I have a big problem with letting them bring food
because they just don't cook like I do.

One year the youngest wanted to bring something so I
said "bring a ham" thinking she would stop by the Ham
store and pick up an already cooked and sliced one.
We even talked about how easy it would be for her to do that.

I got a call from her 30 minutes before time to sit down
to dinner. " Do you think you have enough turkey without
the ham?" "Where are you?" "Oh, I'm at Kroger and they are
sold out of hams, can you believe it."
Last year she was going to bring a fruit gelatin salad.
She made it so late it didn't jell.

The others take it upon themselves to leave out key
ingredients and end up with food that is barely edible.
I'm just grateful that at least they want to help and in
time I'm sure their skill in the kitchen will improve.
Lord knows I've given them enough cook books.

I made my list of what I wanted them to bring this year
and emailed it.
I patted my self on the back at my accomplishment and
everything was fine until I got an email from DIL.
What do you want me to bring?
I emailed back as fast as my fingers could type.
I sent you an email. I didn't get an email, she fired back.

I quickly checked my email sent box and found to my
embarrassment that I had sent an email to someone else
by the same name.
So somewhere out there someone is scratching her head in
dismay and wondering why I assigned her the task of
bringing food to a Thanksgiving dinner for a family in
Georgia she probably has never met.
I hope she's a good cook. :0)

I really need to purge my email addys.
Bless my heart!

We got around the non-cooks by assigning them non-cook items such as pickles and dinner rolls -- and one darlin' is asked just to bring a couple tubes of crescent rolls (because she invariably burns anything she aims at the kitchen).

e-adds! I used to have to have regular contact with any of several hundred folks, and my downfall were those with the same first/last names... I finally stuck notes to the computer to remember that she at one school was middle initial A and she at another school was middle initial E, etc. And if you think a stranger is puzzled about a menu reminder, you should hear what a "wrong" teacher says about being asked for details on a special Ed eligibility for a kid she never heard of!

Have a happy T-day!

My kids all have demanding and weird work schedules, and I'm just overjoyed if we can find a time when we are all available. I know better than to try new dishes, unless they are in addition to the traditional ones. None of them are above whining about a flop. rofl.

Both my kids (and even my g'kids) are good cooks, and I've never eaten anything their spouses cooked I didn't like, so it doesn't matter who brings what if they decide to.

I'm laughing about unset jello and ham purchases half an hour before the feast. You are a smart lady. Veggie trays, deli hot rolls, bottle of wine. Cheese balls. Stuff they can pick up already prepared.

Steve, it's a good thing you hadn't planned on baking a
Pumpkin Pie, I understand there will be a shortage of
Pumpkin.
Eat more "sweet taters" I say.

Marda & Suzy, it is a good thing indeed to have a family of
good cooks. I've been teaching my grandson to cook and he
will come and spend the day with me and we will share the
cooking and baking. This year I've decided he can make the
Coconut Pie.

I love cooking with my g'kids. In fact, my g'son surprises me sometimes and teaches me a thing or two. He was about eight when he taught me how to load a waffle iron. His maternal gramps showed him how. He also gave me a better directions for making cheesecake. Kids, you gotta love them.

The funny thing about this whole thing is that not only had
I sent an email to the wrong person, I also emailed and
told her she could beg off cooking due to her vertigo
and I hoped she was feeling better.

I decided to email her once again and explain that I had
sent it by mistake and I hoped she would have a happy
thanksgiving. I also added a p.s. that if she did have
vertigo I hoped it was better.

I got a return email that was so funny I sat here and lol.
Neither she nor I know how I came to have her email, We
must have corresponded sometime.

I emailed her back to come on down but that the
DIL was bringing the green beans.
This has been a fun day and all because I sent an email to
the wrong person.