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Thanksgiving & Christmas Dinner My family has outgrown my dining table/room (seats 10). A couple of times, we put two card tables in there and seated 22/23. That makes it so tight, nobody can move around and I have to be up and down refilling plates since I usually do a buffet. I want to move the tables to the den and have dinner in there, but hubby doesn't like that idea. Guess I probably need to have the smaller kids eat in the kitchen (seats 8). How/where do you serve Thanksgiving & Christmas dinner? |
Buffet on the kitchen counter and folding tables in the living room. When you grow up with 25 people on each side of the extended family (lots of cousins) you just get used to splitting up. It's no big deal!!! |
We do it in my house or my godmother's house on a big, long table. Not everyone fits at the table so we are scattered all over lol but we always pray together, etc |
We have a table in the breakfast nook that seats 6 cozy. Enough for the adults. The 3 grands love their counter & stools in the kitchen that we built in just for them or they gather around the coffee table in the LR. My sisters kids are teens and they're happiest in front of the TV, on the computer or with us. The food & desert is on the counters and stove & we're kind of all over the place. But we pray together, use cloth napkins & grandma's china & the gold flatware. Elegance & chaos.....welcome to my holiday world. |
We have it at my apartment. Its Me, My sister, Her fiancee, My Mom and her friend Mom leaves everything on the stove and counter top and I have a dining room table that seats 2 and i have wooden dinner trays we can eat on the couch. or find chairs to all eat at the table... it's not too bad for us. |
we go over my mom's house, it's funny we eat in shifts, my sister and her family eat first, and my husband and I and Micah eat second ( since were always late anyways), so it works out fine, and the kids will eat in my mom's bedroom and watch cartoons, its crazy but it works... then the men will go in the livingroom with my dad and watch football while the woman clean up, now i don't think that's fair.... :( |
Last Thanksgiving we had about 25 people over + 4 dogs and a cat. We actually set up three seperate tables, one in the dining room, one in the kitchen, and one in the living room. Had the buffet set up in the living room, we used the giant chaffing dishes from Sam's Club never had to refill and had tons of leftovers. The downstairs turned into the "dogs space" and big kids entertainment with at the time the new XBOX 360. Upstairs bedrooms turned into the little kids space with toys in one room and disney movies in another. That was the first year we ever had that many people over, and this year we are just going out to eat or going to someone elses house. LOL! |
Well, for my DH's side, that is a big family (he is the only child, but the WHOLE family gets together on holidays)...they rent a room somewhere...one year, it was a lodge, one year, it was the community center, etc. This works out well...not very "homey", but for all those people (we are talking over 50), it works out nicely. For my family....on either side (mom/dad) it just depends on the year. Normally, they have it at someone's house and people are scattered everywhere eating....They both have 6 bros/sisters, so the table at each house is full of them and their spouses...everyone else is either squeezed in or in the living room, den, etc. |
I always set up a buffet on the kitchen counter, and then we eat in the dining room or wherever we can find a place to sit. |
At my mother in laws, food is usually spread on the stove, counters, kitchen table. Everyone grabs a plate, helps themselves, and sits wherever they can find a place - some in the dining room, some in the living room, some even sit out on the front porch. At my grandmother's house its a different story. She always has a fancy sit-down-and-be-on-your-very-best-behavior-or-you-will-damn-sure-hear-about-it-until-next-year type of dinner. There is one big dining room table (seats 10) and then she rents two smaller ones. |
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