I have pretty much taken over the holidays in our family. It's not that I like to cook big, extravagant meals, or even that I
particularly love hosting gatherings...We just have the biggest house. There's
plenty of room for everyone, and it also makes it easier now that I have
Ryleigh and Reagan, to be able to keep them home and everyone come to us.
I'm not a great cook. I can
cook. I can follow a recipe. But I'm just not really sure I'm ready for
that which is cooking a giant turkey. So anyway, Matt, being the amazing
husband that he is, purchased a groupon for Thanksgiving catering. It seemed
pretty amazing. We were going to get turkey, dressing, all the fixin's and
dessert. My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles planned to cook everything
else. Not that we really needed much else, but we are just a go overboard kind of
family. Wednesday afternoon, Matt took me to pick up the food we ordered. We
came to the address listed for the business, and I happily went in to pick up
our gourmet thanksgiving dinner (that I didn't have to cook!!). Well...I go into
this office building, which seems like a strange place to pick up food, and
there is a very long line of angry-looking people. So, I get my place in line
and quickly ask what's going on. Apparently, their delivery truck that was
bringing everyone's food to this building to be picked up, was in a car
accident. ALL of the food was ruined. This was a small business, and there
was literally one lady trying to deal with all of these hysterical people, because they didn't have
the expected food....the day before Thanksgiving. She told everyone that their plan was to re-cook all
of the ordered meals, and schedule deliveries for Thanksgiving day. I patiently
waited, and when it was my turn to get my delivery scheduled, the poor lady
looked blankly at her computer screen and started crying. Hard. She lost
EVERYTHING. All those deliveries that she had scheduled...gone. I felt sorry
for her, and told her just to give me a call back later that evening once they
figured out what they were going to do...but by the time I made it back down to
the car, I had pretty much already decided that we weren't getting our
Thanksgiving meal. She never called, so I tried calling her several times with
no answer....I had my WTF am I going to do moment...and then Matt came to the rescue. He calmed me
down, took me to the grocery store...and he and I cooked all night for
Thanksgiving the next day. I'm actually glad everything happened the way it
did. I didn't *want* to cook, but once we were forced, he and I had fun doing
it together. :)
And on a side note, Matt got an email from groupon at 11pm , the night before Thanksgiving, apologizing because no one was going to get their food. I feel bad for all the people before me who scheduled their deliveries. I bet there were plenty that didn't get the email, and were waiting for their food deliveries on Thanksgiving. What a mess!
For our family, it all worked out, and Thanksgiving was lovely. My aunt
Julie, uncle Mike and cousins Stephanie and Haley came in from Lubbock, and
stayed the weekend. We went shopping at the galleria on Black Friday. That was
a little crazy, but fun. All in all, a really good Thanksgiving weekend! :)
I am, however, very mad at myself because I didn't take any pictures. The only ones I have from that weekend are a couple that my aunt took with her cell phone when we were at the galleria. Grrrrr
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| My beautiful cousins, Haley & Stephanie |
