I learned a few things over this past holiday. I was in NM with my family, and we had a great time. So, without further ado, let me share with you the things I learned.
1. Facebook is not only a great tool for connecting ONLINE with old friends, but it works great to arranging face-to-face meetings as well. An old horse buddy of mine was flying in with her daughter and it turned out that we both had layovers in Denver. We flew the last leg together and it was a great opportunity to catch up.
2. Children never run out of energy and they brighten holidays by their mere presence.
3. Nothing beats mom's cooking on a holiday.
4. Only 15 days until winter break!!!!
5. I love, love, love being out and about during the holiday season. I did a little Christmas shopping today, and it was so great to be out doing fun stuff. The crowds really don't bother me. Though I do feel bad for the kids whose parents are stressed and take it out on them.
I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving and is looking forward to our next round of revelry.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Olives and Walnut Shells Anyone?
So I like funny blogs. I couldn't get enough Cake Wrecks for a while there. The reality is though that I am insanely busy these days, and Cake Wrecks takes a long time to read just because the pics take a while to load.
So, my current favorite is Catalog Living. Soooo funny. It takes all those random catalog pictures and makes comments about a made-up family that would live in that house. You should check it out.
Anyway, there is a compilation of several of their funny holiday posts. I seriously laughed out loud as I read them. Check it out.
So, my current favorite is Catalog Living. Soooo funny. It takes all those random catalog pictures and makes comments about a made-up family that would live in that house. You should check it out.
Anyway, there is a compilation of several of their funny holiday posts. I seriously laughed out loud as I read them. Check it out.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Holidays
So my friend Alyssa just blogged about holidays, and I wrote this book about them in her comments section. I realized that it is basically a blog post of its own, so what the heck. Here is a C&P of what I wrote there. Alyssa, stop reading here. There's really no need to see my rant twice.
With my family in NM, it's not like we have to worry about going back and forth on the actual holidays. :) Also, DH hates to fly, so clearly he won't be attending Thanksgiving with my parents any time soon. It's just such a short holiday that the only option for travel is air.
When I am with my parents though, my mom does the vast majority of the cooking though my dad and brother carve the turkey. She used to do 100 side dishes (exaggeration,) but we've come to realize that it is better to have a few that we all love and can enjoy rather than so many that we try to eat a little of each. This year the menu is: clam chowder for appetizer, green salad with bleu cheese, candied pecans, fresh pears and a pear vinaigrette, turkey, suffing and dressing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, cranberry pomegranate relish, Brussels sprouts with procutto and pine nuts, broccoli casserole, rolls, pumpkin pie, apple crisp, and that may be it. I'm sure I'm forgetting something though. When I write it all out, it doesn't look like a scaled down meal, but you should have seen those tables when I was a kid! Everything is from scratch too.
To be honest, I hate holiday meals with DH's family. The biggest reason is that they don't do anything from scratch. I mean, they make the turkey, but the potatoes are from a box, frozen green vegetables, boxed pies. You get the idea. If they have wine, it is pink. Blech.
Last year we were in town, but his grandma, the matriarch, didn't want to do turkey and his sister didn't want to drive in, so we took grandma out for Italian (her choice) on Wednesday and then met up with friends on Thanksgiving. It was awesome!
This year I'll be in NM and he'll meet his family in IL for their dinner. I'll be sad to be away from him, but I will not miss their meal. I hope when we move houses and no longer have the cat that we can host. Then I can be in charge and control the processed crap.
Christmas is still to be determined. But let's just say that their boxed crap doesn't hold a candle to my mom's ham, homemade potato gratin, and red wine poached pears. We'll be in town, but they never have a schedule until the last minute. My folks come to town on the 26th, so we'll at least have a second shot at it if the meal blows.
With my family in NM, it's not like we have to worry about going back and forth on the actual holidays. :) Also, DH hates to fly, so clearly he won't be attending Thanksgiving with my parents any time soon. It's just such a short holiday that the only option for travel is air.
When I am with my parents though, my mom does the vast majority of the cooking though my dad and brother carve the turkey. She used to do 100 side dishes (exaggeration,) but we've come to realize that it is better to have a few that we all love and can enjoy rather than so many that we try to eat a little of each. This year the menu is: clam chowder for appetizer, green salad with bleu cheese, candied pecans, fresh pears and a pear vinaigrette, turkey, suffing and dressing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, cranberry pomegranate relish, Brussels sprouts with procutto and pine nuts, broccoli casserole, rolls, pumpkin pie, apple crisp, and that may be it. I'm sure I'm forgetting something though. When I write it all out, it doesn't look like a scaled down meal, but you should have seen those tables when I was a kid! Everything is from scratch too.
To be honest, I hate holiday meals with DH's family. The biggest reason is that they don't do anything from scratch. I mean, they make the turkey, but the potatoes are from a box, frozen green vegetables, boxed pies. You get the idea. If they have wine, it is pink. Blech.
Last year we were in town, but his grandma, the matriarch, didn't want to do turkey and his sister didn't want to drive in, so we took grandma out for Italian (her choice) on Wednesday and then met up with friends on Thanksgiving. It was awesome!
This year I'll be in NM and he'll meet his family in IL for their dinner. I'll be sad to be away from him, but I will not miss their meal. I hope when we move houses and no longer have the cat that we can host. Then I can be in charge and control the processed crap.
Christmas is still to be determined. But let's just say that their boxed crap doesn't hold a candle to my mom's ham, homemade potato gratin, and red wine poached pears. We'll be in town, but they never have a schedule until the last minute. My folks come to town on the 26th, so we'll at least have a second shot at it if the meal blows.
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