Michelle's Many Musings

This year my husband, Chris, and I decided to celebrate an “orphan” Christmas; our friends who were far from their families and nowhere to go for Christmas were invited to join us for dinner. At first, we thought there would be 2-3 guests, but we wanted to make sure everyone we could think of had a place at the table. Chris works for a French-owned company, so there are a number of people we knew from Europe who were far from home. We invited a number of them and two took us up on our offer. One of them invited three other friends (with our permission, of course), so now we were up to eight guests! Thankfully, we had enough plates, cutlery and chairs for 10 people (albeit mismatched), so it was perfect! There were guests from France, Germany, Switzerland, China, Singapore and Canada – what an eclectic bunch! And we had one of the loveliest Christmases we’ve had in a long time. “Family” isn’t always biological!