Giving Thanks

Thanksgiving can be a toss up for me, lately because I haven’t lived in one place long enough to partake in any of the usual thanksgiving traditions. So when November 22^th started getting closer I wasn’t sure what the day would mean for me, if anything this year. Last year I spent the holiday in Carson City, NV with my boyfriend and two of his co-workers, the day was full of to0 much food and drink. I’m talking an entire keg for just the four of us and pretty much two versions of every typical thanksgiving dish, not to mention the 9lbs turkey that was only eaten by 3 people. The day was fun, one of those holidays that you really try to make like you always remembered it, but it just doesn’t end up the same. We even found ourselves trying to overcome our food comas in a dusty Carson City casino, trying our luck a  roulette, which was very strange for me as I had never even been in a casino prior. Non the less, this year was my second go at normalcy away from my family and its traditions. For all I knew I could have spent the holiday sitting in a both at the local Taco bell with my boyfriend, wondering if the burrito I ordered was truly vegetarian friendly. Luckily that didn’t have to happen. 

 

Holidays should be filled with lots of family and relaxation. This Thanksgiving I can safely say I accomplished both those things. Relaxation in its true form, which came in great majority because my only tasks of the day involve eating and imbibing (probably more of it than I needed). I can also say there was family, which did not show in its typical form of my immediate family, since they live across the country. I was  sharing the day not with my actual family members, but rather my newly founded Arizona family that I acquired that Coconino Center for the Arts. Having such a small work community and being new to the area it seems quite natural that they have become my adoptive family, so to spend a day of thanks with them seems quite fitting, as the thing I am probably most grateful as of the late is my little FCP family.  Of course with sharing time with them I was able to meet and mingle with their immediate family members which really tied that whole component of the holiday together. 

I would also like to note that we had 3 different types of pie which, I’m not the biggest fan of, but I know they challenge the Turkey for the most iconic part of the entire dinner. All 3 pies were made by the lovely Robin Cadigan the eve of Thanksgiving as I assisted, and I uses that word loosely because I was really more of a coach than anything, but I must say they sure we a hit! As they should be, seeing that we stayed up til 2 am crafting them.  I will have to attempt to work on my pie liking ability for the next holiday season, but then again who knows what that holiday will bring.