Thanksgiving is the time for the family to gather and eat all of the things that you somehow don’t care much for during the year. It’s the time of the year when we decide it’s time to cook a whole turkey rather than just a breast to feed the masses. It’s the time of the year when the purple beets make their way to the table, I still wonder if beets are a fruit or vegetable. Who knows? They are here to stay.
Forget just having a bite here and a bite there, it doesn’t work. There will be no calorie counting allowed on this Oh glorious day. All the family just seats around and stuffs their faces. Can’t we just reinvent another way to celebrate the Good Harvest at Plymouth? In the past, I liked to have a theme for my Thanksgiving so one year it would be Spanish influenced food, everything cheese and another would be seafood and so on. It’s a good change and you can even decorate your house to match the theme.
The holidays can also be stressful for everybody involved. The family is usually crowed in a small space and hungry so you feel pressured to get the food out so they will stop complaining. Then you hope that the food is flavored to their liking because normally you don’t cook for an army. Then after the whole ordeal is done you have to clean up all the crap or you can get a family member to help clean up. They usually don’t know where anything is and ask questions the whole time so it’s easier to do it yourself.
During conversation family members are now asking you questions like, what you are doing with your life. You now have to listen to advice that you didn’t ask for. Just lie and say that your president of a company and help out on the weekends volunteering.
There are steps you can take to make the event less stressful. First blow up a bubble, take a Xanax and crawl inside. Have people throw the food inside the bubble and you’ll be fine. When the parties over just bull doze the crowd out of the door with your giant bubble. It’s that easy!
Seriously, it doesn’t have to be that bad.
1) Do as much as you can the night before in preparing the food.
2) If you just want to cook the main dish have others bring side dishes.
3) If someone offers to clean up just tell them where everything is before they clean up and if they don’t know to leave the dishes on the counter and you will attend to it later.
4) Smile, if you smile then you will feel better.
5) Take frequent breaks in a private area of the house to just take a deep breath and relax for a bit.
6) Enjoy your family because you will not see all of them every day.
7) Remember you cannot change the way people are so if a family member is very annoying just remember they are who they are. You cannot change them.
Have fun and remember Thanksgiving is not the time for a nervous breakdown. Gobble! Gobble!
Tina
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