Fall

Things to do in the Fall...well I don't necessarily have one specific thing that I always do every year. However, Thanksgiving happens in the Fall and Thanksgiving is my absolute favorite holiday. Every year I get to have two different Thanksgiving dinners in one day. I get to eat Thanksgiving lunch in Jacksonville, IL at my mom's parents' house. I eat there with my mom's whole side of the family. That consists of at least 20 different people eating all together in the same room. It can get to be pretty hectic at times but can also be a very fun time. Then, from there, we go about an hour north to the state capital, Springfield, IL. There we eat at my dad's mom's place. Even though she lives alone, and works all the time just to fill the empty void, her Thanksgiving dinner is the best thing ever. Nothing will ever compare to it for me. I look forward to that one meal every single year. This meal is all being made while she is at work. The first thing to start with is the turkey. She gets a huge butter turkey every year for just about 6 of us. She puts it in this pot with chicken stock, yeah I said chicken stock, and even more butter and lets it cook while she is off at work, working the buffet lunch at the Chesapeake restaurant, a fancy seafood and steak restaurant in Springfield. Then she gets these noodle things from the State Fair every year and cooks those later with the stock of the turkey and chicken stock as well as cooking the stuffing with the same juices. She uses the typical boxed stuffing and adds those juices. Then there are random bits and pieces of everything else here and there, including ham for my sister who doesn't like turkey. It is the best time of the year.

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