Turkey Day

Yesterday was Thanksgiving and in my family we eat all day,plus relax in our comfy clothes or at least we have starting doing that in recent years. Growing up we went to my grandmother's house every year. We would drive in on Wednesday night after school, then Thursday morning my sister, brother and I would be up early to watch the parade. Everyone else would get up later and then we started making stuff to for eating. It was a little more of a formal Thanksgiving, so it involved getting dressed up nice, but the eating all day thing was still enforce.... We would start out about 1-2pm in the afternoon with appetizers. There was dips, crackers, meatballs, little hot dogs, and then a bunch of Jewish food.... like gribaness, egg and onion. There was drinking and talking going on.. it was great. Then about 6pm we would have the main meal. There was everything from turkey to goose, from homemade cranberry sauce to green beans, and 2-3 different pies. You always were fuller than full. As we got older,The mother and her sister started trading off who would do thanksgiving.... so it would rotate from IA, to IL depending on who's house we were at.... still the eating all day continued. But then us kids got to college and started to move in different directions, plus everyone else was having a hard time getting to the same place for the day. So we started going to The Mother's friend's house. It was a big meal, with a bunch of people.... people who really didn't have anywhere else to go...... we would eat and then play games..... but that got old quickly, since it just wasn't home. So about 5 years ago... we made a decision that we were going to start doing low key Thanksgivings. Everyone would come over to The mother's house in their p.j. or sweats.
So as i said before yesterday that is what we did...... I got to the house about 9 to start watching to parade..... everyone else start showing up soon after and the cooking started for our first meal of the day....... we always have a big breakfast... there were biscuits and gravy, eggs, bagels, kippers, donuts.... if you wanted it... it was there. Once we were done eating that.... The mother started making the "snacks" , she made meatballs and little hot dogs......there was chips and dips... too..... that was to get us thru till dinner. We watched a movie and then it was time to start making dinner... the bird was already cooked, the stuffing went in the oven... then there was peeling of potatoes, making yams.....taking out the cranberry sauce.. homemade of course.... she made green bean casserole. it was great. As you know I have been on this diet... kind of... so I think I eat more then I have eaten in the last 6 months.....but still it was the best. I just hope I still fit into my dress at the end of Dec.....