The last of our guests have already left, and it’s still just Friday. The Christmas trees are out, the holiday songs are playing on the radio… and yes, those crazy neighbors down the street have saturated their home and yard in multicolor bulbs.
We took our full bellies for a walk on the beach this morning and ate all the same food and dessert again this evening. Ooomf.
So what was your Thanksgiving emergency this year? Have you learned the frozen turkey lesson already? Did you forget a key ingredient? Unexpected guests? Busted oven?
Ours was the tablecloth. It seems like a small thing, realizing that we didn’t have the extra large tablecloth that we used two years ago. It meant that we didn’t have any tablecloth at all (just the table runner by itself) for our extra large Thanksgiving dinner on fold-out tables. Not a show-stopper, but kind of deflating to realize at 9am on Thanksgiving day.
If you’ve ever bought curtains at Ikea, you know they all come extra, extra long, and you have to cut them down to size. So randomly, we had four yards of chocolate brown woven fabric chillin’ out in the basement waiting for a good use. HELLO tablecloth.
Mom Hedman and I set up an impromtu sewing shop on the Thanksgiving table, and within 30 minutes we had a huge square tablecloth for the day! Phew!
The rest of the day was spent lounging and chatting with family, and cuddling up with our niece in the evening to watch movies and snack on popcorn. We love the bustle of guests.
Now the holiday shopping continues on Etsy and Amazon!
by stacey
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