Goomba38 wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>
>> Glad you had a good day! One champagne flute is hardly a disaster.
>> I wish I'd stayed home. The entire day was a disaster.
>>
>
> I love large family meals where I can use everything. For the first
> time yesterday I used my great-grandmother's salt cellars with the
> tiny glass spoons. We joked about Victorian coke spooons. The kids
> are already mentally divvying up my china, crystal and silver, LOL. I
> must be reaching my expiration date or something?
>
LOL I hope not! Scott used my grandma's silverware. Mom had me give him
the chest of silver a few years ago.

> Sorry your day was a bust. I need to see family more often than our
> schedules allow and while things get crazy at times we still laugh
> plenty and it is nice sharing memories. Why didn't you go to your
> boyfriend's house for dinner instead?

That would have been a 7.5 hour drive. He was busy painting in his studio.

My family just isn't that close. I'd have had more fun sitting in front of
a fire reading a book... which is how I plan to spend today It's gotten
nice and cold and I have firewood!