How I spent Thanksgiving 2023

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This is the first time my husband and I hosted thanksgiving dinner in our home. It was a very small invite list we only invited my parents and my oldest nephew as well as my husband’s one sister and her two children with the later three not showing up. Actually I invited my sister and her other 3 kids for dessert but they didn’t make it either. My husband and I usually are a very bad team in the kitchen. He likes to listen to music and I need silence to concentrate. He has no patience and can’t stand anyone in the way for even a second when he’s making food. He left the music off and he didn’t get impatient at all. We did well and never bickered at all it was so nice. He went hunting in the morning then came back and helped get the food ready. My two year old was tossing and turning from about 6:30 am until she got up around 8am. I hadn’t gotten to bed until 1am so being woken at 6:30 was no picnic. After cooking and cleaning all day I never go to sit down until after 10pm. I am very tired but it was a very nice day. My mother made the Turkey and gravy. I made special mashed potatoes, blueberry crisp, pecan pie cupcakes, Tennessee onions, stuffing and Pumpkin-mallow dessert. My husband made candied yams, carrots, green bean casserole and crescent rolls. We actually both wound up making a meat and cheese platter mine of which you can see in the photo. The photo is my Pinterest fail. I didn’t have enough pepperoni to make it look better.