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Posted on 10/04/2005 9:56:41 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Four is not enough degrees...
No I make it all. It's not too bad. I can do some of it ahead of time. I like doing it anyway. It's fun to get out the Christmas China, and set the table all pretty:).
Becky
Yesterday was cold here too, but we're suppose to be in the 40's today, and near 60 tomorrow and then 50's thru the weekend. Should make for nice days, but alot depends on how much the wind blows.
Becky
That's fun.... :~D
You have enough tables and chairs? Will you have a kids table in the living room?
My dining room table expands and can hold 10 comfortably and 12 in a pinch. I'll put several kids at the kitchen table, and 2 will have to be in highchairs by their mothers, I have one, and hopefully one of the girls will bring theirs along, the infant, hopefully can sleep:), I'll have a card table for the overflow.
I've had as many as 25 for this meal, back when the kids were bringing all their friends along. I was amazed at how many kids didn't get a family Christmas dinner...really sad.
Dishes are actually what becomes and issue. My Christmas China only has 12 place settings. I hate mixing in regular china with the Christmas stuff.... I usually always put the Christmas china on the big table and the overflow gets the other. I was looking at Christmas dinnerware at Walmart the other day. They have some pretty stuff for not all that much, but then it seems silly to buy it for one meal a year. I got the stuff I have from a magazine and it was fairly inexpensive. Every salad plate pictures one of the 12 days of Christmas, and the border on the dinner plates is all holly leaves and red berries, it really makes a pretty table. But I'd like to have all the tables be festive:)....
Becky
~whew~
We don't do a sit-down dinner per se for Christmas, though Dona has in the past, I don't think she will this year. We ~might~ go up and make lefse on Friday... But only if everyone really wants to do it... not if everyone just feels like we ~have~ to do it :~D
One year everyone decided they were tired of getting together to make the capalettis and we didn't have a sit down meal that time. Oh horror!!!! we had pizza:). My dad actually got sick went out side to barf:), LOL, and the kids who weren't all that old, in their teens, whined and complained about the day not seeming special. We figured it was my mom sending a curse down for being so lazy:). Anyway it taught me that even kids rather they conciously notice the special touches or not, do appreciate them. I think it's very important to build the memories of special occasions with family. I know they don't remember each individual Christmas, but they remember that Christmas was a special time when you sat down together and had a nice meal.
I know when the time comes that I quit doing it my two will continue the tradition. I don't know if my nephews will. Neither one of their wives seems interested in learning how to make the food items that we have only for Christmas, and they always comment on why I don't use paper plates:)...LOL, and I don't even make any of them wash any of them. I just do it the next day. It will be interesting to see what happens in the future. My kids, all of them even the inlaw children, could make this meal happen even if I died tomorrow:).
Becky
That's so good for your family. I do remember the big holiday meals growing up, partly because they were always the same, we always went to the beach house grandma's, for Christmas Eve usually, not Christmas day. It's different now, and I miss that sometimes, you and I have talked about all that before, what it's like to be left with only the guys in the family - and me, I'm probably too close to the paper plate inlaws... ;~D
Wow! Good Job Big Mac! It all looks so neat and functional. I like the way the panels and feed room separate them and the way you've got a fence inside a fence. Having power and water at a barn makes a big difference too. Way to go! :o)
LOL!!! I get that all the time. My husband says my horses have it better than he does.
Sounds great. Take some pictures of the whole crew sitting around the tabel for us!
OK, altho once the eating starts we look like a bunch of starving heathens.
LOL, reminds of one Easter when my mother was alive. She always had a big Easter meal too. Anyway she and dad had got their first VCR Camera, they set it up on a tripod to film our meal. Oh my gosh. We watched it one time then earsed it. It was horrible...ROFLOL...I never saw such a thing, and it was so funny every time my mother turned her back on my dad he was salting everything on his plate:). Mom thought salt was bad for you, and tried to limit how much dad got. It was hilarious.
Becky
Thanks Frog, I can't say it enough, but Yes, I think he did a marvelous job too:)
Becky
They also sell just the dinner plates and salad plates separately in boxes of 4 so that's what I get. They also have a real pretty platter, cereal bowls, serving bowls and coffee mugs. I really like it and plan to add some more this year. You can get a box of 4 plates for about $8 after Christmas if you have a store nearby. The pattern is called Christopher Radko Traditions.
LOL!! So do we! We usually don't eat breakfast that day so we can save room for lunch, so by the time the food gets done, everybody really IS starving. Then everybody goes into a food-induced coma in front of the TV afterwards. It kinda reminds me of the Christmas song that you hear on country stations this time of year called "Merry Christmas from the Family". It's so funny.
LOL....We always wait till after we eat to open gifts, the kids had Santa at their own homes, so we all have to stay functional:).
We did that one time at my in-law's when everybody was opening up presents and it was hysterical. It looked like a dozen Tazmanian Devils loose in the place. Paper flying everywhere, kids screaming, grown-ups laughing and talking and nobody listening to anybody else. You'd think that we'd all been raised by wolves.
whistling in the dark
LOL.
I went to the grocery store to get Christmas Dinner groceries, then came home and helped Mack sort, move and stack the lumber that was left over and laying out in the pasture. Now all that is left out there is the old tin, and he will move that tomorrow, and level out some of the ground.
I'm right now doing my daily book work, then I think I'll be done for the day.
Becky
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