We love decorating for the holidays so our tradition is to have our long-time friend Marc over for Thanksgiving dinner and spend the rest of the weekend decorating for the holidays. Rocke smokes a turkey breast on the Big Green Egg and we stuff a turkey as well, leaving many leftovers for everyone.Rocke and I are spending our thirty-fifth holiday together and over the years our holiday traditions have changed. When we were first together we spent Thanksgiving with Rocke’s family and Christmas with mine. When Rocke’s mother passed away the tradition changed. We called my parents to see if they would like to join us for Thanksgiving, but were rebuffed with, “we now have our own tradition of lobster for two.”
We have spent the last several years remodeling our kitchen and living room and this year we changed our holiday decorations colors to match the new look. We pulled apart over a hundred white silk poinsettias; spray painted the white parts red and put them back together again. It was a great deal of work but we were pleased with the final result. Once they are done it is only a matter of pulling them from the boxes and hanging them up. It was fun coming up with the new look but we hope to not to have to do it again within the next decade.
