I am thankful for being busy to keep me from being disappointed. We're not going to Mesa for Thanksgiving this year for the first time in 5 years of living in LA. We've been invited to join some friends and their in-laws, but I know it won't be the same. I've been dreading the thought of not being with my mom to help make all the food, and watching the Macy's parade alone. But distraction has proved a wonderful blessing. The mother-in-law doesn't want to cook the whole feast by herself, so she's asked if my friend Krista and I will help. I get to make the pies, yams, and drinks. I've never done the pies all by myself, mom's always been there to help. I don't doubt my ability because I've made lots of pies before without her, but this presents an extra incentive that I'm the ONLY one making dessert. Krista and I met at the grocery store and bought all the ingredients. It's so fun to have Thanksgiving food in my house and plans for how I'm gonna make four pies and yams with perfect timing so everything's hot and fresh for the big meal. Just glad that the festivities aren't at my little house so I don't have to clean on top of all this baking!
I hope everyone else's plans are going well too. :)
2 comments:
Since we moved to Las Vegas we haven't been able to go home for Thanksgiving. Jessica and I always had to work on the Wednesday beforeand the Friday after so it never made sense to drive down for the day. This year however, my parents and my brother have decided to come to Vegas! We're pretty excited to actually have family to spend the time with. We always do Thanksgiving in a restaurant since it's usually the two of us and this year, the plan was no different. But, when the family decided to come here, we suddenly had to increase our reservation from two to five! That's a completely different table. Thankfully, because we frequent the restaurant often and are well known there (and it's a fancy restaurant) they were able to accomodate us, but just barely. I think that if we didn't go there as often as we do they wouldn't have tried so hard.
Anyway, this is a long comment just to say I know how it is not going home and I'm lucky to have them coming.
Scott P.
How fun that you get to share your pie talent with a new crowd!
...but it won't be the same without you. :( sniff, sniff
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