After celebrating Christmas Day with the relatives (my mother, Jan’s mother, Jan’s brother and sister with their respective children), we celebrated our ‘family’ Christmas on Dec. 26 (what we Dutch refer to as ‘second Christmas Day) with 22 friends. So there were 24 of us in all for dinner. Each course (there were seven) was prepared, served, cleared and the dishes done by one group: that way everybody did their share, without burdening anyone with the complete dinner.
It was fun, as always, but a few people had to work again the next day. So it was not as exuberant as last year’s ‘Scottish’ Christmas.