So this year we went out for Thanksgiving dinner. I just was not in the mood to cook a meal for 2 days that we only enjoyed for 20 minutes and then spend as much time cleaning up after it as I did to prepare it. We went to Tokyo Gardens, which is a buffet that has Japanese and Chinese cuisine. Usually they have a hot section of the buffet with hot Chinese dishes like Low Mien, which I love, and I was planning on getting full on that and Tuna rolls. Well we got there and the hot section was full of this attempt at an American Thanksgiving feast complete with dry turkey and a watery ham.
But the tuna was fresh from the sushi bar! But not exactly filling.
While the kids said it was the best Thanksgiving ever, [and Ethan even said that why we were in the spirit of trying new things, do we have to have a pine tree for a Christmas Tree? (yes, Ethan. We do have to have a pine tree for a Christmas tree. No willows or birch or alders. Just pine, but glad you are adventurous)]
I had a bummer of a day and have since had string of bummer days.
I just missed being home. You know playing 5 Crowns with my siblings and mom. Or dishing a 22 nieces and nephews some leftover turkey and mashed taters at the farm. Laughing with my sister over her near holiday disaster of a still frozen turkey. Even giving my grandmother and Step mother a bad time for not including rolls on the menu (which they now have every year since I made a stink about it 8 years ago...bear in mind we had driven 20 hours to see them, but Carol, bless her heart, even ran to Wal-mart 15 miles away to get me rolls Thanksgiving morning).
Anyway, I don't know if I just wasn't busy enough and got a reality check that as "full" as my life is here and as much "fun" as we have, is this all really a poor substitute for what really matters most to me? But my kids are always going to remember the Thanksgiving we were the only people who spoke English at the Chinese restaurant. Is this really enough. I used to laugh at girls in college who pined after their family (in American Fork for crying out loud while mine were in New York). But it seems these last few days I have been one of them.
I have even been thinking how there are only 370 days (didn't really forget that countdown even though I haven't mentioned it lately) until we could move home. And with Obama putting a freeze on federal paychecks over the next few years (oh and I have a blog post about that one especially since our insurance is going up like a lot this year. ) maybe we should just go home...
Monday, November 29, 2010
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I always seem to down play Thanksgiving as NOT being a homesick holiday...after all my family just gets together and eats for a few hours. But it is the one holiday that I seem to be more homesick than ever! For me it's not the Thanksgiving day it's self, it the day after full of Black Friday shopping and craft fairs, decorating for Christmas and starting the holiday festivities. I love Alaska but definitely not as much as my family! I am not secretly counting down the days until we can move back home! On that note I should probably get back to studying for finals so I can graduate and we can move home!
We missed you guys too! But Thanksgiving is just one day, how do the rest of your days weigh in? And it sounds like your kids had a blast. What we really need to figure out is how to become millionaires so we can fly back and forth all the time! :) Love you, sis!
PS- yep, we just pulled over to the side of the road to cut down the tree. There is designated land on the mountain where you can do that. Brooke was watching a movie in the truck, so we didn't want to go too far off the road.
This is definitely the time of year I get a bit nostalgic and homesick. Yes, I know I have no excuse since my parents live only 6 hours away, but the holidays do that to you I think. I am looking forward to starting my advent calendar activities and making some of my own family holiday memories, which is what you guys are doing. Know that while you are missing family, you are all being missed too!
P.S. Nicole, just find something to be thankful about in all of this, ha ha... let me refer you to the best 10 talks I've heard on gratitude lately:) Oh, and that is me with the baby bump on my blog, not Avree!
No baby bump here, just a little too much pumpkin pie :)
Your runner and envelopes look awesome! Where did you get your fabric? Whenever I want to sew something I hate all the fabric when I go shopping.
We went to eat Thanksgiving dinner at a Chinese restaurant when we lived in Texas. I felt just as displaced as you do in Alaska. I will NEVER forget it. Being traditional just didnt work for us in such a foreign place! Just remember wherever you are you will have crappy weeks and wish for what you dont have. Miss you lots lately!!
Yeah that bites. Oops, bad pun.
It's those long Alaska nights isn't it? Better get yourself some Vitamin D for the duration of your internment. Someday you'll get to click those ruby heels together.
We do this on Christmas eve. I am all about the no-cooking deal!
I am so sorry you were homesick. I know that has got to be hard. Hang in there....
Don't you dare leave. I need you!
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