Christmas food

I told dh that I was not doing a repeat of Thanksgiving on Christmas, making food for his mom and sister, taking it to MIL's (they're effectively a bubble/household), and then doing all the last minute stuff again for our dinner, resulting in a less than warm turkey and dried out dressing (my fault, I should have covered it), and just generally a lot of stress.

My suggestion was that on Christmas Eve we'd take over a ham, scalloped potatoes to be re-heated (or the ones from Costco), dessert, rolls and probably some sparkling apple juice, for the 25th, as well as sourdough bowls (Perry has a starter) and clam chowder and dessert for that evening itself. They would have to figure out their own veggies.

Dh was hesitant, but then agreed.

He floated the plan to MIL and SIL. We'll see how that goes. If past experience serves, my SIL's response will be along the lines of "I prefer prime rib". LOL.

Down two

I finally realised that dh wasn't going to ever finish getting rid of this stuff if I didn't step in. So I did.

Emptied some boxes and got rid of two boxes (one to MIL one to SIL). There is some stuff still here from those boxes for AC, and a big box for donating, but progress is being made.

It's not dh's fault. He gets up at 6:30AM, is "at work" by 8am, and pretty much works non-stop until 6:30-7pm or so. I've been a PITA asking him to go for walks with me during the day, because otherwise he sits all day, and if he does come for a walk, which is great, he usually works later. Once he's done with work, he spends a few hours helping Linnea with computer science while eating dinner. At about 10pm he finally get a moment to check fun stuff on the web. So yeah. Not his fault.

He does, however, take full days off from time to time for trains, so he gets some downtime, but it's been pretty exhausting for him these past few months.

There are some things I can move forward on by myself, even if it's a PITA for me to make decisions, so I'm going to do it, and see what I can get rid of.