1. Never host without your mother present. In fact,
2. Have activities planned other than Football in front of the TV. Otherwise every male in the family (specifically your uncles) will promptly fall asleep after Thanksgiving Dinner and sleep until it's time to go home. Ruining all your plans for a nice family chat around the table with coffee and pie.
3. When preparing for Thanksgiving, it's totally not a big deal to spend Tuesday night out late at your sibling's house crafting Christmas trees and drinking coffee until midnight because, you have work off tomorrow, and you'll get all your cleaning done then, right?
4. Be specific when asking family members to bring sides. A Thanksgiving veggie tray doesn't typically include soy beans and guacamole...but this year it did.
5. I wouldn't suggest decorating your house for Christmas until well after you're hosting duties are complete. Otherwise this will happen and you will have to lock the door in shame so guests don't accidentally open this door thinking it's the bathroom and learn all of your deepest, darkest secrets:
6. Don't trust your uncles or G'ma with taking the family Christmas card picture on Thanksgiving Day. This results in a lot of wonky, poorly lit, off-center pictures that will make the whole family annoyed about having to re-take them again. Which we did...two hours later.
7. Attempting to make an adorable 'Kid's Table' will blow up in your face. The kid's will spill Cranberry Sierra Mist on your carpet leaving a nice, big pink stain. Your dreams of having some nice coloring-while-watching-Peanuts-Thanksgiving-cousin-time will be shattered. It was cute while it lasted though...
8. Making sugar cookies on Thanksgiving morning just so the house will smell like freshly baked cookies when guests arrive is a bad idea. It makes the kitchen even hotter, makes a bigger mess, and in the end no one really cares that you were an adorable Thanksgiving host because you got up early to bake leaf and pumpkin-shaped cookies.
9. Adult supervision at the trampoline is overrated when it's 30 degrees on Thanksgiving Day and the kid's insist on jumping before, during, and after dinner. Poor Josh and my oldest cousin Nathan got stuck with trampoline duty all the live-long day. Get ready because I'm about to drop some knowledge: If your kid's want to go jump on the trampoline...YOU go watch them. They're YOUR kids. We will no longer be manning the tramp for hours on end while parents sit comfortably inside napping and drinking coffee. I will take zero responsibility for their coats not staying on and their mittens getting lost when I'm in the middle of making green bean casserole and also IT'S FREEZING OUTSIDE. Nothing wrong with going out for 10-15 minutes to watch (see below for how amazing my husband is), but if your children demand to jump longer than that, it's your problem. #endrant
10. Make sure to get in some good grandparent time. Forget about the dishes and the pink pop stain on the floor and the uncles snoring in the living room because those precious grandparents won't be around forever. Sit down and visit with the G'mas while they drink their coffee and eat their pie because they actually GOT the pleasant vision you had in mind for Thanksgiving.
This year we were SO BLESSED to get to see ALL SIX of our grandparents on Thanksgiving Day. This hasn't happened since our wedding day, and we're not sure it will ever happen again...so it was pretty sweet. After most of my family left, we met Josh's whole family our at the acreage to show off our work at the farm. Seeing all the grandparents was definitely the highlight of our crazy Thanksgiving.
MmB
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