How can it be November already? We host Thanksgiving almost every year at our house. We went out to eat once on Thanksgiving years ago, and my husband Mike did not like going out to eat for a holiday. He loves to cook, so he takes care of cooking the meal. My job is to get the house ready and clean it back up afterwards.
I like to decorate for fall in late September. I have one tote of decorations for fall and Halloween. After Halloween, I toss the Halloween decorations in the tote, and leave up the rest of the fall stuff for Thanksgiving.
We use real plates at our house for Thanksgiving dinner. We usually have about 15 people over. We have a bar area in our basement, so we can have up to 20 people without needing card tables and chairs out, which really saves time on getting ready and cleaning up. Since we host the holiday, my mom comes over to help with any last minute tasks to get ready. It’s pretty much an unwritten rule that she cleans the wine glasses, because they are always dusty from using them at Christmas the year before! She’ll do any dishes or clean the bathrooms, whatever I need. Then we chat for a while before people start showing up. My mom always does the dishes after the dishwasher is filled up. I hate doing dishes; I usually put the food away in containers while she takes over the dishes.
Stay tuned for next month’s topic: Sentimental items
There’s so much to do, so little time. Bye for now!
