Cheerful Abundance

Cheerful Abundance

a field notebook of suburban life

  • Home
  • About
  • Contact

Odd Thoughs During The Holiday Lull

Posted in Holidays, Reflection by KT
Dec 30 2012

I have had the flu – the real, old-timey, why didn’t I get a flu shot, used to kill people style, capital-I Influenza. For the past 2 weeks, I was mostly confined to my bed, and there are whole days that are lost in a haze of drifting in and out of fever dreams.

Christmas wasn’t exactly the holiday I had planned, because of that flu,  but I am learning to shake off expectations, and just let it go. The kids were happy,and 30 years from now, they aren’t going to remember that we didn’t put up half the decorations, or make reindeer chow, but hopefully they will remember that there was a lot of laughing and I let them eat gingerbread cookies, for breakfast. It is tough, though – I have these glorious holiday ideas in my head; very specific visions of what makes the perfect Christmas. Ideas like, maybe I should start collecting Spode Christmas China, and then we can serve our Christmas dinner on this china, and it will become a lovely, cherished memory for the kids, this special holiday china, and 30 years from now, when my holiday table is expanded to include my childrens’ spouses and grandchildren, this china will be part of a set of treasured memories of every Christmas spent in my home. Clearly, marketing schemes work very well on me.

It is awfully cute. But then I catch myself thinking, well, it is a great idea, but where am I going to store it the other 364 days of the year? It isn’t like this house has a Butler’s Pantry, or a China Storage Room.  And how do you know where to stop, with Spode? I mean, they make everything in this pattern that you could possibly make out of china – hanging balls for the tree, salt and pepper shakers, large china Xmas trees that plug in and have blinking lights on them, cheese spreaders with china handles, highball glasses and dinner menu holders. I worry that once I start down this road, I will feel compelled to buy it all, and Spode is smart: they do limited edition patterns every year, special annual plates, and that kind of marketing really speaks to me. I also fear that, if I buy any of it, my friends and family will recognize it as my ‘thing’, that thing that I collect, and every present I ever get to the end of time will be something in the Spode Christmas pattern.

Clearly, it is a short path from a few pretty dinner plates to this monstrosity: the Spode Figural Deviled Egg Plate.

Internet, these are my first world problems.Should I buy Christmas China? This is what passes for a dilemma, in my fever haze. But I have this debate every year, when it goes on clearance after Christmas. Maybe this is the year. Maybe you are the horrible friend that is going to buy me that deviled egg plate. Hard to say.

Tagged as: acquisitions, being gracious, china, Xmas
February 2019
S M T W T F S
« Mar    
 12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
2425262728  

Smart Ladies

  • Book Nook
  • Elements of Style
  • Faux Fuchsia Style
  • Filthy Commerce
  • Girl Crafts
  • It's A Dog Lick Baby World
  • Jillian Lauren
  • Lemon Drop Pie
  • Life Under the Big Top
  • Rage Against the Minivan
  • Second Blooming
  • Suburban Matron
  • Sugar Hero
  • That's Not My Age
  • The Bloggess

Tags

acquisitions adoption anniversary baking birthday books cake christmas cookies cooking crafty decorating design easter eating Ethiopia family first world problems games giggling gingerbread halloween hats holiday holidays house-hunting inspiration kindergarten milestones paperwork parenting photos poor me reading real estate school shopping sick sick days snow Target travel valentines video Xmas

Archives

  • March 2014
  • February 2014
  • January 2014
  • December 2013
  • November 2013
  • October 2013
  • September 2013
  • August 2013
  • July 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • February 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • December 2011
  • May 2011
  • April 2011
  • March 2011
  • February 2011
  • January 2011
  • December 2010
  • October 2010
  • September 2010
  • August 2010
  • July 2010
  • June 2010
  • May 2010
  • April 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • October 2009
  • September 2009
  • August 2009
  • July 2009
  • June 2009
  • April 2009
  • March 2009
  • February 2009
  • January 2009
Powered by WordPress | “Blend” from Spectacu.la WP Themes Club