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On Labor Day, we threw a community Pancake Breakfast. Karisa and I had been talking with our good friends Joe and Keane who live in the same complex. We decided that we'd like to get to know our neighbors and build some real community. So we threw a free pancake breakfast. Karisa gathered the food. Joe cooked. Keane made posters. I don't really know what I did, look at Joe in action:
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We had regular, strawberry, blueberry and chocolate chip pancakes. I, of course, followed my golden rule: any opportunity to have chocolate in the morning, take it!
There was a pretty good turn out for our first community event. We had about 18 people or so. Lots of kids that I had gotten to know came with family (moms or grandmoms). We had a few people come that none of us knew before too, which is great.
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(This is Lynne and Keith. Lynne is the grandmother of three beautiful girls that live in the complex. Their parents weren't able to make it unfortunately. Keith is an 8th grader at the local middle school. He's into art.)
We're planning a community BBQ for later this month. I hope and expect even more people as we had a number of people say "Oh, you did that? I would have come if I'd known it was you."
The picnic table turned up broken that morning, but I cobbled it back together enough to do our cooking on. We borrowed this electric griddle from a neat family at Resurrection, the Carlson.
We set up a few extra tables so everyone would have a place to sit:
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One of the kids in our community, Garrett, was there. Karisa and I have helped watch him sometimes when his mom is at work. He's pretty cute.
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2 comments:
that's such a great idea! i want to do that, but i don't know if my roommates would be into it. or if orange countians would be into it.
you definitely would need to consider "upping the ante." Maybe you could get a celebrity sponsor. That'd help.
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