Thanksgiving has always been a Muench celebration and a big one. There are relatives that fly in and drive from a long ways away. For the past 4 years, Melinda has held it in her home. She has the biggest home and enjoys doing it and probably always will. It is a big gathering with tons of food, homemade noodles, homemade rolls, mashed potatoes, turkey, pies, you name it. All morning the cooks are slaving away and we usually eat around 2:00. I am not great in the kitchen, so I try to avoid it if I can. I would rather get in on the clean up. The kids have the most fun with all the first and second cousins. It is always a fun time to see everyone. Sadly my parents do very little for Thanksgiving since my Grandma L has been in assisted living. Growing up it was always a big gathering at Grandma L’s. My parents talked that they wouldn’t do anything this year either and I didn’t think that was right. We decided we would split the day and spend the later part having a second Thanksgiving with my parents and my Aunt Alice. I felt that is was very important to spend that time with Alice as we are so thankful she is here and recovering from her extensive cancer surgery. We made a nice supper, I made sure to do mashed potatoes and gravy as this is something my mom doesn’t do anymore. Alice always makes really good sweet potatoes too. We played some board games later and everyone was tired from eating all day.
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