Lunch Before Thanksgiving
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Family on Tuesday, November 23, 2010 5:00 PM
Turkey and all the trimmings? Piece of cake!
You know what aspect of any Thanksgiving is hardest for me?
The meal right before the big feast.
The one where I’m multi-tasking several different dishes, scurrying to finish so I can get the kitchen in shape, get the wine chilling, shower and be presentable before guests arrive.
Somehow it’s always at the peak of this activity that the kids (and sometimes even Hubby) come in to announce they’re hungry, what’s for lunch?
In our house growing up, it was understood that any evening Mom was entertaining “fancy,” after we’d all pitched in with housecleaning, Dad’s role was to take us kids on an outing and feed us to keep us out from under foot and prevent blanket forts from appearing in the freshly straightened living room.
Mr. Teti did not grow up with this wise custom, and it was a shock for me when the kids first arrived that its rightness was not self-evident as I’d supposed.
I’ve adjusted over time: mostly by announcing that anyone who doesn’t eat by “X” hour will be out of luck.
But keeping messy projects and stray socks out of the “good” rooms I’ve just cleaned until company comes is still a challenge, especially if it rains on Thanksgiving.
Who has a trick for getting your family to skip lunch?
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