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Happy Holidays everyone. I hope you all had a safe and happy Thanksgiving. We had a nice Turkey Day here at the Krauss house. Lex and I cooked for the whole brood, so we were busy all day but we had a good time in the kitchen together. I recently acquired an antique bin table from Lex's family and it gave us some added "counter space" which was very helpful. Surfaces darling, surfaces...
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The bin table is on the left with some of the early prepped food cooling. I felt very fancy for a few minutes when I realized I actually had a centerpiece for the table, and it was even in the proper fall colors. I totally lucked into that, those flowers were "treasure". Hilaire and Dylan helped us fix the food. Hilaire baked pies and got up in the morning with us to clean and stuff the turkey. They both peeled potatoes and Dylan helped with other odd chores throughout the day. I have evidence:
So here's why I only felt fancy for a few minutes with the centerpiece. My family doesn't dress up for Thanksgiving. It is definitely not a day where we feel like we need to squeeze our butts into unforgiving pants and then be uncomfortable after we eat. Which is all day, because we eat all day. Don't you? I tell you, nothing beats an elastic waist band on Turkey Day. Hellllllloooooooo Sweats! Did I mention that I'm a very sloppy cook too? The last thing I want to be wearing in the kitchen is something that I want to wear in public someday. When everyone was done filling their plates, Lex and I did a quiet high-five and sat down for the first time in hours. Ahhhh.
Haha, look at the second picture and you can see how tall we all are! After dinner we all rolled around a bit, then went back in for pie. Mmmmm, piiiiiiie.... I'll save you all some time and tell you that Christmas will be the same way except that we'll probably have ham instead of turkey and sometime before I want to be awake we will drink coffee while the kids open presents. Christmas is a bit more exciting this year because it's our first with Hilaire.
