Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

We had a holiday brunch yesterday, co-hosted my younger son and I.  We work really smoothly together, with the help of my husband, his wife, our younger daughter and her husband.  Everyone pitches in and just does what needs to be done.  This year is our first daytime party.  We switched from evening because of our grandchildren and our kids friends who have little ones, and because some of my friends have trouble with our stairs at night.  I loved having it in the daytime, and the rain held off and the children could be in the back yard to blow off steam.  We cooked four kinds of frittatas, waffles with syrups, fruit, whipped cream and other goodies and served mimosas and two huge cakes:  buche de noel and coconut cake.  Everyone was on a happy sugar high.  A big hit was the toddlers climbing up and down the inside stairs.  I could have charged admission!  Even the cleanup wasn't awful.  The last of it was put away this morning.  Last night, exhausted, my husband and I had McDonalds and watched "The Bishop's Wife" with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven, backs aching but soooo satisfied.