On a tablecloth

I have a lot of childhood memories of having formal dinners at our house. I would have to put a leaf in the middle of the dining room to make it bigger. Then I'd help my mother spread the tablecloth over it, and she'd lay out the nice china and the good silverware. She'd cook a lot of different dishes of food and set them out on the nearby serving table for people to walk by and pick out the food they wanted and put it on their plates. Often turkey, since this could be Thanksgiving, or roast beef or a sliced ham.