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offcntrWe never have Thanksgiving with family.
To begin with, no kids. Denise is an only child, and all of my siblings are back in the midwest, Wisconsin and Minnesota. The closest relatives, geographically, are her second cousin in Seattle and my nephew in Salt Lake City.
Throw in the fact that this is usually harvest season for us--holiday sales like Clayfolk the previous weekend, Holiday Market ongoing--and Thanksgiving is a stolen day off from a high pressure part of the year.
We still manage a nice meal--turkey, dressing, sweet potatoes and mashed potatoes and gravy and cranberry sauce. Apple/cabbage slaw as well this year. Sparkling apple cider. But it's as much to have enough leftovers that I don't have to cook for the next week as for any other celebration.
This year is actually quieter. Because Holiday Market is scaled back, and outdoors, we don't spend all of Wednesday setting up our fairgrounds booth, loading in pottery. And Friday isn't a sale day at all, so I can relax a little with Denise. The van is already prepped; all I have to do is make cookies.
To begin with, no kids. Denise is an only child, and all of my siblings are back in the midwest, Wisconsin and Minnesota. The closest relatives, geographically, are her second cousin in Seattle and my nephew in Salt Lake City.
Throw in the fact that this is usually harvest season for us--holiday sales like Clayfolk the previous weekend, Holiday Market ongoing--and Thanksgiving is a stolen day off from a high pressure part of the year.
We still manage a nice meal--turkey, dressing, sweet potatoes and mashed potatoes and gravy and cranberry sauce. Apple/cabbage slaw as well this year. Sparkling apple cider. But it's as much to have enough leftovers that I don't have to cook for the next week as for any other celebration.
This year is actually quieter. Because Holiday Market is scaled back, and outdoors, we don't spend all of Wednesday setting up our fairgrounds booth, loading in pottery. And Friday isn't a sale day at all, so I can relax a little with Denise. The van is already prepped; all I have to do is make cookies.
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