I love this time of year. Decorating my home, buying gifts for loved ones but most importantly I love the time I get to spend with my loves one and it’s generally around a table filled with amazing foods.
When I was little I remember my whole family coming together and the adults would all huddle in the kitchen helping to prepare all the foods while my cousins and I would run around the house and play. Sadly by the time I reached middle school my entire family had picked up and moved to the Daytona Beach area in Florida while we remained here. My Dad and stepmother still fly down every holiday but as a family of five we just can’t afford to do that and it always makes me sad.
I started dating my husband in ninth grade and since my own family had left when I was 16 I began attending his family’s functions. I’ve been with them ever since. While our home isn’t big enough to take on his family I would love to be able to host one year. Until then I enjoy helping out and generally bring a side dish and a dessert.
One favorite I like to bring is my Candied Carrots. One day I hope I can make them as my side dish with the rest of my family.
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For me it was always being with my Grandmother at her house during the holidays. Everyone came there and we had so many people it would take up the kitchen, breakfast table, formal dinning room, downstairs living and upstairs living room. Some times we still didn’t have enough places for people to sit. She had the perfect house for it too. 3 stories that had balconies you could see from first to 3rd floor. So everyone could talk to everyone. The house was always filling with family, friends, talking, fighting, laughing and food, soooo much food. I miss those days. I adored that home so much that when she sold it I was heartbroken. I hope to one day buy it back and continue those family gatherings there.
A very nice Thanksgiving memory is from 2000 when all the family showed up as we had raised our our turkeys that year. Three forty pound turkeys graced our table that year with 30 family and friends that came to share the day with us. We had worked for a week preparing all that we could in advance for the day. It was truly a blessed day. Daura