With (Five Minute Friday)

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Here we go again. The Five Minute Friday post is sneaking in under the wire to be included in the link-up.

What with the holidays and working 63 hours last week (possibly a new record for me), I just didn’t have it in me to sit down and attempt to write the post until now. I must confess I would have put it off indefinitely were it not for the deadline to post and be included in the link-up.

We had some of my family with us for a Christmas morning brunch and we decided not to worry about gifts this year. That part was good. Because it was a pitch-in, there was, of course, too much food. That was fine, good even because we will eat the leftovers for dinner this week.

The part that wasn’t good was feeling like we were racing through the day with too many things to do, too much structure to the day. We were having our brunch at 10am, but it was late getting started because one sister and our daughter were late. We had to make a big pan of potatoes and those had to back for 30 or 40 minutes. The last of the brunch guests didn’t leave until about 1:30 and we were supposed to be to the 2nd family pitch-in meals at 2pm, but the potatoes took a little too long to cook and then had to cool some before zipping the pan into the casserole carrier, this left barely enough time for the daughter to open her gifts from us and ours from her so we wouldn’t have to worry about her coming all the way back here when the night would end half-way home for her if she didn’t come back to our house. I really missed having the quiet relaxed opening of gifts and calm morning together. Maybe it was inevitable that this year would be different with the kids both living in their own homes now, and I’m not sure what I was thinking when I agreed to host the Christmas brunch, but it seemed like the right thing to do at the time. The 2nd gathering was an hour or two earlier than we have had it in years past too which didn’t help at all.

We then did a nighttime downtown scavenger hunt that was gifted to us last year and about to expire. Because ti was for all four of us and we work 4 different jobs with different schedules in two different cities we just never found the right time to use the voucher. They shouldn’t expire. There just wasn’t any other time we could do it and it was a walking tour kind of thing. With me in a walking boot and it was about 40 degrees outside, and dark. It was fun, but could have been better if circumstances were different.

While I don’t mind spending time with our families and friends around the holidays, I doubt I will ever again allow myself to have all the things happen in the same single day. It was crazy, it was harried and hurried, too much going on to truly enjoy any of it.

What did you do with your holiday? Did you spend the time wisely? Would you do it differently next time?

This post is part of the weekly Five Minute Friday link-up!
The prompt this week is: With
The assignment: Write for five minutes on the word of the week. This is meant to be a free write, which means: no editing, no over-thinking, no worrying about perfect grammar or punctuation. Just write.

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