Food Food and more Food

Thanksgiving is my family's Holiday. Christmas is nice, Easter is good, but our main holiday is thanksgiving.
Now in my family we do it all day long. It gets a bit overwhelming if you did not grow up with it that way, but I am a native so it is kinda cool. We eat all day long too, seriously all day long. My family also runs well can we say a bit late, I mean hour late. So we plan out the day accordingly. It has been discovered that the best way to get everyone there on time (meaning: with in the first 3 hours) they are in charge of setting up or munchies. Now we set up around 10 in the morning so that the turkeys can start cooking.

So the food then is asked to be their at 11, and it starts wondering in about 12:30.

We do a pot luck dinner, and we always have enough food to feed our family and another army. Every one chooses something to bring, then we all bring other things because we are always sure that some one will forget something or that we might run out. We never run out of anything, for example, we had a small gathering this year (about 40) so we had 3 turkeys and 2 hams. No chance of running out of food in my family.

We also eat for hours, as each munchie arrives, late it gets put out, and we eat that until the next one arrives, with it all being put out about an hour apart we have food all day long. We sit down to eat, have our first helping and then my sweet cousin decides to give us a test on thanksgiving. It was pretty funny, but a test? We eat dinner again, clean the kitchen, play some more games, then start preparing dessert. By this time you realize you have been eating and nibbling non stop for the past 6 hours! Yet somehow you can still eat more.

Gosh I am now stuffed and as we were on our way home we stop at some friends house and they feel obligated to offer us food. How do you politely say If I eat another bite I will explode? Now we did invite them to dinner and if they had joined us then they would never dream of offering food, but they have never experienced our dinner or the sheer volume of food, so they didn't know what they were doing.

It was a very nice Thanksgiving. I love all of my cousins and their little ones, but the only little ones that we had this year were from out of town, so with only two it was pretty mellow and quiet. Very nice, and wee got to spend time with every one since we were not all running around chasing a kid here or there.

I hope your thanksgiving went well.