Things I Learned During Thanksgiving Holiday...

Nutter Butter Banana Pudding is a thing of beauty.

The Nutter Butter Banana Pudding recipe could use some clarifying.

I do not need more serving platters. I need to unpack the serving platters I currently own.

I need to keep a careful eye on my growing love of vintage of jewelry, minks, and dresses. This could develop into a serious problem.

Buying two pies because one is free means there will be one too many pies in the house.

Some cats never learn.

Ridding oneself of a back ache is not easy.

December is really too late to buy good tasting apples at the Farmer's Market.

I am definitely regretting not preserving fruits in the spring and summer.

It is possible to not have dressing, corn pudding, and macaroni and cheese on the Thanksgiving table and still enjoying the meal.

It is impossible to not have Pink Stuff, collard greens, and corn bread on the Thanksgiving table and still enjoy the meal.

Not recognizing most of the performers in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade makes me feel old and cranky.

Making Thanksgiving dinner with my mother was more fun than I could imagine.

I need to buy another apron or two.

It is imperative to clean as you cook if two cooks are sharing a small kitchen.

Annie and Phillip will never snuggle up together, but the hissing and growling may one day stop.

My mother accurately called the 2:35am driveway moment: a domestic dispute.

I am doomed to continually order the wrong size and kind of hot dog at Eastern Market.

I missed having the fifth Oliver at the Thanksgiving table more than I imagined I would.