First we start off with antipasto, and stuffed mushrooms. Then the pasta dish, it will be homemade ravioli, courtesy of my Italian MIL. Then the salad, arugula sald topped with baked stuffed gorgonzola pears. Then the main dish, grilled lamb chops with grilled veggies, and a roast leg of lamb roasted with rosemary potatoes. All served with a lovely homemade red wine. I love my in laws, but I love them more after a few glasses of red :P DH and I are hosting this year to take the burden off my MIL who hosts everything. There will be 11 adults and 6 children, and 1 infant who is still just bottle feeding, no lamb for her! For desert mini coconut cupcakes and traditional grain pie and italian cheesecake. I'm most looking forward to the egg hunt with the kiddies though. I love holidays with our huge Italian family!

Thanks, Nancy, and a "Merry Easter" to you and Kim! Tami, 5 years? I was told 3 years, but I couldn't get the stuff to even grow one year. The first time I planted it, it was by the butternut tree. I didn't know then that butternut trees give off the same juglone that black walnuts do, and of course it didn't grow. I planted some more here in town out by the pool, but it never came up at all. I tried at the farm again, in the far back of the pasture by the pond, but nothing, maybe the cows ate it, but I wouldn't think so. So, three times and nothing, but you know I have to try again. I also need to get some of that lovage that Nancy gave me, I liked it a lot and now I have a place to plant it where it an just settle in and get comfortable, out at the farm. Annie

U betcha! Went grocery shopping today...2 hams purchased with all the trimmings and fixings for creamed potatoes, fresh corn, green beans, rolls, coleslaw, buttered rolls and my favorite....carrot cake! Our daughter and her family of three girls and that special SIL are coming from Florida (they will be here sometime Wednesday) and our son, who is not married and lives in a small town nearby will be coming for Easter Dinner on Saturday....then on Sunday I'll fix a quick bite of cereal and milk for the girls before we head out to church.....but the Easter Bunny will have been busy the night before preparing a special brunch to enjoy before they head back to Florida! Probably have a breakfast casserole in the crockpot while we're at church...fresh baked biscuits with ham (if I have any left from Saturday)muffins, fresh fruit, juice and coffee! Wanna come? It will be great!

There will just be the four of us. I won't even get to see my daughter. I know we will get through this but that really bothers me. We will have a traditional turkey that my nephew will cook. We will have yams carrots and potatoes on the side. Probably a french onion soup to start and to finish I have pumpkin so I will probably make pumpkin squares. I feel like we already have so taken so many chances that I won't take another chance. My family members who don't live here must stay away and I must a stay away from them. I have to go off to work as I am working for a frontline person but I have very restricted physical contact with them. We meet at a distance and their dog comes and runs to me I put my leash on their dog. When the dog runs back to them at the end of the 2 hour walk they wash the collar off that I have touched. I wear gloves and I sanitize those gloves the same as I would my hands and I also sanitize my face mask. In other words before during and after the walk I am constantly sanitizing myself. I sanitize my hands and face and also my cell phone. My clothes and mask are changed after every walk. I have five masks and I use a HEPA filter in the middle. Of course I also have my husband and son and nephew to be concerned about so maybe that is making me be even more paranoid than others. I cannot believe how many people don't have masks or gloves and casually brush by people. Don't they know that asymptomatic people can be like pig pen only invisible with virus spewing forth from their every breath and word! I try to make myself look as contagious as possible. I hold my gloved hand to my face and turn a my back to people who are too close. I act as if they are the zombies in the Brad Pitt movie.