http://cottagedaily.com/2007/09/21/count-down-to-thanksgiving/ Online Guide to Cottage Living Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:29:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 http://cottagedaily.com/2007/09/21/count-down-to-thanksgiving/#comment-369 Doris Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:36:45 +0000 http://cottagedaily.com/2007/09/21/count-down-to-thanksgiving/#comment-369 RE: Not waiting until the hostess sits down to start eating. I've been that hostess who spent a long time making a big dinner and I don't appreciate the meal being half eaten before I sit down and having to ask for every single dish to be passed to me so I can start and then getting in about two mouthfuls before they are wanting tea, coffee and dessert. It also doesn't hurt for children to observe some basic table manners so that when they are grown up and visit homes where social graces are the norm they don't appear to be social outcasts. RE:
Not waiting until the hostess sits down to start eating. I’ve been that hostess who spent a long time making a big dinner and I don’t appreciate the meal being half eaten before I sit down and having to ask for every single dish to be passed to me so I can start and then getting in about two mouthfuls before they are wanting tea, coffee and dessert. It also doesn’t hurt for children to observe some basic table manners so that when they are grown up and visit homes where social graces are the norm they don’t appear to be social outcasts.

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