I have much to be thankful for.
We moved into our new home two days before Thanksgiving. As much as I had hoped to cook Thanksgiving dinner here it was not to be. And even I had to accept that, try as I might to figure a way to do it.
We just cut it a bit too close. The days before the move we spent moving out of the rental apartment, and the day of the move was a very long day, to say the least.
And Wednesday we began unpacking the first of the 300 boxes that made the trip from Maryland the end of June, and were finally released from the confines of the warehouse where they have been stored these past five months.
The important thing is our children were with us, and we had a wonderful dinner at an excellent restaurant located at a beach resort overlooking the Pacific Ocean . We ate on the lovely patio and watched the sunset from our table.
Dining in this astonishingly beautiful setting and looking into the faces of our sons sitting across from us both my husband and I realized the journey we began a couple of years ago which has had more than a few twists in the road was complete.
And we couldn’t be happier.
After many years of being on two different coasts we are now within several hours of each other.
We are in a brand spanking new (as my son says) home, in a storybook town, and we are very eager to make it ours.
As you probably may have heard, this year Hanukkah began the evening before Thanksgiving so for the first time in very many years we lit the menorah with our children. On Friday morning I decided to make potato latkes for breakfast with homemade applesauce. I had made the applesauce at the apartment the night before we moved.
It was my first time cooking on the new gas range and I had two skillets going. It felt great!
And while I was busy with that both of my sons and my younger son’s girlfriend were helping us with the monumental unpacking. In fact I couldn’t mix the latkes until my younger son finally located the box with the mixing bowls. Miracle of miracles!
We spent several hours in the afternoon at one of the the local vineyards (10 miles from our door) , and again I felt like I had to keep pinching myself as we shared a wine tasting together overlooking the vineyards.
So in the next weeks we will be continuing to unpack, and I will be learning my way around this new kitchen. Can’t wait to share some new recipes with you very soon!
Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Hanukkah !