Celebration in Clan is Divine Madness
Up at 4 a.m. to put the too heavy turkey in the oven, which is used about once a year so it smokes for a while and when we get up we have to open the doors to get the smoke out.
How many kinds of pie? Blueberry, lemon, pecan, pumpkin, Susan’s pumpkin, mincemeat.
How many kinds of stuffing? In the bird, out of the bird, vegetarian, oyster.
How many kinds of veggies? Green bean casserole, Italian green beans, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, cheesy broccoli and cauliflower, baked apples, corn pudding.
What else? Whole wheat rolls, broken glass salad, banana salad, gravay all over everything, turkey carved by Jay, some kind of cake, many kinds of wine and non-wine, truffles from Frank, pinecone turkeys, cranberry jelly and cooked cranberries with apples.
What else? Prayer service with special petitions written by John, phone call from Caitlan, phone call from Bruce, Justin and Connor in all their magnificence, Brendan and Ian fall asleep first, Greg Brown keeps coming in, we miss Josh and Joey, explaining Dixonese tales to Frank and Michelle, Lea’s doily find, DISHES, DISHES, DISHES, football, George Washington, walk down Blue Bank Road, Pirate Game, Blackboard comic strip, and what have I forgotten?
All the love. All the love. All the love.