Here's the step by step guide to Thanksgiving at my parents' house:
1. Keep OUT of mom's way as she prepares huge Thanksgiving feast. Seriously, walking into the kitchen is an invitation to certain death. I once watched my mom simultaneously stir green beans and disembowel my cousin for asking when dinner would be ready. The giblet gravy tasted funny that year...
2. Risk life to walk into kitchen to ask Mom if she's making plenty sweet potato casserole. It must be done.
3. Sit down at table and eat oneself into oblivion (multiple helpings of said sweet potato casserole to blame).
4. Clean up table - realize the dinner rolls are still in the freezer. I don't think we've had dinner rolls a single Thanksgiving in my lifetime. Mom buys them...they just don't make it to the table.
5. Scream at the Dallas Cowboys and referees as though they can hear you for first half of game. Recently, a new tradition has developed of explaining to grandchildren that such language cannot be used by anyone under 18.
6. Sleep open-mouthed through second half of game.
7. Wake up and descend on pies (or another helping of sweet potato casserole in my case).
8. Take football outside and throw it around talking about how we are better than (enter name of Cowboys quarterback depending on the year). Well, except for Staubach. No one defames Staubach in my family.
9. Eat leftovers and argue over who ate the piece of pie that you put a toothpick in. Why can't people respect the toothpick rule???
Good times.
2 comments:
Everything after your mom being the only one in the kitchen, that sounds about like Turkey Day with our family! The women have dragged me in there to learn the Smith family recipes! I'm next in line to be the maker of Nanny's cornbread stuffing... yikes
I guess this is why you originally wrote a blog about "Scary Mom", always in jest and why I gave myself that moniker.
1. Preparing huge feast - true; certain death - true; and you were always griping about that cousin anyway - true. You didn't speak of the 7 grandchildren all in the kitchen at the same time so when one of their parents walks in it is hoping you're coming to get them - not ask about sweet potato casserole.
2. You started out in life hating sweet potato casserole so I can't quite wrap myself around that idea yet.
3. and up - you nailed it.
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