Friday of this week marks the eleventh anniversary of the day I walked down the aisle to my waiting FarmBoy looking so very dapper in his tux with tails. This is the year when anyone asking QM when our anniversary is will get a correct answer. She always says, "The day after Thanksgiving." The year we got married, it was indeed the day after Thanksgiving. She just never seems to remember that Thanksgiving comes on a different day each year.
So now the question stands, how do we celebrate the day? I'm voting for a night out without the FarmHands. Specifically dinner that comes from a restaurant without a drive-thru and a movie that is not animated. Since I'm not good at dropping hints & he's not good at picking them up, I said, "We could go to Evansville for dinner & a movie. I'd like to go to Texas Roadhouse. Good steaks. Oh, and we could go see Quantum of Solace or Twilight." To which he replied, "What?!" He hates going to E'ville. And it's Black Friday. I don't want to eat at Pizza Hut or Long Johns & do not really like the local theater. Then there's the question of a baby sitter. Hmmm...QM & Daddy should be around then. We shall see.
Until then, I think it's about time for another round of Ask FarmWife. It's been a few weeks, so you should have some good questions for me. So....what do you want to know?
9 comments:
Is it sacrilegious to have roast chicken on Thanksgiving? Currently, it's not wise for me to cross the border further than to get my mail, and the exchange rate is brutal (1.28 CAD = 1 USD). And I cannot bring myself to pay $40-60 on a turkey here for two people. But I have a chicken in the freezer that I essentially got for $3 months ago on a great sale in WA. Is there anything wrong with not having turkey? Will I regret this?
If you did find out your doctor didn't truly know how to tie knots....1. what would you name child #5, and 2. how much would your lawsuit request, and 3. what would you do with it (you must include a visit to Canada)
Okay, biting my evil tongue as I await your gracious and creative answers. =)
HA HA HA! OK...so bypass the whole turkey, and get a turkey breast...but I'm not Farmwife...so there!
Here's my Question for AFD -
How, precisely do you tell your MIL to butt out when you're having a disciplinary session with your 29 month old son?
How do you explain to said son that Grandma has WAAAAAYYYYY different rules than at home, and to "buck up little camper" because we'll be home soon enough and he can rule the roost once again?
OY!
I'm not FarmWife but I want to answer.
Inkling: Turkey is too much for two. Have a hen, or a roast or something special that you usually do not have that is cheaper than turkey. I do not even like turkey but we usually have it twice a year. I prefer just the legs and thighs. You will have no regrets and chicken makes as good, or better, dressing. YOu celebrate with chicken and have money left for Christmas.
If it's a girl, Sue and if it's a boy, Sir Sue. I think I would charge whatever the projected price is for raising a child through college. The Canada part I can't help with so with the money I would use a travel agent.
Kork: That's a good one! Tell her you are trying to train your child as wonderfully as she trained your hubby. I guess, simplify it...Grandma's House, Grandma's rules...to a certain extent. Where is hubby in all this?
Okay, so my hubby let me buy insurance for one day to travel across the border further than just my mailbox. Safeway was having a sale on turkeys - $0.39 per pound for the size I was wanting, and you just had to spend $25 on top of that. And I had an awesome coupon to use up at the local bookstore there that let me get a couple Christmas gifts for my hubby.
I loaded up on a turkey breast (you can't buy those here for some weird reason), a BOGO offer for 2 pounds of bacon (now in my freezer), two cornish hens, and some other fun treats we can't get here. Meat - even at Safeway - is WAY cheaper in Washington than here, so I won out, even with the sucky exchange rate. Oh, and my big turkey cost me $5.55, and we'll be using it for Christmas, and making pot pies out of the leftovers on Boxing Day to take around to folks in need like we did last year.
It's a good thing I didn't go into labor, because that wouldn't have been covered by the insurance. Outside of that and the fact that the Canadian border guard was rather rough with me for accidentally moving ahead before he turned the light to green at the crossing after the car in front of me left, I had a wonderful time in my last jaunt into the land of pilgrim's pride and all that jazz. Oh, and the 360 degree view of mountains in Canada and the USA was stunning, unobscured by clouds or haze, which is rather miraculous.
So Farmwife, you can ignore my question. We're either having chicken or cornish hens for Thanksgiving. I think God probably likes my Christmas turkey idea better anyway.
But I still want to hear your opinion on my second question. Because you could really have fun with it if you wanted to. =)
I'm going to give you a real challenge here:
Is there any way to cook a whole small roasting chicken (bones and all that) in a crockpot?
What's a yummy but healthy cookie recipe?
P.S. I know you can't "roast" a chicken in the crock pot. But I don't necessarily want to roast it, just to cook it in some tasty way, because I don't have a roasting pan
Dinner with the farmhands? are you out of your noggin? Isn't that a daily occurence? Dinner without the farmhands sound much better to me for a nice anniversary! :o) Whatever you decide, happy anniversary and happy turkey day!
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