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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MIL tries to sit in my seat when we're about to start dinner. She wants to sit in hostess seat. This year I will tell her to stand up and move![/quote]

Have your kids make place cards, then help them arrange them at the table. Gee I wonder why my MIL is always seated FAR from me. She tried to take the hostess seat for years, but I always made her move.[/quote]

Which seat is the hostess seat?[/quote]

On a rectangle or oblong table, the host’s seat is on the short end of the far side of the room; the hostess seat is on the short end on the side closest to the kitchen. The form and function: the host has his elbows free to carve and pass and pour wine, the hostess is able to quickly get to and from the kitchen to get wine or anything else that is needed.

Guests are seated on the long ends of the table. [/quote]

My mother in law makes a big deal about how **I** Get to sit at the hostess seat in my own house. I think she thinks she is being very gracious. I think it's all very weird and 1950s to have a hostess seat in the first place (really, I like sitting on the longer end of our table and always do-and really, the woman is supposed to feel honored she gets to go get things from the kitchen) and uncessary and tell her she's fine to sit there.

Little does she know our dirty family secret that unless other people are joining us, we don't use the ends of the table anywa.y[/quote]

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