My favorite Holiday memories are my childhood memories. I'm the youngest of 7 with my 4 oldest siblings already teenagers when I was born. I was an aunt by the time I was 5. Except for one sister, who moved to Washington state with her Navy husband when I was about 10, everyone lived fairly close by. I loved those Holidays when my siblings would come back home with my nieces and nephews. The crowd seemed to get bigger every year. The house was really too small for all of us but we didn't care. As time went on I married and had children of my own, my nieces and nephews married and had children...
As we all know, nothing stays the same forever. Family dynamics change, some Holidays are spent with in-laws... My father has since passed away and my mom lives in a small apartment. She now waits for invitations from one of her children for the Holdays, and this year she'll be spending Thanksgiving with us along with one of my sisters and her son; it'll be a party of 7 and I'm looking so forward to it :)
I make a very traditional Thanksgiving dinner. I don't really experiment much with my recipes; I save that for other times...
So here's what's on the menu...
Roast Turkey
Stuffing
Baked Ham
Mashed Potatoes; Gravy
Brown Sugar Sweet Potatoes
Green Bean Casserole
Baked Ziti
Cranberry Sauce
Dinner Rolls
Dinner Rolls
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