I need to breathe

[district12ravenclaw]

So since we have this nice new house (new for us) and a new baby, I decided to host Christmas at our house this year. With my family, Steve's family, and the three of us, that makes 9. Add my grandma, my uncle, and my cousin, and we have 12. Getting a little tight here. My aunt wasn't sure if she had to work on Christmas, but it turns out that she doesn't, so she's coming over too. With her family, that makes 17. I'm stressing a little.

But wait, there's more! My mom called me tonight to let me know that her cousin and her cousin's husband will be coming, and my piece of shit cousins will also be coming with their 2 babies. All in all, we're going to have 23 people at my house, ack! I'm having an anxiety attack just thinking about it. We don't have enough room for all these people, but I couldn't turn anyone away, it's Christmas!

Any party planners have any tips for me?

Comments

[stevesbabygirl.livejournal.com]

We have our regular dinner table (seats 6), a banquet table (seats 6-8 I think), and a card table (seats 4) which is being used to hold my Rudolph village. We also have patio table outside, but Steve insists that he can't get it clean enough. Hmm...

[jenjunum.livejournal.com]

Take a Mr Clean Magic Eraser to it. And if that doesn't do it put a long table cloth over it. It sounds like you'll have enough space though especially since some of the people are babies.

[stevesbabygirl.livejournal.com]

That's not a bad idea!