This was our first Christmas with our new kitchen and we had an unexpected surprise. We had Christmas Eve with 28 relatives and a full meal with Christmas china, crystal and silver and then we followed it up with Christmas Day dinner for 12 with the same china, etc.

On both days we had both my kitchen sink and my new prep sink (which the kitchen designer had told me was absolutely too big but I'm thrilled with the size now!) going full blast with dishes being washed. It really cut the cleanup time in half. it was especially nice to have all of the dish washing done by my daughters and nieces (and the nephews girlfriends). Us elders (very loose term!) just stood and supervised!