Every Thanksgiving for the past decade has played out pretty much the same in our household as we travel out of state to celebrate with family. (NOTE TO BURGLARS: We have house-sitters!)
No doubt you have holiday scripts that make ours look normal by comparison. If so -- and if you are traveling -- you can use our timeline this year to help stay on schedule (even though it's copyrighted).
So here's our timeline:
7:45 a.m.: Wake up and check to see whether the apple pie baked the previous night is still intact.
8:21 a.m.: Smell of bacon mingling with residual apple pie aroma to stir sleepyhead sons.
8:45 a.m.: Sound effects added to olfactory prompts to awaken slumbering sons: 'Tuuuurkey and graaaavy! Yuuuuuum! Puuuuuumpkin and Appppppple Piiiiiie! Yuuuuuuum ..... !'
8:46 - 8:55 a.m.: Pack car (except pie), tend plants.
8:56 a.m.: Check to see if apple pie is still intact.
9:00 a.m.: First meltdown warning given.
9:01 - 9:09 a.m.: Breakfast
9:10 a.m.: Second meltdown warning given.
9:11 - 9:20 a.m.: Tidy up the house.
9:20 - 9:50 a.m.: Take a nap, thereby avoiding the drama associated with three people trying to shower simultaneously but separately.
9:51 a.m.: Check and pack the apple pie.
10:00 a.m.: Meltdown
10:01 - 11:01 a.m.: Everyone gets in and out of the car.
11:02 - 11:09 a.m.: False starts to retrieve map/GPS/phone charger/EZ Pass/pillow.
11:10 - 11:59 a.m.: Sitting in traffic going west on the Mass. pike.
12:00 - 12:59 p.m.: Sitting in traffic in Connecticut.
1:00 - 1:59 p.m.: Sitting in traffic in New York.
2:00 - 2:59 p.m.: Sitting in traffic in New Jersey.
3:00 - 3:59 p.m.: Sitting in traffic in Pennsylvania.
4:00 p.m.: Arrive at destination.
4:01 p.m.: Dessert menu item changed from apple pie to apple crumble.
4:02 p.m.: Family, food, wine, music, kids, puppies, surprises, laughter, thanks, hugs, sharing .......
You can take the chick out of the state for Thanksgiving, but you can't take the state of Thanksgiving out of the chick ....
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Gobble gobble! Count off your blessings! Gobble gobble gobble!
Pass it along and remember, It's all (c)opyrighted(c)2011(c)(c)
Note to Chick:
ReplyDeleteThis year, we're eating around 2, so please be sure to schedule your meltdown, nap, etc., about 3 hours earlier, or else the only thing that you'll be eating for Thanksgiving will be apple pie, er, make that apple crumble.
;-)
#3 Sister/Hostess