Ohio | 2013
If you’ve been reading here for awhile, you know that for the past few years, we’ve road-tripped to Ohio to spend Thanksgiving with Kendrick’s extended family. It’s a trip that we really love – it has historically included things like seat dancing, Quaker Steak ‘n’ Lube wings, stops into the Cracker Barrel gift shop, and sometimes a pregnancy announcement – but this year that trip is obviously not in the cards. All the stuff that we’ve “traditionally” done around the holiday season is going to be a little different now (we’ve decided, for example, to have my parents come out to stay with us before Christmas and then fly to see Kendrick’s family right afterwards), and I guess that’s a little sad…but it’s also going to be fun, figuring out what our new traditions are in this new life we’ve landed in.
Anyway, for this Thanksgiving we’re doing something we’ve never done before: staying at our place and hosting a few East Coast friends who are driving up from LA. Our own kind of little displaced-New-Yorkers-gone-Californian party.
I’m a little overwhelmed by the sheer volume of people who will be staying in our home (and who I will theoretically be cooking for, assuming all goes to plan) that weekend, but still: soooo excited. I want food coming out our ears, mimosas in the morning and cider at night, a tree-decorating party, music and dancing and maybe even a little football (which I now officially like watching thanks to Tim Riggins). Basically, what I’m going for is a holiday explosion in our new house.
Obviously I’m putting together a Pinterest board in preparation. (Not that I’m actually going to be painting pumpkins gold or wrapping cinnamon sticks around candles, but whatever, we can always pretend.)
And, just because, here are two old videos: one kind of fun, one intensely boring, and both largely inexplicable, ’cause that’s how I roll.
Ohio | 2009
I made this video (which was posted on the now-defunct site NonSociety) way back in 2009 during our Thanksgiving trip to Ohio, because I had just started blogging and thought that I needed to do things like random video updates about…nothing.
I literally say nothing in this video.
(Well not “literally.” I say things. They’re just not especially interesting things.)
Ohio | 2014
(I like this video – from our 2014 road trip – way better. Mostly because I did the Atomic Challenge in it.)
