Tikkabik

So we made it through Thanksgiving unscathed. It was just the immediately family: My mom, my in-laws, including my sister in-law and brother in-law, and their families. A manageable size. Though there was Situation with the turkey (my FIL insisted on cooking the turkey according to what it said on the label instead of what common sense dictated, requiring us to wait an extra hour and a half to eat), it was fabulous: A turkey that damn near weighed as much as James, a freshly baked spiral-cut ham, a salad the size of a football field, several tons of mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce with and without berries, two giant troughs of stuffing, and not nearly enough gravy.

We came home with three plates of leftovers. A good haul.