American Christmas Dinner.

This year the children are demanding an American Christmas dinner, I have never cooked traditional American Christmas dinner that includes ham and different casserole etc., that’s because either we aren’t home for Christmas or if we are home, husband is vegetarian and prefers Indian food. I went to Kroger this morning, yucky rainy day, traffic jams, and packed store. I have ordered turkey for Thanksgiving meals from Kroger in the past so secretly hoping that they would be open on Christmas day; sadly they aren’t, so no readymade ham, I will have to make my own, I don’t blame them, they want to be home with their families so what if my husband has to work. I go around the store looking for ingredients to make the meal , Sweet potato casserole too demanding , too many things which I will never use again, crossed it off my list, made the children agree to scalloped potatoes instead (comes in the box), corn casserole check, green beans casserole check, ham check (evidently it’s already cooked and all I have to do is warm it) , meanwhile my phone is alerting me I have walked 5,000 steps just at one store , at the checkout line I am thinking when can I have access to the pills that NASA provides its astronauts … my ramblings on this Wednesday!

This is what they were expecting .....Picture courtesy Google images.

And this is what they got!!!!

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