Holiday Gatherings
Mother Had “Views”
She had rigid demands of us for the holiday meal
The holidays are fast approaching. It’s way too early to be thinking of this, you say? It isn’t really, you know. Details have to be firmed up. Arrangements must be made well before the menus are even planned.
The stress can begin pretty early because some folks cling to entrenched traditions about just what holidays should look like. Trying to satisfy those traditions is the source of many a holiday tragicomedy. In fact, that can be a source of contention and discord.
Readers, what is your holiday tragicomedy… Write about and please tag me in your own tale.
This was especially true with my kin. Most particularly, it was a cause of discord between Mother and my little family. She had “views” of an old Hollywood fantasy.
My little family of three invited Mother and Father for Thanksgiving one year. It was to be just the five of us. Mother always demanded things be done in what she staunchly held to be the only way — her way.
Her way was something out of old movies. Mother seemed to have this conviction that holiday meals should look like feasting tables from Hollywood’s Technicolor heyday. Anything less was an affront.