"Once in a while, right in the middle of ordinary life, Love gives us a fairytale." - Anonymous
Found that quote while I was actually looking for something else. And I immediately loved it. ^_^
Happy after Thanksgiving! Bring on the Merry Christmas!! I love this time of year. It is my absolute favorite. For different reasons. But this year is particularily special to me. For different reasons.
For one - it's safe to say we made it through our first married Thanksgiving. Without the in-law horror stories I've heard. I'm sure we've all heard. No scenes from "Everybody Loves Raymond" here. :) Thank goodness.
I will admit to have a large mix of emotions (most women do - duh...) but none were really bad. I guess I felt a little pressure but not in a bad way. It wasn't a "DON'T MESS UP THIS DISH OR YOU'RE GONNA DIE!" type. It was more "I love baking this so much I sure hope they like it as much as I do!" pressure. I guess I felt more excited. Maybe pressure isn't the right word.... And I was super pinterest happy. I was looking up recipes galore on that thing. My Pinterest ID is almstphotogrphr if you ever wanna see the enchanting madness I love to look at :) Or you can just click my ID. :)
Last entry I talked about how sometimes I feel like I live in my own personal fairytale. This is what my Fairytale Thanksgiving consisted of:
Wednesday:
The mister off since the school is on break but he still had to coach. I worked. Until 5. Rushed home free from accidents and running red lights. ;) Made Cranberry Apple Walnut Stuffing and Pumpkin Dip.
Here is where the fairytale becomes absolutely enchanting: In the middle of all this I discovered there was something hokie with our water pressure. As in, we didn't have any. Nor did we have warm water. -_- I like to wash as I go when I cook so this was not making me happy. I gave up and left what I absolutely didn't need again in the sink. After sighing at the thought of having to come back and face it later I moved on with life and finished my cooking project and got ready to go to my parents for dinner. Had fun over there. We talked, we laughed - it moved me bob. and I loved seeing my puppy. We would have her if we could.
Thursday:
Slept in. Woke up. Started cooking stuff again. Half way through cooking I ran into this:
That goes to my mixer. =( I was making cheesecake filling for strawberries. I popped it back how it belongs then kept going. I'm not sure how it ended up that way. And if anyone knows where I can get a spare please let me know. Thanks. =)
I was hallowing the strawberries, getting ready to fill them with said filling....and well.... 10 strawberries down and I discovered a worm INSIDE a strawberry!!!!! =-O
Needless to say I didn't finish. I just tossed them. I didn't wanna finish and take them and have an inner panic attack not knowing what else was dwelling in my precious berries.
Enter chocolate cake. Since I can't have the berries. I made chocolate frosting. It was terrible. Long story short I threw in some vanilla extract (had to go to parentals to get it since up until then I didn't own any) and walnuts and I saved it. :)
After I made all that I made this:
Remember I said no water pressure? This affected our shower. So. Bucket showers for the day. lol. Eventful Thanksgiving right? Well it ended up not being the water pressure itself and I'll spare you the gory details and say all is well now. We can wash our dishes. We can shower. With semi warm water. We'll have normal warm water on Monday.
Black Friday:
We bummed it all day. Saw Lincoln at night. I LOVED IT! Loved the man's personality. I think if I lived in his era and was allowed to work with him we may have butted heads many a time but we would have had a good time doing it. I would have loved it. =) And my friend made my day by selling me her camera I've been using. I officially have my own camera. That's a big deal to me. You need your own camera to be a photographer. It's kind of essential. =)
This morning (Saturday) we may have started a new Thanksgiving tradition: Thanksgiving breakfast. Honestly it wasn't all that big. Simple really. Pancakes. Eggs. Bacon. Blueberry Muffins. Cranberry Juice with Ginger Ale. I was gonna make (yes make) apple sauce but discovered I only had one apple left so, so much for that. We cleaned the kitchen. Bummed it a little bit. He's at the UCLA game and here I sit listening to classical piano and blogging even though I should probably be cleaning. I was kinda making a big crafting mess when he was leaving and promsed it would be out of the way when he got home. Poor man. lol.
All of this to say:
Despite the random mishaps. Water. lack of frosting. broken mixer. worm in the strawberries. I enjoyed my thanksgiving. And I'm glad I wasn't super intimidated by what everyone else thinks about x-y-and-z. Don't let the messups mess you up. Enjoy your family for the season you have them. I'm not a pessimist. At least not in this blog post. I'm not running around thinking everyone is going to die tomorrow but I am well aware that we only have them for a season. Enjoy that season.
Share the funny worm stories thank Jesus no one ate it!
Teach someone how not to make bitter chocolate frosting.
Make messes.
DO your Pinterest TO DO list!
Clean the messes.
Take pictures. Take LOTS of pictures. You can't go back and re-live those moments but you can see them through a tiny precious window on paper. I just saw a video of my Naeda while I was at my parents home last Christmas. It was my last Christmas there. I love my husband and I'm SUPER excited for my Christmas with him, but I know I enjoyed the time I had in my parents house. Even the not so good times taught me something. ha. =)
Anyways....I'm off to clean the apartmentcastle.
Happy Thanksgiving. Merry Christmas.
Happy Ever After
--- Annika
