Tonight we hosted an event at our home for approximately 60 women from our neighborhood. This event is held once a year and it\u2019s called our \u201cFavorite Things\u201d night.\u00a0 Each woman brings a favorite thing to share, then we sit in a large circle and go around the room and have each woman share with us the favorite thing she brought.\u00a0 Some women brought a favorite recipe to share, some women brought their favorite hair product to share, some women brought a favorite book to share, etc.\u00a0 We all learn great ideas from one another that we can use in our own lives.\u00a0 It\u2019s an event that the women in the neighborhood look forward to every year.<\/p>\n
The event was supposed to be held in our backyard and we had a dinner and dessert bar all staged out as to where it would go and we prepared the yard to be perfect for our guests.\u00a0 Then this morning we woke up to rain. Not just a little rain\u2026crazy rain!\u00a0 Lightning and thunder and even hail balls this morning.\u00a0 It was absolutely nuts.\u00a0 As we watched throughout the day, waiting to setup until the rain stopped, we finally got to the point where we realized that we needed a plan B because it was soaked outside.\u00a0 We had waited until the last minute to make a final decision on what to do because we just kept hoping the rain would stop.\u00a0 Finally we decided we couldn\u2019t wait any longer and we decided to start setting up in the basement basketball court since that was the only area we could all fit together.\u00a0 It felt like an impossible thing to get everything ready in time for the event since we had waiting so long to do it.\u00a0 But then women on the committee that planned the event all started arriving and everything started moving at lightning speed (no pun intended \ud83d\ude42 ).\u00a0 We setup 60 chairs in the basement and we got the tables setup and the food started getting hauled down when lo and behold the rain stopped.<\/p>\n
We were now down to less than an hour before the women were going to arrive. But we decided as a team that we wanted to move the event back to the backyard as we originally intended so we all grabbed everything and started hauling it all back upstairs to set it up there.\u00a0 Watching this group of women work was nothing short of amazing.\u00a0 I swear if you have a group of dedicated ladies there is absolutely nothing they can\u2019t accomplish together.\u00a0 By the time the first guest arrived they had the backyard all decorated, the food buffet all setup and a darling dessert table with hand-picked apples and caramel and chocolate and all kinds of toppings to roll them in.\u00a0 It was absolutely darling.\u00a0 They even had water bottles with bows tied around them holding each napkin and plasticware and straw to the side of the water bottle so the women could grab it and carry it easier to their chair.\u00a0 It was absolutely darling.\u00a0 I mean it was perfectly staged and decorated and the food was delicious. This team of women along with the help of my husband and one of the other neighbor’s husband were awesome at pulling off this event.<\/p>\n
All I am really trying to say here is that when you have a team of people with a purpose that they care about they can literally pull off anything.\u00a0 I think that is the key \u2013 they have to have a purpose and they have to care about it.\u00a0 All of us involved tonight cared about making this event special for the ladies in the neighborhood.\u00a0 We knew that the event would strengthen bonds between people and help friendships to grow and we wanted to make things amazing for everyone so there wasn\u2019t anything, not even crazy rainstorms, that could stop us from doing what we set out to do.\u00a0 And thank heavens the end result tonight was incredible.\u00a0 The event was perfect, the sky stayed clear and everyone had a great time.<\/p>\n
The next time you have something big to pull off surround yourself with a team of amazing people (which needs to include lots of women because let\u2019s face it, women are just amazing!) who will care about the purpose you are trying to achieve.\u00a0 Then get to work and make miracles happen!!<\/p>\n
Have a great night everyone.<\/p>\n
~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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