We also had potato salad, homemade rolls and bread, vegetable salad, jello fruit salad, and cake for desert. For dinner that evening, I took the hard boiled eggs and made them into egg salad sandwiches. We also had potato chips, pop corn, and finished off the cake for desert.
Easter Monday sort of got changed around. It was suppose to be at my parents, but got moved to Joseph and Martha's because they have more room. There were almost 400 people there with Joseph's family, my family and David's family. Now you see why we needed the room. Next year we hope to have it at our new house.
For dinner we had turkey, ham (one of our pigs slaughtered), and chicken, all sorts of salads, vegetables, bread, rolls, jams and jellies, peanut butter (homemade), cakes, and pies for deserts. Later in the afternoon, we had cookies and coffee or tea or milk. Martha set up the kitchen buffet style. So we filled up our plates and found a place to sit. As it was suppose to rain, they had tables, and TV trays in the house and on the porch-plus some tables with chairs set up in the barn.
After dinner as the ladies cleaned up the kitchen, then men went talking in one of the barns and the children played. When we got done cleaning, we ladies had tea and talked for a while. Some of the relatives we hadn't seen in a long time. Before we left, we all had a singing. We sang religious songs. It was hard getting everyone in the house, but Martha did it. We all had a very nice day.
We got home in time to milk the cows. Our dinner at home was left overs from the dinner that Martha sent home with us.
Hope You Had a Happy Easter.
Be With God,
Jean
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Marilyn
7 comments:
Here, we start our second six months heading toward our first year. Thank you for all the compliments. You are all the greatest people from all over the world.
Marilyn
Wow, my jaw dropped when I saw 400 people for dinner!! Thank you for this really interesting post Jean. Now I want to get the grill out from where we store it in the barn for the winter, and fire it up. I've got Spring Fever.
Doreen
Oh Martha!! Wow! 400 for dinner, and they took home leftovers!!!
What a fabulous thing to also have a singing.
Wow...the most I ever served was 150,with help,at a church function.I would love to have a big family like that! I'm glad everyone had a nice Easter.
Blessings
Gerritje
Hi Folks,
Jean floored me when she said they had 400, but to Old Order Mennonite it isn't hard to make a dinner for that many. Everyone brings a dish to pass and the ladies take care of the rest. Many hands make the work grow lighter-Jean says. That's not all of the family, either. Some live out of state and couldn't come.
Marilyn
Marilyn, can you ask Jean how many times a year they have such a large gathering of family? Just wondering if it happens often, or only a few times a year.
Doreen
Hi Doreen,
I sure will ask her.
Marilyn
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