A More Appropriate Look For Christmas
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The one thing you don’t want to do around Christmas time is hurt someone’s feelings. We all avoid it, people are generally nicer on Christmas and I think it’s a really good thing. Of course it can lead to awkward little problems. I know this woman a few blocks away. My son and her son are friends. She used to have this really important corporate job. She quit it later and became a dedicated stay at home mom.
She may have had a great career, and she is certainly a terrific mom, but she just doesn’t do food tables. I’m not one of those stepford house wives and I certainly don’t upholster my own sofa. I’m about as ordinary as they get but even then I can’t bring myself to accept what she does to her food on Christmas. For a woman who has such excellent taste in Christmas gifts, I can’t get my head around what she does to the food. She dresses her food up! Her chicken has pigtails and her potatoes wear little shirts! And since we’re all so determinedly nice around Christmas, no one can tell her that food dressed like humans is kind of freaky.
But I’ve decided to do something about it. I owe her one. She’s a thoughtful person; she spends a good two months looking for unique Christmas gifts for everyone. She gets Christmas gifts for people she hardly knows, even the trash guy! You don’t get nicer than that. So I’m going to be sending her inspiration by way of Christmas gift baskets. I know where I can get some great Christmas fruit baskets and I’ll be sending her one two weeks before Christmas and one the day before. They make good Christmas holiday gifts and fantastic center pieces. I’ve centered a lot of my dinner décor around it. I know being as smart as she is, she’ll get the clue.
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