April 4, 2021. Madison, Mississippi. Food for celebrations.

Most holidays come with traditional food so you do not need to become inventive. As a hostess you just cook the normal food. Of course we always eat turkey for Thanksgiving. And for Easter we typically eat ham or lamb. Canadians typically serve turkey for Christmas too while Americans eat roast beef. But Christina and I broke all the rules. Today for our Easter feast we ate barecued ribs along with beans and creamed corn. Usually we eat out for our Sunday brunch but we decided that the restaurants would be full and neither of us really wanted to prepare a fancy meal so we settled on barbecue. I ordered all the food all cooked so all we needed to do was heat everything up in the oven. Christina did all the work after she arrived while I set the table and got ready. The food was delicious and we are congratulating ourselves with our choice. Last Thanksgiving was also non traditional. We ate steak. It will be a keeper. We will do it again. And for Christmas we ate Chinese food which we have been eating since Andrew died. After Andrew died, Ken and I did not want to have to deal with an empty chair at the table so along with Christina we decided to be Jewish and eat Chine food at the restaurant. It too was a hit and we have been eating Chine food for Christmas every year. This year due to covid Christina brought the food and we ate at my house. So we are set. Steak for Thanksgiving Day, Chinese food for Christmas dinner and barbecue ribs for Easter. We have thrown tradition out the window.