Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving will be different this year especially since the pandemic. My thanksgiving will still be celebrated even though we are quarantined. It’s still a lot to be thankful for and I have a lot to be thankful for. To the food talk I know everybody is probably ready to smash some good ole home cooking. I have my menu planned out and this year I will be celebrating my first thanksgiving as an engaged woman. My fiance and I are very excited and ready. My menu will be Honey baked ham, green beans, corn, 6 cheese baked macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes, my famous baked beans, and rolls. I am still debating on doing Cornish hen or chicken wings as my other meat choice. My family and I don’t really eat turkey so our thanksgivings are different. For dessert there will be different flavors of pies, strawberry blueberry and New York style cheesecake, and of course my all time favorite banana pudding. No holiday that we celebrate doesn’t go without making banana pudding. My aunt always made the cheesecakes and banana puddings and now since I have got the recipes down pack now I have been trusted with making them this year. I’m 26 years old and I have three children and my kids are ready for mom’s cooking. My grandmother used to cook every year for thanksgiving except the years we went to Disney world. We lost my great aunt Barbara not too long ago and she was the one who planned the trips. So now we won’t be going on our Disney world trips unless we plan them ourselves. But this year I told my family that I’m cooking this year and now everybody is coming to my house for thanksgiving. I hope my brother and his family are able to attend. I miss my brother and my nieces. I can say that I’m thankful for my family. My children, my fiance, and my mom. Without her being my backbone this year I don’t think I would make it. My fiance has been here with me since day one and has never left my side especially since this pandemic. My children are the reason I live and keep going. They look up to me and I cherish every moment I have with them. I’m going to start a tradition where we say what we are thankful for. Yes I know most families do it already. But in my family we have never done that so now we will start as of this year. Everybody celebrates this holiday differently. Do you guys cook together or do you cook alone? I usually cook dinner by myself. I was raised to stay out of the kitchen when somebody was cooking. Now my fiance and I will be preparing this thanksgiving dinner together. My advice for thanksgiving this year since the corona virus is still follow guidelines if you are having family over like I am disinfect and have lots of sanitizer. Make sure everyone wash their hands because we all have some people in the family who don’t like to wash their hands. When everybody leaves of course clean up like you usually do. But clean it extra good, disinfect everything that anybody has touched. Yes their family but you’re not around them 24/7 and don’t know who they've been around. Not being negative at all just following safety guidelines. They say that you should limit how many people you should have in your house if you are having a get together. Please be safe everyone. I hope everyone has a very fun, safe, and blessed thanksgiving. Like my story feel free to leave a tip.