Every year on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day, I have always had a tradition of serving the meal on festive paper plates. Now that may sound pretty tacky to most. But it comes from a place of having the WHOLE family get together and having some 20+ people eating multiple times throughout the day, you see? When the whole Snider clan got together, there was the simple logistics of having enough dishes, and there was also the inevitable cleaning up of ssoooo many dishes. The remedy to such a situation was to purchase the most attractive paper products known to man. Turkeys or cornucopias for Thanksgiving and santas or snowmen for Christmas were always favorites. We also made a kind of game out of it, to see who could get the "plates" first each year.
This year I am going to break with my tradition!!! Finally, I am purchasing festive winter dishes that can be used for both holidays! And as I have been eye-balling this 40 piece, 8 place-setting dinnerware for some 2 weeks now, I kept thinking they looked familiar, nostalgic, reminiscent of my Mother's table not so long ago. I just got off the phone with her and yes! she had them some 15 years ago. It's so nice to carry-on with something from within your past. They have a red barn, with families playing in the snow, a snowman, many pine trees glistening with snow, skaters down on the old mill pond, and horse drawn carriage, all set within rolling hills. Perfect to carry us through the entire Winter season. Say good-bye to the paper plates and hello to Holiday dinnerware!! We can no longer be misconstrued for the Clampett clan at our Holiday table. I'm so excited!!
P.S. At 0320 on 10/7/11 I purchased my holday dinnerware!!! Yippee!!!
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