Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to everyone! Enjoy this day with your family, friends and all that wonderful food I know you have prepared. Remember this day is not about the gifts but the wonderful memories you create being together and more importantly, the birth of Jesus Christ. Tomorrow is not promised so cherish today!
Everyone is coming to my house today. I have decided not to make a gigantic meal but instead to have an afternoon of appetizers. We are having shrimp cocktail, potato skins, veggie tray, three types of sausage, cheese and crackers, salsa with Scoops, taco dip, sausage crescent rolls, Swedish meatballs, ham sandwiches and cookies. I did something different this year and asked each family to bring an appetizer. This will be the easiest Christmas ever!
Merry Christmas,
Diane
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Merry Christmas, Diane!
Thank you Amanda and Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas, Diane! Wishing you, your loved ones, and your followers peace and joy through the remainder of this year, and so many blessings in the new year. πβ¨
Thank you so much Katie. Right back at ya lady! Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas Diane!ππ π
Thank you Susan! Happy New Year to you and your family!
And to you, Diane!
Thank you Beth!
Merry Christmas and have a great day
It was a wonderful Christmas, thank you! Have a Happy New Year!
That’s a great idea having others bring food. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas full of blessings!!
Thanks Michelle! I thought it was too but my son brought the crackers and forgot the cheese. My daughter showed up 2 hours after we ate and we missed out on the veggie tray……kids! Then my 90 year old mother in law brings 3 appetizers. They could learn from her! Hahahahaha Luckily I made so much it really didn’t matter. We had tons of leftovers. I hope your Christmas was as wonderful as ours.
Address please, I’ll be right over. Dog friendly?
Absolutely, love dogs!
Merry Xmas Diane
Thank you Sheree! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas!
I did and I hope you did likewise!
Sounds great! Hope you have a wonderful time. Merry Christmas! PS. I’m doing your recent sprouts recipe right now π
I wish I had some more! Groceries Tuesday and they are on my list! Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas!
Thank you and Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas π
Thank you and Happy New Year!
A buffet of appetizers sounds perfect to me! Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Thank you and Happy New Year!
I agree with the sentiment – Merry Christmas Diane … your ornaments are so cute!
Thank you Linda! One is from my mom and the other from my aunt that recently passed away. They gave them to me last year.
Merry Christmas I love that pic!
Thank you they are special ornaments that were given to me last Christmas from family.
Yes. Awwww
Enjoy your day Diane. Merry Christmas!
Thank you Catherine it was a wonderful Christmas! Happy New Year to you and your family!
Merry Christmas!
Thanks so much Kathy! Happy New Year!
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Love this!!! You’re welcome!
love the idea of appetizers for Christmas! One year, my parents were in Colorado, we had shrimp and fixings to go with it for Thanksgiving dinner back here in MD. The year before my dad passed away we had breakfast for Christmas dinner – buttermilk blueberry pancakes (homemade), sausage, bacon, and scrambled eggs.
Hope you have a merry Christmas!
I love the idea of breakfast for Christmas dinner. When my kids were young that was always my husbands special breakfast thing he did. We opened gifts and then he made and cleaned up a huge breakfast. What a wonderful memory of your last Christmas with your Dad.
Merry Christmas. I LOVE those ornaments. Have a great time with your guests. It still sounds fabulous. π
Thank you it was a rare holiday that we were all together!
Those are the one where most of the memories are made. π
Merry Christmas to you as well. π
Thank you and Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to you as well. π
Merry Christmas Diane!
Thank you Nancy I hope you had a wonderful Christmas! Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones
Thank you Mags and Happy New year!
Happy New Year to you!
Look at you… with your blown glass kitchen utensils and appliances. Lovely!
Thanks they were gifts.
Ahhh, and you keep the tags on… LOL… Plan on selling them and want them to retain their value? I say Enjoy. The tags were not meant to remain on… says the woman who kept all boxes and packaging for 31 years worth of Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments – but I overcame and gave the whole collection away to a friend. Just STUFF!
Yes these two ornaments are special because one is from my mom and the other from my aunt who passed away recently. They were both thoughtful Christmas gifts last year. I just gave about 250 Beanie Babies away to under privileged children for Christmas. I have no idea if they were rare and worth anything but I am cleaning out my STUFF too! Boy does it feel good!
I did that two years ago after reading a book titled “A Year with Less”… Or “The Year with Less”
Sounds weird but after in littering my home by about 1/3, it was even easier to breathe. The space was uplifting. Little did I know I was actually making way for my business 18 months early.
And well worth it. In 5 years you will be renting office space or a store because of your success!
Hopefully neither of those. My goal is to always work from home and have 3, poss 4 employees also working from their own homes, that I can visit once a week, delivering supplies and picking up stock. In Newfoundland… On my own until then… for next 15 tob18 months.
Inventory on the weekend while laptop is in the shop revving up.
YESSSSSS! You can hire me and come to Ohio once a week to visit me! I’ll make lunch! π€£ππ€£ππ€£
Merry Happy to you and your family as well! I hope your day was wicked good!
Yes it was Matt!!!! I hope yours was even more wicked good!!!
Merry Christmas, Diane! πβ€οΈπ
Thank you Patty! Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas Diane β€οΈ
Thank you Andrada and Happy New Year to you!!!
Sounds like a wonderful day with family and great food! Merry Christmas, Diane!
Thank you it really was a Merry Christmas! Happy New Year to you and your family Patty!
Happy new year to you and your family as well, Diane!
Love the tree ornaments…how perfect for you!
They sure are! They were gifts for Christmas last year and I just love them, Thank you Laurel! Happy New Year!
What great ornaments! Merry Christmas to you too!
Thank you they mean so much to me as my aunt that recently passed and my mom each gave me one last year. Happy New Year!
And a very Happy New Year to you as well!
Great idea. I could easily make a full meal of appetizers. Easy, yummy, and flavorful!
Thank you and Happy New Year!
I love an afternoon of appetizers instead of a big dinner!! π
It’s always so much fun. That is what my husband and I usually do on New Years Eve too.
Sounds wonderful!! π½
Love those measuring cups!! π
Thanks! They were a gift from my aunt who recently passed away so they are very special to me.
so they really are keepers
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Oh how fun to just do a sort of appetizer pot luck. π Those ornaments are the cutest!
Yes the appetizers made it so easy and gave me more time to be with my family instead of the kitchen. The ornaments were gifts from my mom and aunt last year. They are so special to me. Thank you!
Aw yay <3 nothing better than more time with family & those ornaments are definitely special!
Merry Christmas!ππΌππ
Thanks Jess!
You’re welcome!
I hope you had a great Christmas and will have a wonderful new year.
At Christmas dinner, several of us were reminiscing on what was traditional Christmas food in our youth. Perhaps a little like you, my mother grew tired of the work of a big meal after all the bustle of Christmas; she would put out a buffet rather than having a formal meal.
That’s what I did for Thanksgiving. I made almost all my food the day before and put everything in warmers and crockpots on Thanksgiving. I have a grandson that just turned 1 in October and I hardly get to see him. I wanted to spend time with my family, not cooking in the kitchen. You have a Happy New Year!!!
Happy Belated Christmas to you, Diane. I love your kitchen tree ornaments, especially the bling-y mixmaster.
Awww thank you! That is just like my Kitchen Aide Mixer. Both ornaments were given to me last year by family. Happy New Year!!!
I love those little Christmas ornaments! It’s funny you said about trying something different, we decided next year to do Italian. We did that a few years ago and some of the older relatives complained (no turkey) but we decided to try again next year!
All the best to you and yours in the New Year, Diane.
Italian would work for me too!! The older people like tradition. Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!! I wish you all the best!!
Thank you so much Sue! Happy New Year to you and your friends and family too!
Great idea to get everyone to bring an appetizer because you donβt have to do everything & can enjoy all your company.
I thought so too but then my son forgot the cheese tray but remembered the crackers and my daughter showed up with the veggie tray after we ate most of the food! π€£ππ€£ππ€£π And everyone wonders why I do everything myself!
The imperfections of the holidays. I try to not let those little things bother me anymore. Just not worth the stress. Got to love our kids. π₯°
We had so much fun with my son. He blamed his wife, she blamed him. We all joked about how good cheese would have tasted. The next day my daughter in law took a picture of the cheese and sent it to me….lol Years ago it would have bothered me. Now that I’m older nothing bothers me. It makes life so much easier! Yes, we have to love them, we are all human.
So glad to hear you had fun! Love the βhe said, she saidβ. All you can do is joke about it. Life is too darn short to be serious & stressed over little things.
Merry Christmas, with a huge delay, dear Diane!
Also, in advance I am going to wish you a Happy New Year, Full of fulfillment and joy!
Take care! π²
Thank you Katherine! I wish you and your family the very best in the new year!
Those ornaments are darling and perfect for the chef or baker! Hope you enjoyed your Christmas! I love the idea of trying something different with doing appetisers. Thanks for sharing Diane! Blessings for 2020, Joy
Thank you for your kind words Joy. Christmas was wonderful & I hope yours was too. Both ornaments were given to me as gifts last year from family. I love them…of course they are cooking related. lol Have a healthy and Happy New Year!