Laissez les bon temps rouler!

Or in English…”Let the good times roll!”

It is times like these that I really miss Pensacola (Florida).  Today is Fat Tuesday.  If you live anywhere other than Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, or Mississippi, this might mean a few beads and some masks.  However, if you are a true southerner, Mardi Gras season is a lifestyle.  The New Orleans’ influence spread throughout the south and it is not unusual for people to take a day or week off of work to celebrate.  Beads, beer, bushwhackers, beignets, and more are found in abundance at parties, on the streets, at masquerade balls, in parades, schools, and workplaces.  Mardi Gras is a time for everyone to celebrate life and happiness and for many, the preparation for Lent.  Fat Tuesday is a day of serious indulgence before Ash Wednesday.

You cannot throw a Mardi Gras party without the ultimate Fat Tuesday centerpiece…the King Cake.  This cake is a Danish creation rolled up jelly roll style and filled with cinnamon, raisins, and more.

The tradition is that each person takes a piece of cake hoping to find the plastic baby inside (I think my cake was cut perfectly…the baby reaching out for someone to pull it from the cake!).  Whomever finds the plastic baby in their piece is crowned King or Queen for the day.  They are also supposedly obligated to host the Mardi Gras party the next year and supply the King Cake.

You can order your cake from an authentic bakery in New Orleans or elsewhere in the south.  They are shipped all over the nation around Mardi Gras.  OR you can make your own!  It really is not difficult, though it does involve yeast and rising time.  I found an excellent recipe here at allrecipes.com.

Instead of doing all the proofing, rising, and kneading on my own, I stuck the ingredients in my bread machine.  For most machines you start with the liquids first (I did use warm milk and softened the butter in the microwave).  Then you put all the dry ingredients in and make a well in the top of the mound of flour.  This is where you put the yeast (no proofing and letting it bubble in with the sugar, etc.).  When using a machine you do not want to let the yeast and liquids mix (I also keep it away from the salt) until the heat is spreading through the dough.

You see though, I only have a 1.5 pound bread machine.  The most dry ingredients (I think all combined) you are supposed to put in the machine is 4 cups.  The recipe calls for 5.5 cups of just flour.  Guess what happens when you don’t follow directions?

Oops!  Hee hee, silly me!  Really though, I would probably do it the same way again, even though my dough tried to escape from the machine!  It was still a time saver and still rose perfectly fine.

After the first rising you roll the dough out into a rectangle and sprinkle the crumb mixture evenly over the rectangle.  Then roll it up jellyroll style beginning on a long side, pinching the seam firmly together.

Repeat the process with the second half of dough and place on a piece of parchment paper on a large cookie sheet, forming a ring.  Again, press the two ends together on each side of the ring, firmly sealing the ring.  Here is the ring after cutting slits in it, and again after the second rising.

HOW DO I LET MY BREAD RAISE???  Thank you for asking!  I preheat my oven to 175 degrees and then turn it off!  Crack the oven door open with a wooden spoon and after it has had about 5 minutes to air out, put the dough in the oven.  This should provide the perfect temperature for the next hour or so to allow your bread to rise.

After it has fully risen, bake it in the preheated oven, cut a small hole in the bottom and stick the baby inside and drizzle the topping over it.  I let my cake rise for a LONG time.  This caused two problems.  One, I should have baked it for about 5 minutes less (possibly even shorter).  The outside was SO tough.  But the inside was still great and it tasted wonderful.  Two, I had to quadruple, yes, quadruple the icing recipe so I would have enough to cover the cake.

Make sure everyone knows there is a baby in the cake before they start eating!  These days with choking precautions, etc, a lot of people will simply put the babies on top as decorations.

Decorate it with some beads and Mardi Gras colorfulness and you are ready to party with the best of them!  So here is my ode to Pensacola Mardi Gras…I’m with you even if only in spirit.

Tags: King Cake, mardi gras, Marissa

Valentine’s Day Sugar Cookies

As I surveyed our pantry, I realized that although we just went grocery shopping we did not have much by way of snacks.  I decided to make sugar cookies with the kids and we had a blast.  I absolutely love the way the kids wear flour and powdered sugar and don’t bother trying to hide the fact that they are sneaking sugar cookie upon sugar cookie as soon as they hit the plate. 

This is the sugar cookie recipe that my mom has used since my sister and I were little girls.  It is just the perfect flavor.  We make these cookies every year for Christmas but this is the first time I have made them for another holiday.

Ingredients

1 1/2 cup powdered sugar

1 t. vanilla

1 egg

1 t. cream of tartar

1 cup margarine, softened

1/2 t. almond extract

2 1/2 cup flour

1 t. baking soda

Mix powdered sugar, margarine, vanilla, almond extract, and egg.  Stir in the remaining ingredients.  I usually start with my Kitchenaid mixer and then finish mixing the dough by hand.  Cover and refrigerate for at least three hours.  When it comes out of the refrigerator, it may seem crumbly.  Mix it up and knead the dough by hand.  Roll out on a lightly floured surface (or my favorite Pampered Chef pastry mat!) and cut with cookie cutters. 

Bake on a lightly greased cookie sheet at 375 degrees for 7-8 minutes.  The longer they cook, the crispier they will be.  Cool on a baking rack. 

Once completely cool, frost with your favorite frosting.

I usually use a buttercream frosting, but this time I used a powdered sugar frosting.

Ingredients

2 cups powdered sugar

2 T. vanilla

2 T. milk

food coloring if desired

Mix the vanilla and milk and add powdered sugar.  Continue to mix until it is almost a pourable consistency but not quite. 

I also made a chocolate powdered sugar recipe.  Following the above directions, I just added 2 T. of cocoa powder to the powdered sugar before combining with the liquid.  Next time, I will probably not add the vanilla or only add about 1/2 teaspoon.  I felt like the frosting was much overpowered by the vanilla.  The kids don’t have a problem with it though!

Once you cover the cookies with frosting (it will be messy!!), allow to dry for at least an hour.

Tags: Baking, cookies, decorating, dessert, frosting, Holidays, Jennifer, valentine's day

Homemade Magnetic Valentines

‘Tis the season of hearts, chocolate, Cupid and his arrow, and Hallmark cards.  As with many other holidays, my true love is/will still be out to sea on a gigantic air craft carrier while I am sitting at home TRYING very hard not to eat the candy our kids bring back from school.  Have I mentioned before that my children do not eat candy?  Yes, I know, surely there was a chromosome that was switched or left behind or broken in half or something when they were conceived.  Whatever happened, our children do NOT have a sweet tooth.  I finally just got rid of last year’s Halloween candy.

Anyways…Since Dad is out to sea, we have to prepare early to send him a care package in hopes that it will get there on time.  The average arrival time during his deployment was 10 days.  Then there was the package that took 5 months to get there.  Sometimes it only takes a few days.  Whatever the case, it is always better to be safe than sorry!

We kept this care package simple.  I made some of his favorite homemade trail mix with a Valentine spin – basically a million different types of nuts, dried cranberries, and the Valentine m&m’s to give it a nice red and pink tone!  I threw in a bag of Gobstopper Heartbreakers and also opened the bags of several mixed candy packages – Butterfingers, Hershey Kisses, BabyRuths, Nestle’s, Peanut Butter Cups, etc – to toss in loosely with everything else.  Really, my husband won’t eat many of those items, but everyone in the offices shares their care packages with everyone else.  A lot of people don’t ever get things sent to them at all, which I think is a terrible shame.  I would send every person on that ship a care package for each holiday if I could.

For the actual Valentine part I made him a nice simple little card using small paper hearts to make a flower in the middle on the front of the card (forgot to take a picture before packing it up).  The kids made their own special valentines though!  A reminder: Dad is out on a aircraft carrier, an all metal aircraft carrier.  I don’t know if anything on that ship is not made out of metal.  This, of course, makes it very easy to send him things that are magnetic.  Homemade magnetic picture Valentines to be exact!

Now, I don’t have a fancy dancy paper/vinyl/magnetic cutting machine like so many of you do, and I probably never will.  So we had to do this the old fashioned way!

For the materials I used a 40% off coupon at my favorite craft store to buy a roll of magnet that has one peel off adhesive side (regularly $9.99 for I think a foot by two feet of magnet and make sure you don’t buy the kind that has one paper side), and at home I already had craft paper, stickers, and an x-acto knife.

First, take the magnet out of the packaging and lay it out flat weighted down by books for a day so it won’t curl up while you are working with it.  To begin the project, I cut out two 6 x 6 inch pieces from the magnet and saved the rest for later.  I then cut the same size out of my background paper (shown in the picture in a blue pattern).

I removed the adhesive from one of the pieces of magnet and, being careful to keep it smooth, stuck the blue paper onto the magnet.  Using a symmetric heart I had cut earlier to use as a pattern, I placed the heart on top of the paper covered magnet and traced the outline with the x-acto knife.  Now I had my magnetic heart base. 

Since these were Valentine cards from the kids, I wanted them to decorate them as they pleased.  Little K and D used stickers to decorate the border of their hearts, leaving the middles clear for a picture.  After they were done, I used 3D mounting squares to place their pictures in the middle of their hearts. 

So there we have a fantastic, inexpensive, little Valentine’s Day care package for Dad so he knows how much we love him and are thinking of him!  Hopefully he will receive it in time and love his homemade magnets that he can stick anywhere on the ship!

Tags: Homemade, magnet, Military Care Package, pictures, valentine's day

Macadamia Brittle Cookies

Here is my last cookie post for a while…I promise!  I figured I should probably share with you one of the recipes I made for my 1st Annual Cookie Exchange!  I tried something that I have never made before (which is ALWAYS scary when you are preparing for a party).  I highly recommend testing new recipes PRIOR to the time you are going to make them to share with people.  Who knows, these could have turned out to be more like Messy Brown Chips instead of Macadamia Brittle Cookies.

Luckily for me, they turned out exactly as they should have.  At least they tasted great to me!  They are a definite toss back to the great taste of pralines.  This cookie has many different layers of taste.  You first get a taste of crunchy butter cookie, but then as the praline mixture starts to dissolve in your mouth it has the fantastic vibrancy of the macadamia nuts…true Hawaiian delicacies.  The after taste, I cannot quite pin down, put it is pretty darn great too.  I would not rate this as one of my favorite cookies ever or anything, but it is rare to find a treat with such fanciful layers.  A wonderful addition to a holiday party!

 Macadamia Brittle Cookies

Ingredients:

• 8 ounces coarsely chopped, toasted macadamia nuts
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
• ½ cup confectioners’ sugar
• 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
• 2 cups semisweet chocolate morsels, melted in microwave or double boiler

Directions:

1. In a heavy saucepan, cook sugar over moderate heat: shake the saucepan 2 or 3 times until the sugar melts, then cook without stirring until the sugar becomes caramel colored. Remove from heat and add ½ cup of macadamia nuts. Pour the praline nut mixture onto a cookie sheet covered with wax paper and let cool completely.
2. Grease 2 cookie sheets. Break apart praline mixture and grind in a food processor. Add the remaining toasted macadamia nuts and continue grinding until medium fine.
3. In a large bowl of an electric mixture, cream together butter and confectioners’ sugar on medium speed. Add flour and praline mixture and combine until well blended.
4. Roll tablespoonfuls of dough into 2 ½ inch logs. Arrange them 1 inch apart on cookie sheets and flatten each log slightly. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until lightly colored.
5. Let cookies cool in pan for 5 minutes then transfer to wire rack to cool completely. When cool, dip in melted chocolate and let cool on wax paper.

Tags: Baking, cookies, macadamia nuts, Marissa, party

Chocolate Crinkles

Here is yummy recipe #2 from my first annual cookie exchange.  I think it is a fairly well known cookie.  Chocolate crinkles are basically a brownie mixture that you chill for HOURS.  After waiting and waiting and waiting, you take the dough out of the fridge, roll it into balls and coat it with powdered sugar before baking.  It is totally worth the wait.  This was the other cookie from the exchange that was gone the first day I had them.  So yummy and addictive!  Thanks H.B. for contributing!.Chocolate Crinkles

• 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 2 cups white sugar
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 4 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar

Directions:

1. In a medium bowl, mix together cocoa, white sugar, and vegetable oil.  Beat in eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla.  Combine the flour, baking powder, and salt; stir into the cocoa mixture.  Cover dough, and chill for at least 4 hours.
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.  Roll dough into one inch balls.  Coat each ball in confectioners’ sugar before placing onto prepared cookie sheets.
3. Bake in preheated oven for 10 to 12 minutes.  Let stand on the cookie sheet for a minute before transferring to wire racks to cool.

These cookies have a wonderful cracked texture with the powdered sugar.  They will add beauty and taste to any holiday place setting!

Tags: Baking, chocolate, cookies, Marissa, party

Holiday Graham Cracker Bark

My FAVORITE recipe from the cookie party so far!!!  How can I be so sure it is my favorite!?  Not only have I eaten my share from the cookie swap, but I have also eaten all the leftovers from the platters that were brought to share during the party.  I am a huge fan of toffee, but this might possibly take the place of any toffee recipes I have.  It isn’t exactly the same, but it has an amazing melt in your mouth buttery flavor. And it sounds so easy to make!  I cannot wait to try making it myself and I HIGHLY suggest you try it ASAP!!!

Thank you J.G. for this AH-MAZING recipe!  Oh, and I have no pictures of it to share because I ate it all!!!  Sorry!

Holiday Graham Cracker Bark

• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup butter
• 3/4 cups chopped walnuts (or your choice)
• 6 ounces semi sweet chips
• 1 package graham crackers

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a 9 x 13 pan with tin foil and cover with one layer of graham cracker pieces.  Combine butter and brown sugar in a sauce pan.  Bring to a low boil, stirring constantly.  Remove from heat and stir in nuts.  Pour sugar mixture over crackers and then bake in preheated oven for 8 minutes.  Remove from oven and let cool for five minutes.  Melt chocolate chips in the microwave and pour over top of cooled grahams.  Cool in fridge.  ENJOY!

You will SO NOT be sorry if you try this recipe.  Talk about WOW factor!!!

Tags: Baking, Christmas, Holidays, Marissa, Toffee

Marissa’s 1st Annual Cookie Exchange

My family is famous for cookie swaps.  I think Jennifer is on her 8th? year of hosting her annual cookie exchange.  Down South they are serious and take cookie swapping to a whole new level.  It has evolved into it’s own living breathing cookie creature.  The first year a couple of us got together to bake cookies.  I think by year two we already decided that was too much work and we would just bring cookies to share.  Then some people started packaging stuff a little more cute than usual and then she started having prizes for who’s was the most creative.  Of course, the gauntlet had been thrown down!  Now people plan months in advance for the best tasting cookie, most clever packaging and tackiest Christmas sweater (everyone decided they had to compete with mom’s sweaters) :o).  Those are only a few of the highlights too!  There is a gift exchange and more!  It is a great time for friends to get together, share great recipes and eat good food.  Unfortunately, I moved away a year and a half ago and this was my second year missing the cookie party.  They gave me the option last year to send my cookies in to compete, but there was just too much going on!

This year I decided it was high time I continue the tradition on my own and I threw my first Christmas Cookie Swap.  It was planned a little on the fly so I didn’t have time to incorporate all the things I wanted to, but there is always next year!  I had a great turn out and there were AWESOME cookies.  I love any excuse to hang out with my neighborhood ladies and today was no exception.  A few of the highlights of my party:

• 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place for most creative packaging/beautiful cookies (this was included in the invite) and because we all have a great sense of humor, a prize for “maybe next year!”
• Each guest brought 4 – 6 cookies per person attending pre-packaged for easy “grab and go” as well as enough printed recipes for each guest to take home with them (I made it clear if people did not RSVP by a certain date they would not be able to attend and emailed the number of guests out a few days before)
• Guests were also encouraged to bring their “leftovers” on a tray for the ladies to snack on during the party
• I had a small amount of meats, cheese, olives, and crackers to snack on as well as mimosas, coffee, wine, etc.

Things I will be prepared for next year:

• Cute name tags, probably designed to look like recipe cards
• A “theme” such as tacky sweater or maybe even holiday cocktail…we all have those dresses we have to wear to holiday parties, why not get an extra use out of them!
• Next year I will probably switch and do it late on a Sunday afternoon like they do back home; I just think it would be easier

I am so blessed with so many amazing friends.  I love my neighborhood and I am so thankful I have these woman to support me and my family in the good times and the not so good times.  Thank you everyone for helping me make my Christmas even more special this year! 

I am including some of my favorite pictures from the party and it was so hard to choose!  I plan, it time allows, to post my favorite three recipes over the next week or so.  There were so many fantastic cookies!

Tags: Christmas, cookies, Entertaining, Holidays, Marissa, party

Easy Chocolate Peanut Butter Patties

It is holiday cooking baking time!!  These “patties” are easy to make, don’t actually require any baking, and little people can help out!  They lend themselves particularly well to cookie exchanges … easy, fun & fancy looking, and package well!! Just be sure that you label them as “containing peanut butter” for anyone that might have nut sensitivities/allergies.

Ingredients:

2 boxes Ritz crackers

l large jar Peanut butter, creamy or chunky

2 large packages Chocolate melts/bark

Decorations/sprinkles

Makes: A whole bunch!! (more than 100 sandwiches – but I lost count after making what I needed for the cookie exchange)

Directions:

Spread peanut butter on the inside of a cracker; put a top on it to make a little sandwich

Heat chocolate melts/bark in the microwave until smooth (check after 1 minute). If the chocolate is not thin enough for coating purposes, melt a bit of shortening and mix in well (do NOT use milk or water).

Using tongs, dip each sandwich in the melted chocolate mixture.  Let excess drip off and place on cookie sheet lined with parchment or waxed paper.

Decorate before chocolate has a chance to set (I usually add the decoration/sprinkles after dipping 4-6 sandwiches). Can set up quickly by placing cookie sheet in the refrigerator.

Store in an airtight container. 

Tags: chocolate, Christmas cookies, Cookie Exchange, cookies, Debbie, peanut butter, Ritz crackers

Creative Christmas Card Picture Idea

Hello everyone!  Well, as my sister already mentioned, I am also having a hard time posting my craft projects on here because, well, they are mostly for the people who read this blog on a regular basis!  I decided to post the picture I made for our family Christmas card last year.  Why can’t I post this year’s????  Hello!  It’s a surprise!  And they won’t be going in the mail for a little while longer, definitely not with enough time to help give anyone any ideas.  So without further ado, here’s the picture and I’ll write a little tutorial below!

First of all, you need a good photo imaging program because, yes, this is just one photo, not several glued together.  I have Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4). 

To set up the photo taking process, we each wore Christmas colors and jeans.  We had one Santa hat (yep, only need one) and one full size piece of blank white poster board.

I took pictures of each family member holding the poster board in front of them.  Hints:  Hold it as flat toward the camera as possible to make the image editing easier, and hold your fingers as close to the edge as possible or you will have to deal with that in editing as well.  We knew our daughter would be the smallest photo so she would not need to hold the poster board (that of course helped a lot too since she is the youngest!).  My husband and I did the “Brady Bunch” look down at the poster board while we were taking the pictures so it would appear we were looking at the kids.  Since the kids grow so much every year I definitely wanted them both looking at the camera.  We stood in front of a blank wall and also angled the poster board in opposite directions for each step down.

If I remember correctly, we took around 500 pictures between the four of us.  I wanted to get our poses just right because I knew very little would be happening in the editing process.  Also, I knew there was no way I would get the family to agree to do it a second time if necessary!!!

The editing was actually the easy part.  However, here you do have to know a little about Photoshop to be able to do it.  I chose my favorite picture of each person and did the basic editing to get the colors to pop, etc.  To begin making one picture, I started with the youngest first.  I made her picture a smart object so it could be easily copied and pasted onto my son’s picture.  I used the free transform (under “edit”) to size her picture down and to skew it to make it fit exactly in the shape of his poster board.  The white frame around each picture is the actual piece of poster board.  I thought it looked a lot cuter with all of us framed.  The less flat you held your poster board during the actual photo taking process, the more you will have to skew it to fit inside the next person’s poster board, thus, the less of a rectangle the inserted pictures will be.  Also, if you didn’t angle the board in the right direction to make it flip flop for each person, you can simply “flip” the image before putting it “on” the poster board.

I did this same process with the picture I just created of my son “holding” my daughter, and I imposed them onto the piece of poster board I was holding in my picture…etc, etc, until we were all in one picture.  I did a few more slight color fixings so it would look as close to one photo as possible, and Ta Da!  A super fun Christmas card! 

We got SO many compliments, but the best part was it was also SUPER FUN to make!  This years was a lot of fun too and hopefully I will remember to post it after we send it in the mail!

Tags: Christmas Card, Creative, family, Marissa, Photo, Picture

Personalized Beaded Napkin Rings

While I’ve never been a big user of napkin rings (or my husband a user of napkins), I still love them. I used to have a neighbor that always used cloth napkins. After they finished eating, they would fold them in half and hang them on the back of their chairs. I always thought this was so neat and “fancy but casual”. I’ve tried it, but because I’m always using the kitchen table as my craft table, the napkins fall to the floor, the dog claims them, and I later find them in the backyard. But…Thanksgiving is a different story. Thanksgiving calls for all kinds of fancy; honestly, other than Christmas, when do you insist on hand washing the dishes instead of putting them through the dishwasher?

I found the idea for these napkin rings in a craft magazine I grabbed at a yard sale. (Hello, my name is Kelley and I’m addicted to Better Homes and Gardens Special Interest Publications.) Although I didn’t come up with the idea on my own, I did put my own little twist to them. So here ya go:

Supplies:

• Beading Wire: You’ll need the kind that is malleable. I bought 20 guage. The higher the number, the finer the wire. You want the stiffer stuff, but you don’t want it too big for your beads.

• Beads: Use whatever suits your fancy.

• Head Pins: These are what you use to make drop earrings.

• Needle nose Pliers and Wire Cutters

1. Decide on your bead layout and string them on your beading wire. Don’t cut the wire yet.

2. Once you have the desired length of beaded string (mine was about nine inches), make a small loop on the end of your wire. This is where you’ll attach the head pin.

3. Get a bead (or two) that matches your ensemble and put it on your head pin. Cut the head pin to leave the right about needed for a loop. Make sure you don’t close the loop before you hook it onto your beading wire. Personally, I found that closing the loop on the head pin last was easier than the beading wire. The head pin will take more “strength” to close, but if you do it slowly and carefully, I think you’ll end up with a nicer looking product.

4. Here’s where I give my other two cents’ worth: Instead of using a toilet paper roll to wrap the wire around, use a spool of thread. And here’s why: When you wrap the wire and then release it, it’s going to expand a bit. Using a spool of thread allows it to expand to the normal size of a napkin ring. When I tried using a toilet paper roll, it expanded to something that looked like a bracelet.

5. When you wrap your wire around the spool of thread take into account how much you’ll need for a loop on the end and then cut your wire. You don’t want to cut it before wrapping because you’ll need more length as you wrap. Put more beads on another headpin, cut, loop, and attach to the other end of your beading wire.

I did put my own twist to the these napkin rings. I decided to personalize the rings for each person. I know that it’s somewhat impractical if you aren’t sure who will be dining with you or if you plan on using them for regular meals, but I wanted to add a little extra. There’s also the fact that Marissa and her kiddos traveled down to have a big Thanksgiving with Jen and Debbie. And even though I wasn’t there, I wanted it to be super special for them. So…I thought I’d go ahead and send these napkin rings on over for them to use.

And so here’s what we have:

Debbie, Jen, and Marissa’s rings are made with various styles of pearled beads…because they really are pearls.

Jen and Marissa’s daughters are the two girliest girls you’ll ever meet. I made theirs with pink beads.

Jen’s son is a master soccer player. He has soccer beads with his team colors.

Marissa’s son is really into cub scouts (future eagle scout, I’m sure!). He has blue, yellow, and wooden beads.

Jen’s husband has a purple belt in Brazilian Jujitsu. Although I made his with purple and black beads, don’t laugh, because he can totally kick your butt…or twist you into a pretzel…whichever you prefer.

Marissa’s husband is in the navy, and although he is deployed and won’t be there for Thanksgiving, he still get’s a spot at the table. I made his with red, white, and blue beads (they also have stars and stripes on them!).

A little tacky? Maybe.

A little extra special? I really hope so.

Thankful for all of them? You have no idea.

Tags: table setting, Thanksgiving