This Week's Etiquette: Welcoming the Newcomers

We've got newcomers in the neighborhood! I wrote up the welcome letter as soon as I heard and set aside cupcakes from Allie's party to deliver. I was even going to wrap them all pretty to match my stationary. I was feeling so Bree Van de Camp and loooving it! But Chad, bless his heart, made the frosting and, well, my cupcakes weren't very presentable after that. Then I just went on with life and forgot. Shame on me! I'm trying to make my grandmother proud and this does not help. Referring to the etiquette book only made me feel more guilty:

This is long but sooo worth it. I'm italicizing the most important parts.

CALLS ON NEWCOMERS
"This is one of the most widely made calls today in many country and suburban areas. When newcomers move into the house down the road, after giving them a few days to get settled, it is neighborly and friendly to drop in to say hello. Although it's thoughtful to take some small gift of food-some jelly or pickles you've made, for instance-it is not in any way necessary. As with all calls, the middle of the afternoon or early evening is the best time to make calls on newcomers, and you should stay only a few minutes-half an hour at the most. You shouldn't expect refreshments on such a call, by the way. If the housewife is obviously overburdened with hanging curtains or scrubbing woodwork, don't even sit down. Just tell her at the door who you are, and that you just wanted to say hello and welcome her to the community, and ask her over to your house for tea or a drink if you feel like it. She should, properly speaking, return the call within a week or two, even if you don't issue a specific invitation. You may then continue the relationship or not, as you want. You, by the way, as the established member of the community would properly be the first to issue a dinner or party invitation.
In the city, however, calls on newcomers are seldom made. Even if you live in the same apartment building, it doesn't follow that you'll have any contact more intimate than sharing the elevator with the people moving in on the floor below, so there's no reason to call on them.
A woman usually doesn't call on a bachelor, even in a community where newcomer calls are standard. Instead, if she wants to be neighborly, she should invite him to her house by note or phone."

OH yeah, so you can still invite the hot new bachelor over!
I love that I don't have to really stay their friend.
And, a drink?!? Soooo vogue, but not happening in my neck of the woods, not even tea, really. There's always homemade lemonade? Just as wonderful.

I'm off to make pickles now. See you soon newcomers!