What can I possibly say in a day-after-the-holiday post that you haven't already seen and heard? I'm sure everybody else is just as stuffed with turkey and cranberry as we are and there are no great epiphanies to speak of yet there is that big sigh of contentment and sense of warm home-y holiday after-glow.
Tater is 6 years past her first holiday turkey and tackled setting the table all by herself (with a minimum of coaching from me). Setting the table is one of those things she loves so much that I'm not sure I even understand it. Though its a family priority for us to always eat dinner as a family even on busy nights we very rarely set a table with more than the basics... something to eat on and something to eat with and a glass of something. But she loves place-mats and pretty bowls and folded napkins and has been known to insist on all the propers for a Tuesday night soup-and-sandwich style dinner. Needless to say she was thrilled with herself on Turkey Day and delighted when I let her dig out the wine glasses.
The turkey was perfect (big sigh of relief), the table was sparkly, and the weather was just sharp enough to make it all feel warm and cozy inside the house. We shared dinner and the day with the kind of friends who bring stuffing and go back for seconds. The kind of friends who stick around to play cards and drink wine late into the evening and tolerate Mac Daddy reading passages from The Good Book.
All in all a fabulous day and a relaxing evening.
And today we'll do what everybody does the day after Turkey Day... eat leftovers and shoot guns up on the farm. Now.. where's my boots...
The Good Book!!! I love it!!!!!!
Posted by: Amy | December 02, 2009 at 04:26 PM
An EXCELLENT choice for reading material! I recently found a cd of Douglas Adams himself performing a few sections of some of the books - it's totally worth picking up if you're a fan.
Posted by: trillian42 | November 27, 2009 at 02:23 PM