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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, come back and update us.  Have you talked to your sister since last week? What's the latest?[/quote]

It's not my sister.  I'm trying to figure out whether to float this idea of a buffet, to see if it might help.  Before I do that, I need to have a sense of the logistics in a small space. I know other people pull it off, but I am having trouble picturing it in our particular space.  So, I need a moment to figure that out.  We've got some time, this is about Christmas, not Thanksgiving.  [/quote]

Do you have a kitchen counter or island you can clear? I do that. Otherwise you can set up a folding table for all the food. [/quote]

We don't have an obvious space for this.  The kitchen is smallish and galley style.  There's not really room to set up a buffet there, definitely no island and not a lot of counter space.

We have a living room, a dining room and a sunroom.  The dining room and sun room are basically wall to wall tables.  The kind of set up where if someone in certain seats needs to go to the bathroom, then 2 or 3 people need to get up to let them out (obviously we choose carefully who sits there).   We have people who act as runners who sit in the seats that have the most access, and people who sit in seats that have access because either they need the bathroom a lot or they have a very small child, but everyone else just stays put.

That doesn't mean we can't conceivably figure this out.  But what we have always done works fine, except for this one issue.  So, I kind of need to figure out if it would work as well, or close to as well if we did a buffet before I suggest it?  I also need to figure out if it's even a solution.  My relative isn't asking for a buffet.  She's literally saying that since Christmas is "for the children" we should only serve food that her specific children like.  I'm just wondering if, perhaps, the chance to plate her own children's food would reduce her angst.  But I don't actually know that it would.  So, before I suggest a buffet, I need to sort of visualize it better.  Does that make sense?  [/quote]

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