Had to laugh at the last item on your menu...Alka Seltzer! Always a 'have to have' at holiday dinners, lol. Why do we do that to ourselves?Um, Bon Jour!
We're starting the countdown to dinner with:
Deviled eggs
Shrimp Dip 'n crackers
A small relish tray of fresh veggies
And then........
A huge ham, studded with cloves, pineapple, and cherries
Sweet taters 'n apples (the grandkids wouldn't be happy with anything else)
Baked beans
Rolls so light you have to catch them to butter them
Orange Fluff (don't know what it is for sure but my daughter-in-law makes it every year and it's SOOOO good)
A mixed green salad
Followed by -
Pumpkin pie made with the pumpkins my 9 year old grandson grew for me this year
Chocolate pie (so hubby Ken and son Kenny can have "chunklin" pie on their dessert plates)
Lemon merangue pie
Alka Seltzer
Then after dinner is over, the dishes are done, and the leftovers doled out, we'll all head across the street to our son's house for gifts, giggling, and lots of giant hugs. I love Christmas! The little kids will take turns telling the Christmas Stories - Evan and Katie switch off. This year Evan will tell the story of the Birth and Katie will tell the story of her great-gramma LaVonne's Charlie Brown Tree.
Your Christmas plans sound perfect, how nice you all are close to share the day. Bon Appetit! as Julia Child used to say.