Boundaries Make For Better Holidays- Part 3
This next boundary tip may send some of the Betty Crocker types over the edge. Forgive me ahead of time. Again, my purpose is to give some suggestions that could help make your holiday's a little more holly jolly.
Order Out!
We all have visions of the perfect holiday where we are dressed in our holiday best and we have created the most incredible array of holiday favorites that are all ready at the exact same time and stay the perfect temperature until we are ready to eat them, without making our kitchen look like something blew up in it and everything went so smoothly we didn't even know we were cooking. (Please let me know if any of you have EVER had this happen, I will create some kind of June Cleaver award and send it to you!)
* Ordering food (even if it's not the entire meal) does allow you to spend time with those people that you have invited to your home to share in the holiday celebration with you. Now, knowing family dynamics like I do, some of you may want to hide out in the kitchen in order to create the illusion that you are spending quality time with your family, yet are able to escape most interaction because you are busy slaving away in order to create the perfect holiday meal for those you love so dearly. To you I say cook your little heart out!
* To those who feel like every year buy more food than anyone can possible eat in one much less four sittings, spend your entire day cooking and have not yet sat down to a hot, much less warm holiday meal, and miss out on all of the family fun, this might help.
If the idea of ordering out makes you feel like a complete holiday failure there is another option
* If you are hosting the holiday ask your guests to bring a side dish. We do this every year and it works out great. We cook the turkey every Thanksgiving (I say we cook the turkey, but it's actually my step-son Josh. He's a much better cook) and then everyone else brings an assigned side dish. Assigning the items helps to decrease duplication.
Food is an important part of our celebrations, however; spending quality time with family and friends is the most important part. Enjoy the people you have chosen to spend the day with! Food will be forgotten, people we spend time with will not
Have a wonderful day and remember whatever you choose to do today, do it with a SMILE!
Wishing you patience, love and compassion,
Sue Salach
Author
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