Note: Today’s post was prompted by yesterday’s post about Christmas mishaps. I have a feeling we’ll see a few more on the topic this year. Enjoy.
Last year’s Christmas mishap might just have started a Christmas tradition in this family!
The turkey went into the oven and we waited and waited and waited. My son went to go baste the turkey for me and he came out saying that the bird was cooking really slowly and it would be a lot longer until it was ready. We put in a movie and waited and waited and waited.
My daughter went in to check and then called her boyfriend in to the kitchen. There was some discussion in there. We were all pretty much starving by then. Out they come with sad looks to tell me that the element in my oven is not working. There is only one working, the bottom one. The top element is not working at all. That bird was not cooking.
What to do? Well, I will eat just about anything. My son has learned to eat all sorts of food even though he was pretty fussy about food up through high school. But my daughter is really picky. We all looked at each other wondering what would make Tina happy.
We could go out to eat but what was open at 7 o’clock at night on Christmas Day besides Denny’s?
Chinese food! We looked at Tina. She must have been really hungry. She agreed. So we piled into two cars and off we went to a Chinese buffet where we were seated immediately and we all found enough to make our tummies full and our hearts happy!
It turned out so well that Tina said that we should do that every year. Why dirty the kitchen and work so hard in there when we could just enjoy the day and go out for Chinese for dinner? So this year, that’s one of the ideas on the table. It’s too soon to decide and we’ll have a couple of different people for Christmas dinner this year so we’ll see but that idea is not yet off the table!