The Catch-y Caterer LLC

14/05/2025

first communion season
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26/04/2025

a well stocked bar. a perfectly selected specialty drink. an exceptionally talented bartender
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the best parties have it all: food, staff, decor & a cocktail that will knock your socks off
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let catchy. cater your spring & summer soirees. and choose what kind of bar you want to dazzle your guests with. we can concoct the drinks, shake them up and pour them til the wee hours of the night
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service. food. and a perfect bevy. all of that and more, it’s kind of our jam
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15/04/2025

throwing a grad party this june?
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yup. who isn’t? these kids just keep MATRICULATINGGGGG
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between middle school, high school and college, we’ve already got 28 on the books for june and july.
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you want sliders? 🍔 flatbreads? 🍕 chicken finger bars? 🍗 specialty drinks 🍹all the foods these grads love? call us now. our calendar is filling up.
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18/03/2025

25/02/2025

there are moments when the grind subsides. the hard slows to a crawl and the exhausting moments of parenthood feel manageable. the early years felt so hard to me: the waking early to a crying baby. the monotony of that obnoxious elmo DVD. wiping away their tears or the sadness of their pulling out of your driveway. parenthood can just be such a grind when they are young that you wonder how you’ll handle it forever. and then forever is over and you see the clearing
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people would say: “you think they are hard now, wait until they’re older. big kids, big problems.” i wanted to smack those people. i was exhausted and lonely now. how would i handle more? turns out. those f*ckers were wrong
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problems are problems. and when you have them, they rarely feel small. so when my little kids were getting bullied by the class s**t head or didn’t get the starting position, the problems felt so daunting to a mom trying to handle it alone. and now that they are older? somehow they just feel less scary. and that grind? it’s morphed into WONDER that this life, with these four, could have possibly become this good
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an impromptu trip to see my guy❤️ turned into a flight for 2. then 4. with a sidecar of flying in from college to join. no vacation, not a holiday, just all my kids, wanting to join me for a visit to their grandmothers for some laughter and sunshine. even just a year ago this trip was harder. but the older they have grown, the more the love between them has solidified into friendships and bonds that draw them to each other and their relatives any chance they get
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a game of pickleball turned into the opportunity to once again, see the humans they have become. teachers. hype squaders. s**t talkers. athletes in their own rights. they played with their aunt and uncle (recent club champs) and held their own both athletically and conversationally in a way i’m not sure i ever thought we would get to. they have just finally, i don’t know, arrived as the people i always hoped they would be to one another. family is such a beautiful thing. so grateful for mine
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27/01/2025

do we know how to cater a st patty’s day party?? does an irishman enjoy a pint??
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book your st patrick’s day soirée with us. our food will knock your little irish knickers off
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24/01/2025

every event is special. but sometimes you bring together a certain group of people, and the magic happens. and what’s more spectacular? when you realize you don’t always have to be part of it
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five years ago, i thought i had to be at every event to create the magic. i didn’t have a team of people i believed i could rely on, so i insisted on micromanaging everything and everyone. lord, it was exhausting. emotionally and physically
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it took some time, some work on learning to delegate, and even more work on accepting humility, to discover choosing the right teams and letting them rise can be just as, if not more effective than trying to do it all yourself. man, self awareness for the WIN 🙌🏻
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created a space and vibe for this bridal shower that warmed up a 15 degree day. and her amazing camera work joined my epic staff of chefs and hustling servers to capture the love and celebration. all while i was 200 miles away cheering for my youngest while she spiked winners against her opponents. i got the opportunity to be present in my most important job because i let go. doing your work can be so satisfying
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these pictures remind me that, while i know i’m pretty terrific at what i do (okay, still working on that humility🤩), i don’t always have to be the one doing it. the dishes don’t always have to go in the dishwasher my way. the signs and set ups don’t always look better because i arranged them. taking care of myself while allowing others to shine just makes everything work better. because running around on fumes doesn’t create magic, it creates inevitable collapse. and i’m in it for the long haul. i want to be catering catchy. events for the next decade while i love on my family and enjoy my life. so take a page from my book: ask for help and take it when it’s offered. no one likes a hero
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09/01/2025

we are closed every day at 4pm until we can fill this position!! if you have any intel or leads, please dm me as soon as possible! as always, open for catering while we sit and pray…
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04/01/2025

may 23rd, 1993. my freshman year. it was overtime in the national championship game with just 2 minutes left to play. 3 times the game had been called on account of lightning. each time we went into the locker room, we had a lead. each time, somehow, we squandered it. we were down 7-6 . only way to stay alive was to break the stall the university of virginia was running, intercept the ball and score. it came down to one opportunity
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the ball was hurled down towards my goal to cherie greer. all american. usa team member. superstar. i saw my chance as clear as if someone wrote the script for me. i could have easily recovered the ball for my team. but i hesitated. i doubted myself. i didn’t believe i was good enough to do what i had done all season long to get us here, and in that split second, the cavaliers legendary attacker put the final nail in the coffin ripping a shot past me to make it 8-6 in OT. i can remember the feeling of shame as though it was this morning
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all summer long, i ran my training runs with that memory driving me. if we could get back to the final game, and i was ever in the position to make a play happen rather than sit back in fear, i would damn well do it. every single mile i logged, that was the prevailing thought. when a goal is in reach, hit the gas pedal and accelerate. just twelve months later, we were holding the golden trophy over our heads, covered in champagne, champions. it was glorious
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i’ve had a goal in mind for catchy. since the day we opened our doors. i never dreamed it was possible but i wrote it in my journal every day as though it had already happened. last year, we missed that goal by 1/10 of 1%. it was so close i could taste it. this year, this year we accelerated past it on december 6th with 93 events left in the month. BOOM💥. that’s the thing about believing in yourself, all it takes is a focus, drive and the right team around you and you can accomplish anything
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2024, you were our best year yet. but 2025? yeah 2025, we are coming for you
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05/12/2024

one year . who would have thought we would be celebrating 365 days?? of all the men in the world, i couldn’t have guessed how perfectly your heart would line up with mine. i simply didn’t think this kind of love was possible. but you believed it until i caught up. i am ever so grateful for your faith
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there aren’t words to accurately describe how differently i feel about love with you. i would hear people share about loving their “best friend” and talking until the sun came up, i just didn’t get it. what was wrong with me that i couldn’t find that? i figured i was destined to live out my days in another mediocre relationship because there was something missing in me. maybe i just wasn’t lovable. and then you showed up on my (virtual) doorstep, and everything i ever believed about myself was deconstructed
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i was lonely my whole life until you. I couldn’t find connection. now? everything, absolutely everything is better with you. you listen, you buoy, you shoulder, you hype; you are the funniest freaking person i’ve ever met. you are the first person i want to share my stuff with and the last call face i want to see every night. you are an incredible human and an even better dad, your kids are so lucky to have you. i have watched you transform yourself in every possible way these last twelve months: boundaries, health, relationships, you name it. you have committed to making yourself a better man. it is the sexiest thing in the world to watch someone fall in love with themself. i hope you are proud, because i am. who wouldn’t fall for a person with your heart?
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i love you scotto. here’s to another 30 years of laughing our asses off. you make me absurdly happy.
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01/12/2024

nine years ago we opened our doors. december 1st marks nearly a decade. man, i could drive a truck through what little i knew then about business ownership and what i know today. amazing what time will do
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when people ask how long catchy. has been in business, i tend to deflect with a tongue in cheek: “nine years but it feels like two decades.” but the reality is, it does. two decades of hustle. two decades of uncertainty. two decades of love and loss. two decades of fear. two decades of learning curves and growth. and two decades with this family of mine
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catchy. has always been about food and family. good flavors and wonderful people, two of my favorite things. to be honest, i never really knew much about the first, but growing up with four siblings and thirty cousins in my hometown, i certainly had a line on the second. i knew what kind of people i wanted to surround myself with to achieve the level of success i was aiming for, who worked best with others, what type of employee would grind when it was needed and who the most diligent and responsible ones were to trust with my books. little by little, we weeded out the dead weight and landed on this catchy. family that is absolutely everything to me. they carried me and mine through my divorce, they dug in when covid hit, and they stuck around for the miracle that is 2024.
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we did it: we achieved the goal i set for us the day i moved my kids from our home and took the road that represented failure to me at the time. what i didn’t know then was that humbling path would teach me everything i needed to know about how to be a success in business: sometimes you have to lose something to learn the lessons that will catapult you past the goal line. i found the best people stick around for the miracle. laura, luba, fredo, maureen, kyra, helen, harrison, natalie, and dozens more who i work side by side with every week: you ARE catchy. none of this happens without you. so grateful
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23/11/2024

see that smile? that was happiness
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eight years old. paling around with my big sis at a pumpkin patch. biking the mean streets of cedar grove until the street lights kicked on or we were summoned home by dad’s whistle. not a lick of pressure in my life
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in one year, i would have changed schools (moving from the local public to the bougie private one my parents could now afford), lost my neighborhood friends, be drowning in an academic world i couldn’t keep up with. and i had lost that smile and all the joy inside me it represented
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from that one transition, i went from authentic me to an imposter. insecure. uncomfortable in my own skin. i didn’t know who i was or was supposed to be. i had lost my mojo as the best girl athlete (albeit in her whopping class of 13) the one always picked first and bringing home 100’s on her tests, and my self esteem began it’s descent to a rock bottom it would hit somewhere around august 2012 (the 7th to be exact). through my college years at a university i felt like i didn’t belong at because i’d been admitted for sports rather than brain power. as a mom of four struggling to keep my head above water and smile with a partner who didn’t want the same things i did. my disappointment in myself for not making better choices haunted me until one day, the walls came crashing down. we can only go so far before we bounce. and that was the end of the ride for me
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the funny thing? i found myself in another pursuit i’d first felt like an imposter in: cooking. what did i know about rouxs and braising? so i went to cooking school to find the confidence to open my own business. and then i found my people, one by one starting with . we stood side by side, laughing, sharing without fear of judgement, me learning who i wanted to be as a mom, a partner, a business woman. then lu and laura and all the amazing catchy. people who would follow. and that imposter lessened as i recovered that happy, determined, competitive little girl and channeled her to find my purpose again
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remember who you once were and keep a piece of her. life will knock you around and leave its dents and dings, but you are in there. stay real
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