After four years of spending Christmas away from my family working in Colorado, December of 2007 I was finally home again. However, things didn’t go quite as I had planned. My mom informed me that we would be spending Christmas Day in Florida with my grandparents. I was fine with that plan, and quite excited for the whole family to be together again, but I couldn’t help feeling sad that we wouldn’t have a white Christmas (I mean we went golfing on Xmas day…that’s just not right!). So my mom promised that once we got back to New Hampshire we could have another Christmas; one complete with snow, a fire in the fireplace, and a few falls on the ice from Beano.
On the morning of December 28th, my mom and stepdad (Beano) were in the kitchen having breakfast when Beano asked, “Do we have to dress up for Christmas dinner tonight?” My mom (for some unknown reason) was appalled by this, “Are you serious? In the ten years we’ve had Christmas dinner together, have we ever ONCE had to dress up?!?”
“Ahh whatevah,” Beano grumbled. Still upset by his absurdity, my mom went upstairs and burst in to my bedroom where my sister and I were sleeping.
“Guess what Beano just asked me!” she exclaimed, and proceeded to explain the whole incident. To which I replied, “You mean dress up in costumes?” Well that comment got us going back and forth about how funny it would be if we all dressed up in costumes and next thing you know we’ve come up with the most brilliant plan. The three of us decided we would go to the Good Will and look for the most ridiculous ‘dress up’ outfits we could find and they would be the required attire for Christmas dinner that year. We got my brother in on the plan as well.
When it was time to eat, the four of us said, “OK Beano, we’re going to go get dressed up now.” As we paraded up the stairs he stayed put in his chair saying, “Yeah, yeah, yeah.” He had no idea how pretty we were getting upstairs...
Once we were as pretty as we could possibly get, we paraded back down to show off our threads.
"What the hell are you guys wearing?!?!" was his response.
"You said you wanted to dress up for dinner. So we got out our prettiest outfits. Don't worry, we have one for you too."
We all expected resistance from Beano, but he was surprisingly excited to wear his fancy new Christmas digs.
We actually had quite the photo shoot that night....
And I'm fairly certain we completely embarrassed the dog...
We actually wore the outfits all through dinner and then some...
Who knows what this year will bring.....
i have been WAITING for this one to make the cut!! hhahahaha its just hilarious. cant wait to see what will happen year......
ReplyDeleteand is it bad that the worst thing i notice in these pics is my hair! everything else is fabulous :)
you know this is one of my fav caitlin stories. but i'm wondering exact when during the process of dressing up did you and your sister decide to turn it into an 80s music video shoot? side ponies and blue eye shadow?!
ReplyDeletei abosolutely love it. p.s. you can bring me that dress for new years :)
~monkey
This is a perfect illustration of why I love your family. I hope this year's Christmas celebration is just as festive!
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