Continuing a tradition begun when we first moved to the area in 2006, my parents traveled up to Boston for Thanksgiving. They arrived on Wednesday along with my sister Moriah and her boyfriend, Craig, who both flew in from Tuscon. Then on Thursday morning, we all drove up to Barrington to celebrate the holiday with the Olivier clan. The meal was phenomenal and included Anique's first attempt at a tofurkey (Craig's vegan and Moriah's vegetarian, though most of the omnivores partook). Consesus: tasty but perhaps a little heavy on the tofu (6 pounds of it). More well received was Anique's vegan pumpkin bread pudding. Popular with Masons and Oliviers alike, this dish might have been sweet enough to have helped forge a more communitarian relationship between the Europeans and the Native Americans. If only we could go back in time. We capped the day with a walk along Swain's Lake and an hour of singing around the fire place.
Having my family here was great and Isaac provided plenty of entertainment and opportunities for the out-of-practice (and in Moriah's case, the uninitiated) to change his diapers, feed him cereal, make him laugh. Special shout-out to my folks who watched Isaac on Saturday night so that Anique and I could go on a special date to the Finland Steam Baths, a favorite spot of ours in Quincy (when you scan down the webpage, keep your eyes out for a picture of Danielle and Zev along with our/their friends, Christie and Charlie). We then returned to the Not Your Average Joes in Watertown for drinks, veggie spring rolls, and the Chocolate Peanut Butter Thing, a decadent concoction. Anique told our waitress that this was only our 4th date since Isaac's birth, and to our surprise, the dish arrived topped with candles and the framed with the words CONGRATS! in peanut butter sauce. And, even better, it was on the house! What a great date. We made it back just in time for Isaac's now-routine 10:30 PM wake-up. Hopefully, once those top two teeth come in, we can get back to sleeping through the night (all three of us).
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