Tamale Party!

We decided to have a tamale making party as part of the pre-Christmas festivities. Unfortunately, the word, “party” turned out to be a bit aspirational. Typically we have no trouble with turn-out to our little get togethers, but less than 2 weeks before Christmas is just a crazy time for everyone. People are sick, people are way behind on their shopping, people have in-laws overflowing the guest room and camped in the living room, people are exhausted and overwhelmed. In fact, I should be doing my Christmas cards right now instead of blogging. It’s the 17th! What am I thinking? My Christmas cards aren’t out yet!

Anyway, only a few friends trickled in and out for the so-called “party”. And to my surprise (after I got over the chagrin of almost no one showing)…I liked it that way. It was really nice to be able to sit and talk quietly with just a few people. I’m realizing I should have people over one family at a time more often. It worked out really well.

And the tamales turned out fantastic!

We also watched football. This little Grinch says he roots for the Ravens, but John was trying to convert him into a Vikings fan. Good luck with that! LOL, who wants to root for the team that chokes in the final quarter, year after year? Plus both his parents root for Green Bay.

Funny story: I was fact-checking this post, and I emailed John, asking, “Katie is a Packards fan and Kyle is…?”

And John wrote back, “LOL! Katie and Kyle are both Green Bay “Packers” fans (as in meat packers). The Packard is an old car. :P”

Shows you how much I know about football. Meat packers? What’s that got to do with anything? I sure don’t understand football. Although for the sake of accuracy, it wasn’t the old car I was thinking of, it has to do with the fact that Laura’s current business client is the Hewlett Foundation (you know, Hewlett, as in Hewlett-Packard) lol.

Speaking of football, I am now apparently an official Seahawks fan. This happened accidentally recently. The Vikings were playing the Seahawks and we were texting Laura, who is a Seahawks fan. John and Laura were encouraging me to take a side (since I really don’t care). How am I supposed to choose between my husband’s team and my daughter’s team? So I told them I’d root for whichever team won the game.

Later that night, as I was peacefully reading a magazine, the Seahawks won and Laura texted me:

So that’s how I became a Seahawks fan. But I’m still not really into it.

Not really into old cars either.

Totally into tamales though!