My Christmas Eve Tale

I went to work Thursday, figuring I was going to be able to take off early as I was the only one in the office. When noon rolled around, I headed to the SW side of Madison. There is a supermarket there, my bank has a branch there, and a part for my snowblower was over there.

I went to Copps supermarket first to get my folks their Christmas present.

My folks are 72 and 68, they have a beautiful home they have lived in for almost 40 years, and they have everything they really want so we try not to burden them with trinket type gifts. I buy them dinner. Dinner that they would never buy for themselves. This year I scored a small 2.4 lb boneless rib roast, asparagus, shitake mushrooms, yukon gold potatoes, and red an jou pears. At the same time I picked up some jasmine rice (can't get it at our local small town Piggly Wiggly) and a bottle of Makers.

When I got home, the SoDT asked how much I spent on my folks. (She likes to try to keep everything "equal" when giving gifts.)

I told her I didn't know, because some of it was for us.

Question: What do you all think I meant when I said that?

SHE thought I meant that some of the rib roast was for us for supper, which it wasn't.

Fast forward to Christmas Eve day. I took the boys to my mom and dads to hang out for the day (my dad just had a hip replaced) and to give my wife time alone to finish wrapping presents.

We went to town and picked up some of the weekly specials for her, and got home around 4:30.

Around 5:00 she's panicking because I didn't have time to cook the rib roast (which she assumed we were having for Christmas Eve) before we left for church, and there was no time to get anything else ready (after I told her the rib roast was not for us) before we left. Much to her credit (and way outside of her norm) she said "We'll go to church, when we're done we'll drive into town and grab something at Piggly Wiggly. If they're closed we'll hit SubWay, and if they're closed we'll hit KwikTrip (Wisconsin's version of a 7-Eleven).

Just so you know, we go to a great church, and we all love one another like there is no tomorrow. Getting away from church can be difficult because we fellowship really, really well.

Guess where we had Christmas Eve dinner?

At KwikTrip, of course!

We got it all to go, went home, sat around the the living room and thoroughly enjoyed our meal as a family.

I'm sure my wife and I will laugh about this little misunderstanding for many many Christmases.

I hope each of you made a special family memory this year too.