Pumpkin and Spice

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving yesterday (today? I'm still up... but I guess it's technically no longer Thanksgiving...)

Since the ski season hasn't officially started, the resort was closed on Thanksgiving. Our busy day was the day before, making pies for orders. Sissy and I had been trying to find a restaurant in town that was doing a reasonably priced Thanksgiving dinner (Park City has a lot of pricy restaurants... but not many that are good for girls on a budget!) However, one of our co-workers took pity on us and invited us to Thanksgiving dinner. There were nine of us- Sissy, me, our co-worker, her hubby and two kids, and another couple and their daughter. We were a little afraid that it'd be weird and uncomfortable celebrating a family-centric holiday with strangers, but everyone was so friendly and warm, that it didn't take long before we felt like we belonged just as much as everyone else.

Tonight Kyle and I had a lovely meal. The food itself was nothing extraordinary- as I mentioned before, we're sort of in leftover/pantry mode, so dinner was just some leftover french onion soup with toasted 3-day old bread from the bakery I work at, some chicken from the freezer that I rubbed with herbs and garlic, and canned green beans with balsamic vinegar. (We don't eat many canned veggies, but the beans were leftover from a potluck dinner at Kyle's dad's work... long story...) The food was simple, and I tried to make it pretty and appealing. We had it with a glass of wine from the other night.

What made dinner tonight so nice was the atmosphere. I cleaned the papers and old mail off the dining room table, lit a candle and laid down placemats. We put on the "love song" music station on the TV for some ambient music, and ate dinner slowly, enjoying each other's company. I'll admit- for a long time, we didn't have a dining room table, so our only option was eating dinner at the coffee table, and the habit had carried on, even though we now have a very nice dining set. We also are guilty of the habit of catching up on our DVR'd episodes of Hell's Kitchen and Lost while eating dinner.