entertaining. Today the house is being cleaned top to bottom, tonight the kitchen will be buzzing with cooking going on as we prepare for the people that we've invited to our "casual" event.

The only difference is the addition of two people, both of whom would be welcome at the having friends over event.

So why the difference? I'm really not sure. Entertaining feels like the anxious feelings my mom would spread around the hosue whenever my aunt was coming over. Like we were all going to be judged and we knew we'd be found wanting.

Personally, I'd rather have friends over.