Daddy hates Thanksgiving food and sit-down meals, and also finds it impossible to rise prior to about three o'clock in the afternoon (and that's on his early days - Daddy is nocturnal), and some times ago professed to Mommy that he absolutely despised Thanksgiving. And when he listed out his reasons why, you know I became a little depressed from simply hearing them. So Mommy had what she called a "daring thought": What if we created our own tradition? What if the holidays could be something Daddy enjoyed? What would that take?
And the idea of the Snack Buffet was born. Last year, Mommy presented an array of our favorite foods, to be nibbled upon and grazed over the course of an evening of movies and video games. And do you know my daddy was actually happy? He said it was the first Thanksgiving he had ever enjoyed. He's been even more excited than I have been this year - all Mommy has to do is say, "Snack Buffet!", and I am a wiggling mess. But Daddy? He wiggles even more than I do. We were so excited this year that it looked like we were having a dance contest when Mommy started cooking last night.
And what was she cooking? Chex Mix! Today, she will be preparing other things. Here is our menu:
- Chex Mix (the true glory of the Snack Buffet)
- Potato chips and dip
- Pita chips and hummus
- Puff pastry sesame sticks (Daddy and I will turn backflips for these!)
- Sausages and cheeses with crackers
- French bread pizzas - one with the pepperonis to make Daddy happy, and a "white" one with the spinaches to make Mommy happy
- Crudite with this yummy dip Mommy makes that has fresh chives and sour cream (Mommy even remembered to get fennel and red bell pepper!)
- Cookie plate
Daddy has Mt. Dew to drink, his favorite, and Mommy has cranberry lime seltzer. And we are all going to gather in Daddy's new cave and dine while we watch all sorts of movies and laugh at Mommy driving around and hitting things in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Mommy was going to make some cornbread dressing to cut into little squares, but I told her not to worry about it when I realized she would spend three hours cooking the Chex Mix and when she told me there would be little slices of French bread pizza. Oh, I am so excited, because it is all so tasty. There is the food that Mommy likes, and the food that Daddy likes, and in the middle there is the Chex Mix that brings us all together.
I truly hope you and yours will enjoy your Thanksgiving as much as we enjoy ours, if you celebrate it. Right now I am going to try to take a nap to make the time pass a little faster until Mommy whips out all of this wonderful goodness. Take a moment today, if you will, to be thankful for just one little thing, maybe, and do do a dance of gratitude for it. For me, that is the most magical way of expressing that I appreciate a thing.
Enjoy your day, and dance some.
Totsi Tatertot Didgeridoo
1 comment:
I hope you had a great day. So glad to see some one break tradition and do what makes them happy. I'm with your hubby despise Thanksgiving and Christmas. Not the normal I don't like the stress, the panic attack I cannot breath I want to run panic. Its hard to put on a happy face, suck it up and make everyone happy while your not. I will continue to do so as long as my mother is here but I struggle with it. I don't like it and really dread it all. Your day sounds perfect
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