Culturefest Luncheon

One of the parties at our house this year was my citizenship students bringing food from their countries: Thailand, Laos, and Russia. (I "made" ice cream and berries.) Look at this table. It's 5 feet in diameter. OMG. It was incredible eating. And drinking. And fun.

The five of us women sat there for hours and put bulges in our bellies but not much dent in the food. I learned I LOVE Laotioan food. And I'd never had sticky rice...or Thai dipping sauce quite as hot as theirs, but it was all delicious. Everyone took some home, and we ate off ours for three days. Yum.

I also decided this holiday season to stop saving things. My new motto is: "It gets used or it gets gone." So I put away my stainless flatware and pulled out Mom's sterling. It's beautiful, it's tired of being in a box all the time, and it's going to get used until I die and/or it gets sold. And yes, it's going in the dishwasher. As soon as we get a new one.

Many, many things will go to auction this year...as I've been threatening for years now. This time I mean it.

I'll let you know how that goes!