Eight hours of cooking.
Thirty minutes of eating.
Fifteen minutes of clean up.
It was a great Thanksgiving. But I'm surely tired. I had so much fun cooking. And I'm so glad we got to have our first holiday in our home. Now it's time to get ready for Christmas!
Morales Thanksgiving in Pictures
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Here's what's on the menu for next Thursday in the Morales Palace:
Turkey with cranberry sauce
Dressing
Large salad
Corn casserole
Wild rice and apple pilaf
Sweet potato casserole
Fresh green beans
Snow peas (at Jason's request)
Biscuits and honey butter
Strawberry jello pretzel dessert
Apple Pie with vanilla ice cream
Oreo bundt cake
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One week from tomorrow I'll be hosting our first holiday in our new home AND my first Thanksgiving.
Every time I think about that, I have to remind myself to take really deep breaths.
I'm not nervous, and I'm not scared of cooking Thanksgiving dinner, but the thought of coordinating that much food overwhelms me. And when I'm overwhelmed, I get really organized, really quick...but more on that in a minute.
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