Get it?
Like - You can't touch this (oh-oh oh oh oh-oh)
Break it down (more oh's)
STOP - manner time.
Ok. Well, I thought it was witty.
Anyway, most of you know that I taught life skills to a group of twelve amazing young ladies this semester. Since I have been out 7 of the 14 classes because of travel, I wanted to do something super special for them while still teaching them a super crucial life skill.
So we had a luncheon.
THE Lovely Ladies Luncheon, that is.
This is the formal invite I sent out, with a glimpse of the image on the envelope to the right.
Rhinestones, glitter, textured cardstock - you know, the works.
The assistant teacher for the class (who is amazingly awesome) hosted the luncheon at her abode.
Each girl brought food (potluck style is probably not the fanciest, but we worked with what we had).
And I pulled out every nice dish JD and I had at our house (not to mention $1 chargers I found at Michael's that morning - oh yeah!!).
Annnd... I may have pulled most of my Christmas decorations down to create cute centerpieces for each table.
Did you notice that we put the bread rolls in Santa's sleigh?... That was a collaboration effort between a couple of my students. ;)
The girls learned how to create a centerpiece using vases, old bottles and antiques I've collected over the years for next-to-nothing at antique / thrift stores.
Side note: One of the girls put up a pic on Instagram the next day of vintage vases they found at an antique store. I was beyond-words proud. :)
We put all of the plates and silverware in the kitchen and left the chargers empty so that the girls could set their own place settings. (Hands-on experience is the best tool, right?)
Each girl set her place place setting:
Dinner plate on bottom, salad plate on top.
Forks on your left.
Remember: F-O-R-K has four letters and L-E-F-T has four letters.
Spoons and knives on your right.
Remember: S-P-O-O-N and K-N-I-F-E have five letters and R-I-G-H-T has five letters.
Size of the silverware goes from smallest on the outside to the largest on the inside.
Follow the sizes with each course (i.e. furthest fork from you is for your salad, largest fork beside your plate is your dinner fork).
Tea glasses always go to the top right of the plate.
Napkin goes in the lap.
After we went over a list of table etiquette pointers, we passed a box of cards around the table called Table Topics. My favorite question was, "At what age is someone old and how does a person stay young?"
There were a variety of answers from 17-years-old is "old" to 40-years-old to 80-years-old. My favorite answer is,
"You're only old when you begin thinking that you're old."
That's wisdom -- from a teenager.
I love it.
We finished up the afternoon with a present-wrapping and bow-making lesson where the girls dominated. I'm pretty sure they'll be giving out packages this year with stellar packaging!
What do you think about being old...
At what age is someone old and how does a person stay young?
**Thanks to Shelby for taking some of these fantastic photos!
