This is the first major holiday we haven't been able to get home for since starting this crazy navy life a year and a half ago (man, time has flown by!). Couple that with the husband's crazy training schedules and I have to say I was a bit bummed. I'm used to family holidays being a mob scene: fifty plus people, tons of food, and enough drama to keep things interesting. Quiet family gatherings are just not my family's style. Loud drunken affairs are kind of how we roll.
Anyways, trying to figure out how to celebrate a just the two of us holiday with a heavy dose of "we only have a couple of hours together and he's worked a bajillion hours" thrown in was boggling to me. Should I cook a big meal? I made a big breakfast and he went to bed, but the thought of cooking some large meat (holidays involve a wide variety of large chunks of meat in my family: chickens, turkeys, legs of lamb, pork loins) was daunting, not from cooking perspective but from a "eating leftover chunk o' meat for the next week is depressing" perspective. I bought an egg kit and failed to dye eggs. I felt like a total easter failure. I mean, who forgets to dye easter eggs and has no clue what to cook for easter dinner?
So, I chickened out of our first holiday for two. We went out to dinner. And you know what? It rocked. The food was great. Someone else cooked it. Someone else cleaned it up. And I got cheesecake. And I came home and we webcammed with all my crazy relatives. Was it a normal family extravaganza? Not even close. But I got to spend time with my husband and wave at my grandmom, so all in all it was a good holiday. Oh, and Finn ate real non-turkey sausage for breakfast (we did too) so I'm pretty sure it was a good puppy Easter :-)
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