Martha would be disappointed. I should be ashamed; but instead, I'm strangely indifferent. This holiday season provided the perfect opportunity to display hosting, decorating, and crafting skills carefully accrued over the previous months of alleged efforts to become, well, better, at all of the above.
We hosted staff parties, open houses, and family dinners. I did not make one new recipe. Scott did most of the decorating. I made a Christmas craft that was too ugly to display. We ate off paper plates and used plastic cutlery. I put out store-bought desserts. Heck, I didn't even have holiday napkins. Even at Thanksgiving I get excited about those! So, looking back, I should be experiencing a sense of failure. However, apart from the napkins, I have no regrets.
Perhaps this is just as good as it gets for me. Maybe, in the end, I don't have it in me after all. And while it's an enticing thought to give up and concede defeat, I can't quit just yet. One of my Christmas gifts was a subscription to Martha Stewart Living, and I can't help but feel a tinge of hope that therein lies the secret to my success.
I mean, there will be pictures, right?
Haha, well I do remember napkins at the staff party, but you let your daughter 'display' them, and I felt compelled to fix them before people arrived! Haha!
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