We spent this past holiday season at our vacation home in the sunny south. It was a very different Christmas not being surrounded by family and friends. We have only been away from our home on Christmas day on one other occasion when we took the kids south one year. It was hard then and it was hard for use to be away this past year. Prior to leaving we knew a couple of our kids would join us for the holidays but we had arranged to have our big Christmas celebration on January 22, 2011.
I kept the dinner quite traditional this year. We had turkey with stuffing (not dressing, stuffing), gravy, peas, corn, and home canned cranberry sauce. I put out freezer pickles and pickled beets in Depression glass pickle dishes. We had fully planned on making Swedish potatoes, a family favourite but we were enjoying simply being with the family so much that my husband decided to put potatoes in to bake during the last hour of the turkey roasting. We brought down the large fold-up table to adjoin the dining table so we could all sit together. In total there were 12 of us. It was a wonderful dinner filled will lots of laughter and good memories! That is what it's all about :)
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