Holidays Honett-Style

This holiday season is the first for us together as an official family. And with the recent moving, wedding and traveling, we are taking this opportunity to lay low and create some new traditions of our own. While we haven't completely decided what this will entail for us, we do have a few ideas of what we'd like to do.

This weekend we are going to spend preparing a bunch of recipes we've always wanted to try and also add in a few we can't live without.  The menu so far consists of gluten-free stuffing with fresh cranberry sauce, homemade gnocchi, lamb curry, bacon-wrapped chestnuts, and soy icecream.  Dee-lish!

Between being away at school, traveling and visiting others for holidays, neither one of us have ever had a Xmas tree of our own. We recently inherited a fake tree and we're looking forward to shopping for decorations. I don't think of myself as at all sentimental, but this feels like a significant opportunity for us to discover what the holidays mean for us as a family and begin to create new traditions. Perhaps some homemade hot cider is also in order for the occasion.

Today, Thanksgiving day, is filled with small pleasures. A walk this morning all together to get coffee, a big hearty breakfast, an anticipated Harry Potter matinee at the Vista, and an early Xmas present for the pups. Despite their apparent feelings for Santa (see below), I think we are all looking forward to this season of being together.

 DOGGIE THANKSGIVING

We hope everyone has a safe, happy, and abundant holiday!