Photo: 2019

Scene 1: Alison starts to put on her favorite white tee shirt, realizes it might be a bad idea to wear her favorite white shirt on the day she’s making cranberry bread, and puts it on anyway.

Scene 2: Alison gets two steps into her recipe and realizes that what she thought was sugar is salt. Her husband goes to the store for actual sugar and Chips Ahoy for Santa because Alison did not make cookies this year.

Photo: 2018

Scene 3: Alison returns to the cranberry bread and realizes that what she’d thought were regular walnuts were candied walnuts. She gets the bright idea to give these nuts to the mail carrier instead of the sweet and spicy ones she over-salted and sort of burned.

Scene 3: Alison’s daughter enters the kitchen and asks, Is this going to be the best cranberry bread ever? Alison replies, Probably not.

Photo: 2017

2018Scene 4: Alison leaves the following message in her mom’s voicemail: Hypothetically, if someone realized she didn’t have walnuts and she’d already sent her husband to the store for sugar because her sugar was salt, should she
a) Omit the nuts
b) Sub salted peanuts
c) Sub pepitas
d) Sub cashews even though there’s a decent chance her son is allergic to them

Photo: 2016

Scene 5: Alison is about to start slicing cranberries when she thinks better of it and takes off her favorite white shirt. Our heroine slices the cranberries (and a few more steps) and puts the shirt back on.

Scene 6: Alison starts to transfer the batter to the pan but stops and takes off her favorite white shirt. She gets the bread in the oven and puts the shirt back on.

Photo: 2015

Scene 7: Alison washes one dish and cranberry juice hits her shirt.

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