Sweaters
"I am ready," Amy says buttoning up her cardigan. "We should get to my parents in good time," she adds with a tentative smile to Sheldon. He seems to handle having to spend Thanksgiving with her mother surprisingly well. She does not.
"Wait. You wear this," he replies. A moment later, he hands her a red sweater.
"What is this?"
"A hand-knitted sweater. Your mother made it," Sheldon states, "As I said, you should wear it."
"No, I won't," Amy declines. She has her own cozy cardigan to keep her warm. More importantly, she will never let her mother impose anything again.
"But Amy! I promised her."
As it is clear from her face that Amy isn't ceding at all, he finally explains, "She called and told me how happy she is to spend Thanksgiving with us. Then she complained that we won't visit for Christmas and said she would have done sweaters for us all. I suggested her to make them now instead, and she questioned it because it's not a Thanksgiving tradition."
Amy is raising her eyebrows. That conversation already sounded way longer than she hoped her husband and her mother would have ever talked. Also, how does he talk so fast? All these years and she still sometimes wonders if he can breathe.
"I observed that it was a fair point," Sheldon keeps going, "so I suggested a more suitable theme: fall vegetables."
Amy finally unfolds the sweater and checks it out. "A pumpkin?"
"I wanted spaghetti squash, but it was too many stitches."
Amy takes a second look to it. It is kind of cute, and the pumpkin reminds her of her father's nickname for her.
"Well, I still won't wear this," she says after some hesitation, "You should've told me earlier."
"But you have to," Sheldon insists, "I remind you we are going because you continuously lied to Green Beans to avoid visiting her."
"Green Beans?"
"That's my nickname for your mother. Your dad is Turnip. Oh, don't worry if you don't remember them," he adds, seeing Amy's puzzled face, "They will have those on their own sweaters. We all have matching sweaters, isn't it fun?"
"Do you have one too?" Amy inquires. This sweaters situation may turn into something interesting after all.
"Of course!" Sheldon proudly answers, "Does it suit me?" He asks then putting on a green sweater with a large zucchini on the front.
Amy bursts out laughing. "I surrender. You convinced me," she announces amid giggles.
"What's so fun? Do you find it ridiculous?"
Amy slips into her own sweater and moves closer to him. "Absolutely not. You are adorable," she reassures him before sealing her statement with a kiss.