That's an accomplishment.
I love to cook, and I'm getting better and better at it, I think. But a Thanksgiving meal has a lot of components, some tricky, and to have everything come together as well as it did was quite a shock to me.
Now, to be fair, it was a very low-key feast. In fact, feast is probably misleading. It just had the staples: turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, and dinner rolls. In hindsight, a vegetable would have been wise. Maybe next year.
With work and crazy weather, heading home for the holidays -- including Thanksgiving, my birthday (yes, that IS a holiday), Christmas, New Years, and maybe even Easter -- just isn't a realistic option. I'm hoarding all of my time off to take a long trip home in the spring, but until then, I've got to make the best of what I have here in North Dakota.
Rather than sulk about working on my favorite holiday or being away from my family, my boyfriend and I decided to have a little Thanksgiving of our own. And ya know what? I liked it. It was missing some key components (including my aunt's broccoli and cheese casserole -- it's heaven in a crockpot), but it was special in its own way.
And after yesterday, I'm confident we can make all the holidays between now and May -- or whenever it stops blizzarding here -- just as special.
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