Christmas tips!

[shootingstar]

I don't get it . ...I like Christmas. I always have. And I'm not religious at all.

And this so-called stress that some people experience before/during Christmas..I'm lost. I've always found Christmas Eve and Christmas Day just lovely and pleasant. Some years, I have hosted my family at my home when I lived in the same city as they. That's over 15 people..sitting in the living rm. including on the floor and eating ..usually a potluck dinner. When a family is that big, it must be potluck. Otherwise it truly is stressful. Yea sure it took me several hrs. just to prepare 2-3 dishes as a hostess and then the cleanup afterwards. But I only did it once in a year, if that. And when I or someone else hosted it, it was usually several days before Christmas Eve.

We're not a family of fine china dishes, silverware and crystal, so any family megameal...is just a more informal.

I view Christmas something like Chinese New Year's, a time to get together with family/close friends, enjoy each other's company and eat foods that you normally wouldn't eat often. Even better, Christmas gives us a statutory holiday.