23rd November 2023
It’s Thanksgiving and a day that will descend into chaos very quickly.
We, as the hosts had set out what each family member should contribute.
We would do the turkey, Matt would make mashed potato and a macaroni cheese, Brenda would do the red cabbage, German style, Cameron would bring an apple pie, Greer and Dylan bread rolls and flavoured butter and Kelli’s mum would bring the pumpkin pie.
That was the plan, Brenda failed at the first hurdle not getting the red cabbage. “ You only had one thing to do” was my controlled thought.
We were then informed that she “got” a jar of the same vegetable, so we walked along to collect it, but it then turned out that she didn’t have it.
She did however find a store open and bought one then delivered it to us. So we were able to prepare it and make it available for the Thanksgiving dinner.
The turkey turned out really well, much better than we thought of as it was our first one.
Everyone enjoyed the spread, noting especially how good my stuffing balls were.
I did have a few drinks, always a necessity at any family event.
But just like every special day, we tried to play a box game, but no one had played it before and nobody understood the rules, just like being in England
Another Lifetime to go 