My original plan was to walk you through step by step of our Thanksgiving Day.
And then I realized that would be the most boring blog post known to mankind.
So instead, I figured I would leave you with lessons that I learned from hosting this grand event.
Thankfully, I took 142 pictures throughout the day to accompany my lessons.
Get your big girl panties on for this one.
I’ve got a lot to fill em’ with.
How To Dominate Thanksgiving {Or What Not To Do}:
1. Don’t think you won’t break things. You will. In my case, I was successful enough to shatter 4 items. The mashed potato bowl, the saucer to the gravy ladle, a drinking glass. Oh, and a plate. Don’t cry about it. These things are unavoidable. And great photo ops.
2. Decorate real fancy with plastic plates and bowls. If you add name tags, pumpkins, and candles, people will think they are at a gourmet restaurant. Until they touch their plastic plates.
Then they will quickly be reminded that they are in fact, at their young relatives home.
3. If you enjoy eating turkey, don’t prepare it. Yanking the neck out of that sucker is not one of life’s finer moments. And it makes your muscles sore the next day.
Who knew those necks really are attached tightly?
4. Speaking of the turkey, don’t think you can take an appealing picture of it {uncooked}.
You will get something along these lines.
Do you think it looks like what I think it looks like?
Don’t answer that. This Blog is PG-13.
5. Need a place to store that turkey til’ it’s cooked?
Founder and creator of LIY, Erin turned her dream of a hobby blog into a full-time career which she now runs alongside the LIY team! When not in front of her computer screen [with a La Croix or wine in hand] or in front of a mirror taking mirror selfies, you can find Erin spending time on the water, cuddled up with her two pups and husband most likely watching the latest Shark Tank episode, or getting lost in an easy beach read.
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