Holiday Mashup
I used to be so stubborn about keeping Thanksgiving separate from Christmas (why? Why was that so important to me? I can’t even remember). Now I happily embrace the Thanksgiving/Christmas vibes! Today was quite a day. When I left for work, my daughter was busy dyeing her hair pink (she bleached it blond the day before). In the middle of my workday I checked my phone and saw that I had about 17 texts.. this can’t be good. The first series were from my daughter, who decided she hated her pink hair, thought she wanted to dye it black instead, and then The next series of texts were from my son… telling us his flight from O’Hare was so delayed that he would miss his connection in Orlando. He would either have to spend the night in Orlando, OR, maybe one of us could drive up there to pick him up? GAH. Orlando is three hours EACH WAY. We had planned to spend the evening cleaning the house and doing some cooking, and it’s telling that my husband and I actually argued over who would drive to Orlando- “I’ll go!” “No, I’ll go!” Driving for six hours was preferable to staying home and doing all the cleaning alone. The crisis was averted! The airline rerouted my son through Nashville, and he got to Ft. Lauderdale at midnight (ha ha… we didn’t argue over who would go to the airport- I told my husband “You can go!”) But it was better than driving to Orlando. Since no one had to drive to Orlando, we tackled the house together- vacuuming, mopping, scrubbing… and we had some furniture moving to do! We need to move things around to accommodate the Christmas tree- I was very glad I didn’t have to do all this by myself. I also made pumpkin baked ziti! It’s a recipe I make every year from Isa Chandra Moskowitz’s Veganomicon cookbook. We ate some for dinner tonight, and will also have it tomorrow night so I don’t have to cook a dinner- I’ll be busy enough cooking other things tomorrow. The reason why one corner is so weird and lumpy is that I had to differentiate a portion for my daughter that has no caramelized onions- otherwise she won’t eat it. And, I put up my Christmas card display! I had to do this because I have received the FIRST OFFICIAL CARD OF CHRISTMAS!!! Someone reading this will recognize their card… Coming up tomorrow: pie baking day! Are you baking pies for Thanksgiving? Do you have Christmas decorations up yet? Top photo by Hanna Balan on Unsplash