Decision Making: Traditional Nails It

I have invited several friends over for a Christmas lunch. I am having a terrible time coming up with a menu and what clothing to wear. The same exercise I use to select the right fashion I tend to use for making a meal. I tend to go over my complete food and garment inventory in my head. I seem to review the items over and over again. In fact I really know what I wanted but I couldn’t commit to something until I have approval from my “inner stress”. Crazy! I know. I have replaced the roasted duck with fresh grill fish. For starters I am making pumpkin curry soup. Each guest will have their own small pumpkin with hot soup inside. Then grilled fish in garlic sauce over yellow rice with almonds. Finally, baked apple pie with cheddar chez melted on top. Now that I got that settled; its time to use this method of decision making on my Christmas outfit. (Go over the complete clothing inventory 20 million times until I realize I have been repeating the same shirt and jacket for the last 10 million times. HA!) I am wearing my annual white lace short top with my red velvet short jacket with my Mother’s gold evergreen tree pendant. Why change a clothing tradition?!

Baking the Pants in our Family for the Holiday

I am getting ready to sing in the church holiday Choral Society. I find it gets me into the Christmas spirit and a great excuse to wear those cute light bulb necklaces and red slacks! This year we are going to have a “bake” sale to raise money for the Society. My husband has been begging me to make him his favorite chocolate chip brownies topped with brandy cherries for the Sale. I will make a double batch so there will be enough for him and our son Jon. But then Jon probably wants me to make his favorite, which are butterscotch brownies with vanilla icing. Yummy!

Then there is baking of the holiday sugar cookies to take to our in-laws. I have been making these cookies since Jon was 3 years old. When he was 6, I made sugar cookies shaped like circus animals. But I think my favorite shapes and cookie decorations were the “family” pants. We made bell-bottoms, shorts, bikinis and straight pants. Jon and I decorated them with funny color icing and sprinkles. They were really cute. Jon copied his PJ pants and soccer shorts. I made Dad’s hippie stained jean pants. The best ones were the Bermuda shorts. We made big hibiscus flowers.

I was thinking maybe Jon and I would make shirts and tanks to go with last year’s bottoms!