After the Turkey

What a great Thanksgiving! I really did not have turkey but chicken. It was all very good and we had 3 days of leftover food and 3 days of leftover dessert, funny no wine was leftover... We did a little shopping and enjoyed the weather on Friday and Saturday.

I love this holiday because you get to be yourself, you don't have to think of something to give another person ( not that I don't like presents) it is just nice to be with family and friends with very little expectations.
When you start to expect a certain kind of behavior from people that is when things always go awry. Take last year for example; I have one sister who started drinking way before dinner and when she drinks she loves everybody so get ready for big wet kisses and she has loose lips so if there is something we want kept a secret we don't tell her, there is always one family member who brings someone that everyone dislikes ( you can imagine how that turns out), my sister-in-law is a terrible, terrible cook yet she always insist on bringing a dish which is always left over and she can't understand why not many people touched it, ( we know why!), and of course there is always a fight...it just can't be helped. But this year it was calm cool and relaxing sometimes less people is a good thing. Hope yours was the same.