My family takes turns who hosts most people for Christmas.
We alternate between my mom’s, my sibling’s plus my own apartment plus have the whole family for dinner, drinks plus gift exchange.
It’s a entirely great way to spend the holidays plus yet rather stressful. This past year, it was my turn. I spent a lot of time planning out the menu plus decorating my home to make it festive… Purchasing the ingredients for the meal plus the drinks was quite luxurious. I also devoted a great deal of effort into setting up the Christmas tree plus making sure there was enough seating to accommodate most people. The day before the large celebration, I cleaned the whole apartment plus even ironed the tablecloth plus linen napkins. I got up super early that day to start cooking, baking plus completing all of the preparations. Since the weather had turned especially cold plus nasty, I thought it would be a great method to raise the temperature control setting. I wanted the apartment to be hot plus cozy before most people arrived. The heating system, however, made a horrible grinding noise, spewed a tremendous amount of dust from the vents plus completely quit. I tried everything to get it started again with no luck. I then began calling every Heating, Ventilation, plus A/C business in the local area, trying to find a business willing to provide repairs on Christmas day. I had to pay huge overtime fees for emergency service. Plus, I had to hurry plus wash up after the repairs. It was a nightmare but luckyly the laboring heating system was able to hot up the apartment in time for dinner.