What a crazy week..

This whole week has been a mess. I planned on pulling a Christmas with the Cranks and skipping Thanksgiving to go to Mexico with my mom instead, but sadly that didn’t happen. I foolishly believed I could order my passport two weeks before the Thanksgiving holidays and get it on time.

My passport was expired but my mom’s wasn’t. I really thought I could get the passport in just a few weeks during the holidays, the peak time that everyone is ordering their passports. Well I ended up spending money on the plane for nothing.

The day I was supposed to leave came and no passport arrived. I called and couldn’t get my money back, so that was a bummer.I was pretty depressed because I had already planned out all the places I would be going with my aunt and eating tamales and agues frescas at the mercados. In the end, I had to call the rest of my family and tell them I was going to celebrate thanksgiving with them after all. My mom decided to stay behind because she didn’t want to leave without me.

Thanksgiving day came and I was in charge of making the mashed potatoes. That’s pretty simple, so I decided besides that I would be making a salad too. The problem was that I did not have preparing any dishes planned for Thanksgiving since I was planning to be there, so I did not have any ingredients to make the mashed potatoes or my salad. When I decided I was going to stay and celebrate Thanksgiving after all, so I had gone on Wednesday night to go to HEB and get ingredients for my dishes. If it was up to me, I would have gotten the ingredients since the weekend before because I hate to be that person that goes to the store on Thanksgiving day and am the reason the employees don’t have their day off, and also I like to avoid crowds, but I had no choice since I was staying now and I had to bring my share of the food, so I went to HEB. I headed over there I tried to find parking for about twenty minutes because all the parking spaces were taken. There was a lot of other people like me doing last minute shopping. When I finally did go inside to the store, several items were missing there, luckily there was potatoes, so I grabbed a bag of potatoes and some milk and butter. I also got the ingredients to make my famous salad. It is made up of chicken, spinach, avocado, almonds, cranberry, strawberries, and cucumber. It is delicious and never disappoints.

I bought my ingredients and left the store. When I got home, I started preparing the mashed potatoes. My entire family was already here. My sisters and brother in laws and my nieces and nephews, my mom and  my aunt Rachel that lives in the states came with my cousin Joey and his wife Valerie and their kids. It was a full house. Everyone was busy preparing their own foods or helping cut vegetables. I peeled the potatoes and boiled and putting the finishing touches my side dish for the thanksgiving dinner. It took me a while to do everything since we were short on time as well . It was so good. My mom and my sister Lydia had done a taste test and approved. I was just about to move on to making the salad when from the corner of my eye I saw my sister Anna messing around with the potatoes. “What are you doing?” I yelled. She was pouring lactose free milk she had brought on to the potatoes. “I just want them to be creamier. I know what I am doing”. But she didn’t know what she was doing. I tasted the potatoes and they were ruined. They tasted sour. I spit them out .I made my salad but my mood was ruined. When it came time to sit down and all of us to eat, I made sure to tell everyone before tasting the potatoes that the taste was not my fault and that it was Anna that had ruined them. As expected, everyone made a face when they took their first bite of the potatoes. My nieces and nephews did not even touch theirs. The mashed potatoes are usually the best part of the meal and my sister had completely ruined that.

Anyways thankfully there was a lot of other delicious foods, and we had three different cakes and three pies for everyone to choose from, so the potatoes were soon forgotten. My salad was a hit and everyone asked for seconds, so at least I had that to be proud of that. Things didn’t turn out how I expected, but I had nice Thanksgiving. I have learned my lesson to not order my passport late and to order months in advance. Luckily once the passport arrives, I won’t have to worry about that for another ten years.