Thanksgiving

Things I have learned from our first go at hosting Thanksgiving:

1. Inviting 9 adults, 9 kids and 2 babies to your house three weeks after you move in may be an insane idea.

2. If your husband asks you to have 9 adults, 9 kids and 2 babies over for Thanksgiving and you say yes because you love him, there are no take backs or do-overs.

3. If you are so pooped that you fall asleep and leave your husband to put the thawing turkey in the fridge before you go to bed, it may still be frozen in the middle, causing mild panic and some extended hot water rinsing to get the neck out of that cavity.

4. If you manage to figure out that the neck and giblets are supposed to be cooked outside the turkey, you are already half way to being a Thanksgiving expert. Or at least an Intermediate Level Hostess.

5. If you are trying to brine a turkey, you should get a friend to help dump the extra juice in the sink when it's in a 5 gallon bucket and you are for some reason dumping it out inside.

6. If you call the Butterball hotline, your own personal home economist can tell you how to cook a 14lb and a 16lb turkey in the oven at the same time.

7. If you call the Hazmat people, they will not come clean up the floor in the kitchen.

8. If you have coffee and good desserts, no one cares if the floor in the kitchen is thrashed.

















Things I am thankful for:

My mom coming to help, and Andrew's mom and sister bringing desserts, rolls, yams and jello.

Lots of food to share.

Our new house.

The 9 kids eating in the kitchen.

Bryce being a super good boy and just eating puffs and laughing in his highchair the entire time we were eating.