Last year's Thanksgiving was very depressing for me. Jason was out of the country and the kids and I ate leftovers for dinner. So this year, I vowed to make it a good one. A few weeks back I ordered my turkey. They are hard to come by here in the Netherlands, so my turkey was coming from France. It was a little pricey, but they took out the breast bone, stuffed, and baked it for me. We hit a little snag because the turkey was not ready to be picked up at the scheduled time. So my side dishes were ready and we didn't have the turkey. No worries though, I put the sides in the oven to keep warm until the turkey arrived. We had sweet potato souffle, green beans with shiitake mushrooms, turkey with stuffing, applesauce, and rolls. With the turkey came a sparkler, a Dutch tradition for holiday meals. Not too bad for my first Thanksgiving. We even had pumpkin pie for dessert courtesy of my lovely neighbor. We had the fire going and finished the night quietly (once the kids went to bed) with some coffee and Baileys. We missed our family, but it was a nice evening.
