sooooooooooooooooon

I am so glad we are going simple this year. (and by simple I mean almost everything is precooked from the door. just heat and eat)

I've done years where we did as much as we could scratch and... nope. Not doing that again. I burn myself taking out the spiral ham EVERY SINGLE TIME.

You are amazing and have my respect for doing it yourselves.

My grandmother and I do all the cooking, we started yesterday and will finish about an hour before everyone shows up.

20 lb turkey
18 lb ham
fried chicken
mashed potatoes
mac and cheese
dressing
biscuits (homemade)
cornbread
green beans
corn
black eye peas butter beans sweet potato souffle broccoli salad fruit salad egg salad deviled eggs chicken and rice pecan pie banana pudding cookies plus a few other things others are bringing

WOW

That is.... wow.

It's also 2 in the morning and the turkey has to come out at 5:20 a.m.

How is it all hot when it comes to the table? How do you manage to not go insane?

crock-pots galore, the warming shelf of the oven, and cooking at ridiculous hours like now. and a lot of preprep.

You are so impressive and amazing.

It's as much my grandmother as me. I just do most of the heavy lifting and late night cooking.

oooof

And it will be repeated for x-mas in just over three weeks.

Ye gods

only with Lasagna in placed of the fried chicken and chicken and rice.

It manages to bring everyone together at once, which is all my grandmother really wants to these days. So I'll keep it going even if I cook the entire thing myself.

aww

That is amazing.

that is so much. dang respect

Getting set up

niiice

WOW

that's so much

And now with dinner done and kitchen clean, time to change the decorations.

By the end of tomorrow there will be an entire village under there.

ooo