Heidi Chronicles

It’s probably not a good idea to bake a pecan pie for the first time when your extended family is going to be eating it. But I did.

Filed under: Blah Blah Blah, Family — Heidi at 6:10 pm on Friday, November 25, 2005

Yes, I baked my first pecan pies today. They looked beautiful when they came out of the oven. I wish I had taken pictures.

I had to double the recipe and I’m not the greatest at that kind of thing. If I were doing it without advice, I probably would have made two separate pies instead of doubling the recipe. The doubling requires too much thought of a tired, 30-year-old mind. It frightens me. I’m always afraid I’m going to leave something out. Even when I bake something I make often, I get all of the ingredients out and put them away as I add them so that I don’t screw it up.

We’ll see how they go over tomorrow.

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DDOL: Is he teething? I’m not sure. What do you think?

Filed under: Liam — Heidi at 3:19 pm on Friday, November 25, 2005

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DDOL: Please Mama, don’t leave me in solitary.

Filed under: Liam — Heidi at 8:09 pm on Thursday, November 24, 2005

The Monster played well with everyone today. Emalee was having him say “boo-yah” and then cracking up. She pulled him in the wagon and then he tried to pull her in the wagon. It was quite a challenge but he did manage to move her a few inches.

Naturally, everything went quite smoothly until bed time. Then my happy child turned into a crying mess.

He was a wreck. I did the usual bedtime routine and put him in his crib, but instead of making his usual before-sleep noises, he freaked out like I had locked him in a small, cold closet with hardwood floors and no blankets.

I knew that part of it was my fault since I made the mistake of not taking him up to the room where he sleeps beforehand to play. I don’t think I really need to say it, but I do sincerely regret that now.

He did finally go to sleep, but it took me an hour and a half to get him to the point that I knew there wasn’t any other option than to let him cry a bit. And you’d better believe I made certain that he wasn’t hungry before I made that decision.

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Aside from the pies, it’s just another day.

Filed under: Blah Blah Blah, Family — Heidi at 7:03 pm on Thursday, November 24, 2005

We spent our actual Turkey Day driving to my parents’ house. My mom’s family is celebrating on Saturday, so while the rest of you were in tryptophan overload, we were eating beef and noodle soup that my mom made with “bad” filets. It’s the kind of meal that Aaron would have every Thanksgiving if he were cooking - although, his disbelief that we weren’t having a “big” meal on Thanksgiving Day was quite humorous.

Anyway, the drive was actually nice. The sun wasn’t too bright and Liam managed to nap while AJ listened to a thrilling book on CD about the Enron debacle and I messed on the computer for a bit.

But it was kind of odd to be driving ON the holiday - I kept forgetting. I’d look out the window and wonder why the parking lots were empty. Then when we got out of the city, I couldn’t figure out why the old patriarchal farmhouses along the highway had so many cars in the driveway. I finally got it through my thick skull that it was, in fact, Thanksgiving and that while the majority of the country was eating turkey, we were driving alongside the truckers earning double-time-and-a-half.

For like half-a-second, I totally wanted to be a trucker.

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