Post Thanksgiving Thoughts
Nov. 24th, 2007 12:10 pm Now that the holiday is over, let us mull....
Much as my family may drve me slightly batty at times, we're all still pretty good. No feuds, no pointless arguments at the holiday table, no drunken rants. Having heard how bad other families can get, I'm very thankful for that. I'm doubly thankful that my parents and my in laws all get along, so we can host one big party on Thanksgiving rather than trying two visit two smaller ones.
I'm also thankful that my parents will be taking the wee one today so we can have a night off. We're seeing Enchanted followed by dinner at a simple tavern for some low impact adult time. Much needed as the holidays approach and our increasingly mobile and willful toddler consumes more of mommy's life energy per day.
I'm thankful that some aggressive pre planning means that most of our holiday shopping is either done or planned. One less stressor in the next five weeks. I'm also thankful that my parents seem to grasp the "donations in lieu of presents" idea so I'm not scrambling to list stuff I don't want.
I'm making mental notes on this as we're approaching the Emirikolian thanksgiving style celebration in game, neatly scheduled to coniicide with the PCs heroic return. This will likely include the cooking of a Grybulgon (a griffin stuffed with a bulette stuffed with a dragon), the traditional heroic feast as noted by![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
40yearsagotoday. The hard to find meats for this delicacy are generally procured by lower level adventurers, insuring that the wheel of "giving low level PCs things to do" continues to turn.
Much as my family may drve me slightly batty at times, we're all still pretty good. No feuds, no pointless arguments at the holiday table, no drunken rants. Having heard how bad other families can get, I'm very thankful for that. I'm doubly thankful that my parents and my in laws all get along, so we can host one big party on Thanksgiving rather than trying two visit two smaller ones.
I'm also thankful that my parents will be taking the wee one today so we can have a night off. We're seeing Enchanted followed by dinner at a simple tavern for some low impact adult time. Much needed as the holidays approach and our increasingly mobile and willful toddler consumes more of mommy's life energy per day.
I'm thankful that some aggressive pre planning means that most of our holiday shopping is either done or planned. One less stressor in the next five weeks. I'm also thankful that my parents seem to grasp the "donations in lieu of presents" idea so I'm not scrambling to list stuff I don't want.
I'm making mental notes on this as we're approaching the Emirikolian thanksgiving style celebration in game, neatly scheduled to coniicide with the PCs heroic return. This will likely include the cooking of a Grybulgon (a griffin stuffed with a bulette stuffed with a dragon), the traditional heroic feast as noted by
40yearsagotoday. The hard to find meats for this delicacy are generally procured by lower level adventurers, insuring that the wheel of "giving low level PCs things to do" continues to turn.
