Reflections on the Holiday Table

In late fall and early winter, this farm comes into its own as a gathering place for family members and friends. Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays draw people to our warm hearth and abundant dinner table. We might have a couple of families of children and grandchildren, an unattached adult child who lives out of state, and perhaps some local friends who weren’t able to be with their own families this year.

With three generations at a big holiday meal, we need a Children’s Table. We bring out the card table and four folding chairs, find a tablecloth the right size, and look for some sturdy, if mismatched, place settings for the younger children. I locate our scratched but indestructible blue plastic tumblers. If