Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
I dread Christmas. We always have the XYL's whole clan here—15 or more people in a 1100 sq. ft. house—so I spend most of my free time in December preparing for guests, cooking and hosting, then cleaning up afterwards.
Hah, you should have seen Christmas at my Grandpa's house in the Bronx. 20+ people in one small kitchen !! Not to mention the cooking, and making the zeppoli's and the struffoli. And in the next room, me and 20+ cousins !! And my oldest cousin Joan trying to keep all the little ones behaved while I was driving her crazy riling them up, telling them that there were monsters hiding in the dark room in the back and that the "ghost of Christmas past" was going to appear in the darkened bedroom. Joan would be cursing me while yelling to the kids "THERE'S NO MONSTER/GHOST IN THERE".

Those were some great times.