Have no fear my friends, I didn’t get off track on my Christmas To-Do List, I just didn’t get a chance to blog on Sunday. My husband is a computer hog – oink, oink, oink. Apparently, World of WarCraft is far more important than our holiday adventures, but I digress.
My family’s weekend adventure started out with a car trip to Hunt Valley, Maryland on Friday night. The husband, boy, mother-in-law (MIL) and I piled into the Kia and headed out on a Cashour Family tradition – Valley View Farms.
What is Valley View Farms? VVF as I like to call it is a nursery/greenhouse for ten months out of the year. For the other two months, it is a Christmas wonderland featuring decorated Christmas trees with specialized ornaments, lights and holiday decor. The tiny hands that belong to the boy enjoyed touching everything. “Mommy, can I have this?” “Mommy, can I have this?” “No, you can’t have that.” The bad thing about VVF is the wall-to-wall people that are always present, so keeping track of the boy and the MIL proved to be difficult. Mostly with the MIL, she tends to wander. The boy knows better.
After our hour long jaunt looking at the sights and sounds of VVF, we realize that we didn’t eat dinner. The boy got to choose dinner with the offer of pizza or pancakes. He chose pancakes, and we headed over to IHOP (International House of Pancakes). Pancakes are his favorite thing in the whole world so we kind of knew that we would be going to IHOP if he had the choice.
IHOP had this wonderful, sugar-laden special – White Chocolate Chip Mint pancakes, egg-nog pancakes and pumpkin praline pancakes. Each member of the family got one with the exception of me. I don’t like things on or in my pancakes. (Blah!)
After leaving for home, my husband said that we could have gone to the Thai and Japanese Food restaurant. The boy thought his father said, “Tie your shoes” restaurant and started laughing hysterically for about 20 minutes. I think he might have been a bit tired.
Now I can check one more thing off of my neurotic holiday to-do list. Do you have any traditions or special places that you enjoy taking the family?