Stefani Had a "Dinner Party"??

I had Lynn, Linda and Betsy over for dinner last night.

Savory Chicken Crescents

Nantz, 2005

2 cups cubed chicken breast, browned with salt, pepper and garlic powder

3 oz cream cheese

3 TB butter or margarine, divided, melted

1 TB chives

¼ cup chopped onions

1 pkg Crescent Rolls

Using a mixer or whisk, blend cream cheese, butter, chives and onions. Fold in browned, cubed chicken.

Unroll the Crescent rolls, separating into 4 rectangles. Press the seams of the two triangles together to secure each rectangle.

Place an equal amount of chicken mixture in the center of each rectangle. Fold the 4 corners together, making a little present of each one.

Brush the top of each one with melted butter and sprinkle with bread crumbs or crushed croutons.

Bake in a 350 degree oven for about 20-25 minutes until slightly golden brown.

Serves 4.

It was Lynn's birthday and this is the card I made for her that we all signed. The dragonfly is stamped with bleach (using the Clorox Bleach Pen) and those are my beloved crystals on the dragonfly.

It's been so hot and humid, with the possibility of rain, that I had Steve and Simon bring the deck furniture into the dining room and we ate in there, in air conditioned comfort. But before dinner, we sat on the deck, drank wine and ate Betsy's fruit & dip.

After dinner we went in the hot tub. It's not as much fun when the air temperature is so warm but it was fun to experience it together. They seemed to like it and made me promise to invite them back in January!

Then we ate the Heath Bar Ice Cream Pie that Linda brought. I even shared it with Simon, Steve, Lizz and Erick who returned from their various Friday night engagements. There is one piece leftover which I shall split with Steve after breakfast. At least I hope it's still there . . . .

I was going to have Steve take a picture of us in the hot tub but we had such fun all night, I forgot about pictures altogether. We agreed we talked about our kids too much but it's hard not to at this time of year. Lynn and Betsy both have a child graduating high school this year. Linda's daughter and Lynn's other son are home from college. Linda shared stories about her son and his car, when I talked about Simon and his woes.

With graduation parties and going off to college and Japan (in Lynn's son's case), we decided we won't get together until September. But Lynn is really good at coming up with ideas for things to do so we're going to get a ticket package to Geva Theatre - looking at going to matinees and then out to dinner. And we're going to go to the Public Market one Saturday morning, then go out to lunch. These are all things I know I could ask Steve to do with me, but it's not his thing so I don't - so now I'll get to do them! (I would do these things by myself, btw, I don't mind, but it's more fun with someone so I just don't think of them, I guess.)

So we'll probably go to Betsy's house in September - and Linda's house in October. Linda lives in Naples, which is beautiful in the fall, due to the foothills full of colorful trees.

We have plans! I love these women - and I say this every time - I'm so glad we reconnected, about a year ago now - prior to our 30th high school reunion. I told them last night that someone at work asked me about my weekend plans so I told them about dinner and how we've been getting together since our 30th reunion. But I thought I misspoke, because that number can't be right. Shit, it is! We can't figure out how we have been out of high school for 30 years. I still want to recheck the math on that....