We're preparing to host Thanksgiving in our home this year. We invited Stepler's group at work and they've all accepted. So we're having 19 for Thanksgiving dinner (that does include Rory and a six-month old).
With the usual stresses of Thanksgiving dinner preparation come doing it in a country that does not celebrate the holiday. So trips to four different grocery stores have been made to find all necessary ingredients. Found pecans for the pies today and now there's just one more trip to one grocery to pick up the turkey and fresh food. We do not have 19 plates etc, but I bought some plates rather cheaply at the Freetex (Salvation Army), am borrowing other needed items, and will be using paper plates for dessert. But I'm also wondering about the size of our apartment, where everyone will sit, the size of our oven, the size of the refrigerator, and on and on.
Many of our guests have never had Thanksgiving dinner before. It will be fun introducing them to my family's traditional Thanksgiving meal. And I can't wait to eat it myself. I just need the gods of Thanksgiving to smile on me for the next week.
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