So Glad the Holidays are Over!!!

I am so relieved that the holidays are over. OK, maybe not completely over, but my holiday fundraiser for work is over. I manage 270 guests, in a gala event that, happily, went off without a hitch. Well, maybe not completely without a hitch. There were those three couples that didn’t show, even thought they paid to attend, and those other two of someone’s guests who couldn’t come at the last minute, and were replaced by people whose names I didn’t have on my registration list. Oh, and those other two people who came to the event, but whose response I hadn’t yet received, so I had to quickly create two special seats for them. But, really otherwise, the event went off without a hitch!

Glad that’s over for this year.

I also finished another three holiday parties in the span of two days, one in the evening for 110 people and another one the next afternoon for about the same number, and then a much smaller party the afternoon after that for about 40 people, even though one of those days was my wedding anniversary (see the flowers below) and now, we’ll have to make plans to go out to dinner another evening, hopefully sometime over the next two weeks.

And Chanukah, which came early because we are on a different calendar, so the dates change every year, is really over, even though I still have my family party which has become our tradition to host, but which we always wait to schedule based on when my sister and her family come to town.

This year, we will have that party the day after Christmas, but that’s only 35 family members and all I have to do is clean the house and make latkes (which I make from scratch, using a box grater, not a food processor or blender. I’m a traditionalist that way!).

Then, the holidays will really be over.

Except for actual Christmas Day, which I will spend with my sister’s in-laws because they are lovely and invite us every year, even though we don’t celebrate Christmas and they really don’t have to…

But, other than that the holidays are finally over. Unless our very good friends that we have spent New Year’s Eve with for the past ten years have the day off and can get together for our traditional New Year’s Eve intimate Annual Culinary and Gluttonous Extravaganza. But, they are probably working, so we may just stay home and make our signature baked brie with apricot chutney (which is truly the most amazing thing!).

Oh, and one more thing. I almost forgot… I do have to plan something for my husband’s 50th birthday on January 3rd. Hmm….

Guess the holidays are not quite over yet…oh well,

Hope you have a Happy Holiday!