Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Like many of you, I’m preparing to host my family for turkey dinner this year. It’s not necessarily a complicated meal, but can be a pretty major undertaking anyway. There is the menu to plan, the groceries to buy, and if you have family staying in your home as I will, there are sleeping arrangements to consider.
Last night I was attempting to organize my table linens when I was sidetracked by a mystery. Seven napkins. There were eight. I need eight! WHERE is the eighth napkin? Figuring this couldn’t possibly be that difficult to resolve, I set out on a massive search. The linen closet, the china cabinet, every single drawer in the kitchen and storage closet….the laundry room, even behind the washer and dryer! Then I looked in all of those places again. No napkin! Sherlock Holmes couldn’t find this thing.
Tonight I spoke with my brother, who recently entertained some guests in his home in L.A. Setting his table, he pulled out his eight super-cool leather placemats. There were seven. The AWOL eighth placemat – nowhere to be found.
I’m imagining this happening all over the place. Hundreds…thousands of people absolutely mystified right now. Seven forks when there should be eight. One pillow case instead of a set. And so it goes…the missing gravy boat, the lost napkin ring, the turkey salt shaker without its pepper partner. Where in the heck does all of this stuff go??? And lets not even get into socks and gloves.
Meanwhile, a local discount retailer sold a lovely set of eight matching napkins to me today. Now that I’ve stopped looking for that missing napkin, I’m sure it’ll turn up…just in time for Christmas!
Happy Thanksgiving, and may all of your things be right where you left them!
