Memory of Thanksgiving

This year, my Thanksgiving holiday weekend was more relaxing than last year’s because I didn’t have to prepare the family’s dinner myself this time.  On Thanksgiving Day, my entire family was gathered on my younger sister’s little farm.  That morning, I arrived at my sister’s house earlier than my other family members to help my sister to prepare the dinner.  We divided cooking tasks into two parts; my younger sister was in charge of all the main and desert dishes, and all the side and appetizer dishes were my responsibility. My sister marinated the twenty-five pound--turkey while I cleaned up, cut the potatoes into small pieces and boiled them to make mashed potato and potato salad. After we completed these tasks, my sister prepared the stuffing and I washed cucumbers, carrots, lettuces and fruits, and then cut them into small pieces to prepare the salad dish.  I prepared the cranberry sauce: first I washed cranberries, and then I heated a medium-sized saucepan over medium heat, and dissolved some sugar in a glass of orange juice. I added the cranberries and cook them until the cranberries started to pop. This took me about 10 minutes. I then poured the sauce—which thickens as it cools— in a bowl. /Here’s an interesting fact: Cranberry sauce thickens as it cools.   I washed green beans to make green bean casserole and then I prepared the coleslaw dishes.   We finished preparing the Thanksgiving dinner around two thirty that evening. My sister’s guests and family members arrived while my sister and I were setting up the table.  We began to sit down to eat at around 4PM.  After the dinner, everyone went down to the family room and played games such as domino, bingo, video games, and ping-pong until midnight. Guests and half my family members had gone home, my sister and I cleaned the house until five AM on Friday morning and then we immediately went shopping (without sleeping!) from six in the morning to three o’clock that evening.  The weather was warm and nice, but I was too tired to enjoy it.  I slept from five-to-five on Saturday.

On Sunday morning, my family and I went to church from nine until noon. After that, I went to the Home Depot store to buy some white paint to paint all the doors inside the house. I began to paint from 3PM until 5AM on Monday morning (again without sleeping!), and then I went to school.