Whether you stayed up late wrapping/putting gifts together or you had a few too many glasses of the good stuff Christmas Eve with family, I hope you are well rested to enjoy your Christmas Day now. For me, it was the latter. However, I planned everything for this holiday season down to the very last detail so I could enjoy this day for a change. In fact, a local gift store helped Santa wrap all the gifts ahead of time, with a little extra coin, but it made it easy. Meal prep for today was done Sunday, and the kids were required to mop, vacuum, and dust for me as part of their chores. Oh, and I allowed them to shove unfolded clothes into their drawers this time, because we had no time to actually fold them. But that’s okay, at least the guest room is officially uncluttered for our arriving guests. That’s a good thing, right?
So I woke up, watched the kids open perfectly wrapped gifts, drank coffee to ease the headache, and then headed to the kitchen. I thought cooking was going to be a breeze. I was wrong. My turkey was still frozen, because I misread the label stating how many pounds that darn bird was. It wasn’t twelve pounds. It was a twenty-one pound turkey. And I swear, I am not dyslexic. But dang it, no way! This was a problem because my parents would be arriving in less than four hours for lunch. Epic fail. Ugh!
So the lesson is that no matter how much planning you do, something is going to go wrong. My solution this time was to pour more coffee, think to myself, “Such is life”, and call the parents. Looks like lunch has become dinner and Ho Ho Ho, now wine will be the beverage of choice.
Jackie Hovorka 