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I’ve survived yet another family gathering. And I’ve eaten so many bad things that I’m ashamed to be in the same cafe as you.
Andi, nothing eaten at a family gathering is bad for you! You must eat whatever you want, just to survive.
Do you want to put your feet up? Can I get you something soothing to drink? What would you like? I’m so glad you’re back!
I’ve had pastrami, corned beef, brisket, potato kugel, rye bread, spinach balls, marinated cucumbers, chopped liver. I’ve had more meat tonight than I have probably eaten in the last two months. I don’t think even you can grant dispensation but I really appreciate the effort.
Just think how pleased Dr. Atkins would be, bless his little heart.
Spinach balls? What’s that?
spinach, eggs, cheese, onions, chopped pine nuts, various seasonings mixed together, shaped into balls, and baked.
This, at least sounds very good.
I have a recipe for those too! They are a very good football Sunday food!
You have a recipe, and you haven’t shared it yet? Are you holding out on us? 🙂
Tee-hee.
Just posted in this morning’s cafe! FYI!
You could be a candidate for Mad Kosher Disease!
to hell with candidate — I’m post doc.
Hey there, Andi — take a hot beverage; it’ll help your digestion.
Hope the gathering wasn’t too stressful for you.
Great diary, WW. I loved your letter to NPR, and feel the same way about the use of the word “terrorist.”
Hey, thank you, SN! I posted the diary in hopes I might voice some common thoughts (as well as to encourage other folks to talk back).
Thanks. I’m just bad at large gatherings and worse when the large gatherings are family ones, especially since my mother goes into a frenzy of worrying over every detail. But it’s all really just the basic annoying bits of life.
Went and read your diary — very good stuff there (not too cogent a remark but that’s all brain can do at the moment).
No problem at all, Andi — I appreciate your taking time to read it.
It’s been so long since I attended a large family gathering I’ve forgotten how I feel about them.
Your restraint is remarkable, katiebird. That pizza looks fabulouso and you trying to be oh so good and not eat between meals.
We finally got the tree decorated today with all of the homemade ornaments and childlike decorations from when the kids were little. It’s my favorite part of the Christmas season but this year every time someone pulled an ornament out of it’s wrapping it caused such a pang in my heart that it was all I could do not to cry and ruin everyone’s day. Everything is changing and I’m afraid we’ll never all be together again.
How wonderful that you managed to keep those wonderful ornaments, SN. Nothing whatsoever remains of the many, many creative things I spent so much time on as a child — leaving no sense of my younger years at all, no opportunity to be touched by them.
What a bittersweet experience it seems you’ve had. I don’t know anything at all about the changes you’re undergoing, but I can offer a thought on what you’ve shared: it’s simply impossible for any of us to know the future; our fears often aren’t realized at all.
I’m one of those people who detests change, even though I know that it’s often a good thing. All of my children are on the verge of leaving home and I know that’s a good thing; that it means I did my job. But I’ve just had a crappy couple of weeks and it’s hard not to think that I’ve already lived my best days…but didn’t know it at the time! When I’m in a better frame of mind I can see all the wonderful possibilities for the future, but right now it’s just impossible for me to see this change as a positive one. I wish I hadn’t had my children when I was so young. Most of my friends still have young kids at home and my baby is 15!
Oh, just give me a drink and smack me…I’ll come around! 🙂
SN — We’ve got a weird situation. We never have our kids at Christmas (they spend all holidays and birthdays with their mom) but until last month the middle boy lived with us (and he’s 28). The youngest is 23 and probably going to move in after graduation. And the oldest lived with us until he was 26 & his youngest was 2 years old.
So, you just never know — you could have them around for another 15 or 20 years!
and especially if you are resistant to change, that will add another element to it.
But your situation has a very bright silver lining that in your sadness, you may overlook.
There is much to be said for waiting to become a parent at a later age, but everything has trade-offs, and the later in life one begins the parenting journey, the more likely one is to discover that when they have “left the nest,” some of those things you always imagined you might do once that happened are now no longer so attractive, or easy to do, or maybe not even possible, because the years have passed, and worries about the children – diapers and grades and broken arms and learning to drive – have shifted into concerns about one’s own cholesterol and retirement and an annoying stiffness in that knee one had planned to use to climb Everest once the youngest was safely packed off to college or the bridal bower.
You, though, will have many more options and flexibility as you contemplate all the possibilities of “what now?”
Just as the smorgasbord of life is spread out before your children as they enter adulthood, so is it spread out for you!
Beautifully said.
Hi SN!! We’ll be eating that pizza for a week, now that there are just the two of us. It was the best he’s ever made — that’s why I took the photo.
Your ceremony sounds fun — You are very lucky to have your children with you at Christmas time. Lot’s of people don’t have that ever. (not that I’m going to whine about it)
4 more days, counting Sunday, of sweatin’ and snackin’ an’ packin’ the toys for all our paying girls & boys. Then we can enjoy the Holidays® in the true spirit of the season.
I couldn’t believe the mail lady was able to grab these boxes without tipping them over!
‘Bout 9 PST I’ll be up out of the shop to grab a beer & put up my feet.
Have you ever posted photos of your wares?
Hi, Katiebird,
Although food is the very last thing I want to face right now, I can tell this Lounge is going to have healthier stuff than last night. I was ready for a fast after those various excesses.
BTW, wilderness, good to hold NPR’s feet to the fire!
Greatly appreciate your encouragement, Kidspeak. Frankly, their reporting now nauseates me even more than some of last night’s recipes did.
Well, I just hope I won’t be getting the same type of scorching letter directed towards me over those recipes!
Great letter, WW.
Hey, you weren’t the only one. I posted the spamarama listing, didn’t I? And the cramp medicine recipe?
I think WW may be up all night writing letters to all of us “offenders” in that thread… 🙂
Thanks, CabinGirl.
Not to worry about a reprimand for the recipes. It was a fine party — & I’m still tittering like a loon over Toilet Boy.
I think he’s still out there, if you want to take a look.
LOL
No need; he’ll live forever in my memory.
I prefer to think of him as the “hottie on the potty”. 🙂
I’ve got my own image of one of those, actually — from the outhouse, no less. Quite lovely. (Inappropriate to share, unfortunately.)
And a dbl. Hot Toddy to knock the chill off.
Check out this Bud Lite commercial, wmp…very funny…hope this works.
Peace
are high in calories!
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I don’t think that’s a high calorie pizza. It’s made from scratch and there’s nothing bad in it.
It looks delicious, btw. Very appetizing.
Can I have a couple of slices to keep for breakfast in the morning?
Absolutely, I hope everyone helps themselves. And most of you, I think can have seconds!
to be high in calories…and the pizza is served with beer.
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I guess I’m saying that I don’t think it’s particularly high in calories. I have one slice with a handful of oven-baked “french fries”. And it doesn’t come close to busting my budget for calories. It fit’s right into the day.
We’re pretty careful about the ingredients we put on it.
and count the calories 🙂
Your food forgiveness seems nicely appropriate for a sunday morning.
Me, I’m think of eating nothing but plain salad for the next five days as penance for yesterday.
Thanks, Andi,
Don’t beat yourself up about the food you ate, I really do believe that the food you eat at a family gathering is only what’s necessary to get through the day.
You know what I say, “Just for today” which means not looking back at yesterday or on to tomorrow.
(I’m trying to put together my messages first to family & friends about the Press For Impeachment Now (my name for it) campaign, then to Office holders and Letters to the Editor). I can’t remember what I thought I would do today.
But, I’m pretty sure that it isn’t as important as that.
I’ve got a new signature in honor of the campaign.
for me, at least. We decided just tonight that we aren’t traveling to Ky for the holidays, and I have to gird myself with more courage to tell my mom tomorrow. All my siblings are traveling to her house (we mostly live very far away from her), so I’m feeling guilty already.
At least you can tell her by phone, Kidspeak. Then it’s done.
True. But I do so hate using the phone, and I am already sprouting the feathers. Nonetheless, I have to get this over with. . .plus the inevitable follow-up calls to the other 3 siblings. Sigh. E-mail just doesn’t cut it for some things.
True, unfortunately.
I sympathize. Each year at about this time I’ve got to convince my mom that I’m not arriving in Miami Beach for Christmas, nor will I stay for the rest of my life when I get there.
Hope you can manage the calls smoothly.
Thanks, much appreciated. I”m getting it over with first thing.
G’nite, and keep those hot letters churning!
Thanks.
I’m headed out too, if I can stop giggling over CabinGirl’s ‘hottie on the potty’.
See you later!
I just had me a slice of honest-to-god key lime pie. A pie I got for free. Just because.* [Sings “Heaven, I’m in Heaven”. . . tum te tum dum. . . ]
*Because I said nice things to the guy behind the deli counter. Serendipity happened. Or maybe Christmas/Xmas/Holiday spirit. Ain’t life amazin’?
I just got me a free thing in the mail… Well, it was really a prize… lol
A big 8 X 10 envelope from NorthDakotaDem.
Thanks for the picture!
I heard free pizza… Count me in! Yum…
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