If you are married to or dating a chef, you know what I mean. It’s not that we don’t like the holidays, it’s just that we don’t see our chefs much or at all during the month of December. So once January 2nd comes around, we are pretty excited!! Things “should” slow down a bit in the restaurant, our chefs will be home trying to catch up on sleep and family time and we can all breathe a sigh of relief!
(Although January 2nd falling on a Friday might mess that up for us this year. Maybe we should be saying January 5th.)
Either way, I’m ready for the new year.
Now looking ahead to Valentine’s Day . . . just kidding.
We survived the Christmas season as the family of a chef, although it was a very different month for us. Things have really changed in my chef/husband’s career and while the hours were still really long, he was off 3 weekends and Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. That has NEVER happened. The days he was working, his to do list was very long, but it actually didn’t have anything to do with the Christmas season. So it was a different season for us. Good, but different (and not what I had expected at all!!)
With that being said, I have absolutely no idea what the new year will bring. What I’ve come to know as the wife of chef is changing by the day. While I’m excited about these changes, there’s a small part of me that is anxious as well. I’m not a big fan of the “unknown,” but we’ll just take one day at a time and trust in God’s plan for our family.
It was nice to take a few weeks off from the blog and social media. Even though I wasn’t posting, I loved connecting with other chef wives and girlfriends through email and was busy working on my new ebook which I’ll be giving out to all my email subscribers soon! (I’m so excited about this project and had some great conversations with my husband about it the other day! I can’t wait to share it with you!!) I’ve also been busy learning the ins and outs of Pinterest. If you have any chef, restaurant or food related boards you think I’d be interested in, please let me know so I can follow them!
How did your chef family survive the Christmas season?
From one chef’s wife to another,
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