Break out your prettiest pieces to toast 2025
If you’re hosting a New Year’s gathering, no matter what the theme or what’s on the menu — pull out all the stops for a festive beginning to 2025. Whatever you’ve planned, whether buffet snacks or full dinner, present it on/in your prettiest china, crystal or silver accoutrements.
Serve coffee or hot drinks of any ilk in your vintage china or glass cups; bring out Great-Grandma’s heirloom saucer glasses for the champagne; use that rare old cobalt cake dish for a cookie tray. All your departed loved ones in Heaven will join you in spirit when you honor their memory by using their treasured keepsakes (I actually talk to Grandma Riesland — or Mama — or Aunt Garnet when I get out their cobalt or Fostoria crystal or sterling).
Family is very precious and I have always told my kids, grandkids — and now great-grandkids — stories of their forbears when we use an item that’s been handed down. I believe the sense of continuity is an important thing to instill in our progeny — the knowledge of history and their place in a long line going back to other countries and times gives them the comfort of belonging.
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