1950s Style

For the three of you dear readers out there who we don't see every Friday, I'm sure you've read here about Cocktail Hour, which we do every Friday. For an hour (or two, or five) every Friday after work, our families gather over wine, cocktails, juice boxes, rotel dip and frozen pizza. The kids run wild while the adults continue to develop our uncanny abilities to hold intelligent conversations while blocking out the din of our maniac children.

I've always thought of this tradition as kind of a throwback to earlier times, when people developed traditions, and when people slowed down enough to sit around a table and chat for a few hours.

This week, it felt like even more of a throwback-- since Kristy had to chaperone her school's prom, she had on a prom dress (which is really just a cocktail dress for kids who can't legally drink yet). The rest of us dressed up too (well, most of us)-- just like in the 1950s, when you just randomly dressed up whenever you visited someone else's house. Honestly, did you ever see Ward Cleaver or Rob Petrie without a tie? And didn't Lucy Ricardo always have on an awesome cocktail dress?