Cooking all the food! We'll be hosting our first Thanksgiving in the new house and I'm excited about it.
Same here! Prior to that getting a bunch of deliveries, painting, and a whole other long list. I should be stressed, but I am just excited. Whatever gets done will happen, if something doesn't get done, whatever. There will be food and drink; there will be a bunch of people who love each other. If I still have blue tape on woodwork and brown paper on the floor in places it won't matter. If I don't get glasses delivered in time, or whatever else is missing, I'll call someone and have them bring them along. It's all good.
I'll be cooking for a couple of friends. I enjoy cooking, and they enjoy eating, so it should go reasonably well.
I'll be reheating Whole Foods takeout with mom and dad, and braising some turkey legs if I can find some. I think mom said we will also need to cook our own sweet potato casserole as the ones WF had available were all full of cream. Mom and I are both the kind of people who like to calculate how long everything needs to be in the oven or on the stovetop or whatever and make a schedule of when what needs to be where, so that'll be a fun morning activity. Probably watching football some of the time. Turning leftovers into soup and pie.
Cooking all the food...in the new house....
Have you adjusted to the new kitchen? What are the pros and cons?
Cleaning. So much cleaning. There is only cleaning. My parents arrive tomorrow morning.
Currently I'm in tech rehearsals for A Christmas Carol. We will be hosting friends for Thanksgiving on Thursday as is our normal practice.
M's mom wanted to cook a whole turkey and a full Thanksgiving dinner. I pointed out that she also wanted us to go to her other son and daughter's on Thanksgiving day and possibly we would have too much food. "But we wont' have leftovers if we just go to their houses!" This from the woman who doesn't actual eat leftovers and wants to start throwing leftovers out less than 24 hours after they've been in the fridge.
Mom talked about coming down but I think she's going to go a friend's instead. Which I think is reasonable and Dad isn't coming up, he talked about it briefly but I work in the middle of they day Wed and Friday so it wouldn't be much time to really do anything with him.
I vaguely thought about cooking something but I haven't really felt like cooking in a long time. I dunno why it just hasn't really appealed to me.
I've been working on varoius projects one which will be Christmas present. I'm very slow at creating things and I realized if I want to give anyone something I made for Christmas I have to actually start producing something or figure out what I've already created to give as gifts. I have too many ideas and not enough ability to get organized .
My sister and I are having a spa night on Wednesday evening at some luxe Roman bath type place (with a gift cert that I gave her for Xmas last year) and then going simple on Thursday. Like pot of chili simple, and having a friend or two over for football.
It is far from out of the question that we scrap that plan at the last second and scramble to put together a more fancy and festive spread.
And of course there will be pie. Pumpkin and cranberry chess.
Darn lesbians wanting to BE sporty instead of just WATCHING sports.
Ha, ha! I'm glad my sister and wife do not exhibit this behavior. We would have to have words. (Well, my sister might've fifteen years ago or so, but two knee replacements kind of put the kibosh on super sportiness.)
Yay to the two new-homestead Thanksgivings, Laura and Zmayehms! What a delight it would be to see either of those days unfold... and the food... I can just imagine!
Nice to hear the comings and goings and entertaining of friends and family, all around!
Cleaning. So much cleaning. There is only cleaning. My parents arrive tomorrow morning.
All the cleaning. I heard that.
but I haven't really felt like cooking in a long time. I dunno why it just hasn't really appealed to me.
I've been in that headspace for months now. I don't know what's up. I've rarely loved cooking, but I've gotten into some grooves. Not right now, though.
My sister and I are having a spa night on Wednesday evening at some luxe Roman bath type place (with a gift cert that I gave her for Xmas last year) and then going simple on Thursday. Like pot of chili simple, and having a friend or two over for football.
Nice and nice! Also nice if you fancy it up, of course.
Originally, were were doing pretty much nothing on Thanksgiving Day, then going out to a nice chef's tasting at the place we had dinner after our wedding (not because of that, but because it's a really good restaurant that we happened to discover that night). We would have done it Thursday, but I liked the regular November menu much better than that Thanksgiving Day menu.
But then my nephew ended up inviting us to their place after my other sister (his aunt, not his mom) and her wife "went AWOL," in his words (they usually host Thanksgiving; apparently nephew does not approve of their alternate plans this year, ha!)
So, now I'm making the requested mashed potatoes, and we're going nephew's family's place (Kent Island, MD -- about and hour and a half away) for an afternoon meal, so... day trip. Should be fun! My-sister-his-mom + a few of his wife's relatives + the kids.
And we still get fancy dinner on Friday! Nice.
Who else has some plans to share?
