Fabulous Holiday Fun
Dec. 18th, 2005 12:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grinninfooleMillari and I are going to bed now, after throwing a very successful
Christmas party. Many people came over the evening and it seemed
that most, if not all, had a very good time.
Our guests included: MAMEd and his lovely wife Holiday and their daughters, Lefty and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fuschia , St. Whatserface and Brian, The Destroyer, reverendtom and ionia_dreaming , sydneycat and [Bad username or unknown identity:
]morlock, soulstorage ,the
pazza ragazza and her friend the enemy of obscurity (unlike these
aliases I'm choosing to use), more than we actually expected. We
barely had enough room for us all.
Activities included singing carols, making ornaments (which now grace our tree), pulling christmas crackers and surprising M & H's eldest daughter with a birthday cake.
Food included: the birthday cake, with homemade frosting courtesy of Millari, a key lime pie and flan (also Millari), chiles in nogada by Millari, with help from Holiday and the birthday girl, using a family recipe of M's dad. I made pasta with various sauces for different tastes. There was also much cheese, chips, crackers, antipasto, and vegetables for dipping in hummus and salsa. We served eggnog and cider spiced with wassail. Despite there being 18 of us, we still have way too much food. (We didn't even get around to roasting chestnuts...)
It's hard a parties like this, even when you have personally invited everyone there, to emotionally connect with more than one or two people. Happily, I got to spend at least a few nice moments, between cooking and hosting and such, with almost everyone, and I'm really glad I did.
Help and goodies were provided by: St. W and B, who brought cookies (B), lent us a crock pot, and made up lyric sheets for carols and led the singing (St W); Lefty (clean up, fixing a light) and F (brought wine); Holiday (cooking and brought soda); and RT and ID (mead), and the Destroyer (more chips). And, actually, probably more people helped than I even know, and I appreciate them, too.
And now, to emulate Feisty, who, after receiving much adoration, has curled up on the bed and fallen deeply asleep.
P.S. Je t'aime beaucoup, ma copine.
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Our guests included: MAMEd and his lovely wife Holiday and their daughters, Lefty and
fuschia , St. Whatserface and Brian, The Destroyer, reverendtom and ionia_dreaming , sydneycat and [Bad username or unknown identity:
]morlock, soulstorage ,the
pazza ragazza and her friend the enemy of obscurity (unlike these
aliases I'm choosing to use), more than we actually expected. We
barely had enough room for us all.Activities included singing carols, making ornaments (which now grace our tree), pulling christmas crackers and surprising M & H's eldest daughter with a birthday cake.
Food included: the birthday cake, with homemade frosting courtesy of Millari, a key lime pie and flan (also Millari), chiles in nogada by Millari, with help from Holiday and the birthday girl, using a family recipe of M's dad. I made pasta with various sauces for different tastes. There was also much cheese, chips, crackers, antipasto, and vegetables for dipping in hummus and salsa. We served eggnog and cider spiced with wassail. Despite there being 18 of us, we still have way too much food. (We didn't even get around to roasting chestnuts...)
It's hard a parties like this, even when you have personally invited everyone there, to emotionally connect with more than one or two people. Happily, I got to spend at least a few nice moments, between cooking and hosting and such, with almost everyone, and I'm really glad I did.
Help and goodies were provided by: St. W and B, who brought cookies (B), lent us a crock pot, and made up lyric sheets for carols and led the singing (St W); Lefty (clean up, fixing a light) and F (brought wine); Holiday (cooking and brought soda); and RT and ID (mead), and the Destroyer (more chips). And, actually, probably more people helped than I even know, and I appreciate them, too.
And now, to emulate Feisty, who, after receiving much adoration, has curled up on the bed and fallen deeply asleep.
P.S. Je t'aime beaucoup, ma copine.
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Date: 2005-12-18 08:44 am (UTC)Ours was a small party and it broke up early, but we did get to see some acquaintances that we hadn't seen for a while, so it was nice to catch up. Hope to get to see you and Michelle before the holidays, but if not, the merriest of Christmases!