Oh, I absolutely agree, having relatives living with you puts an incredible strain on everything. My mother is living with my sister, and she is stressed out even though she has full time care for her. I guess your mother's whole world was turned upside down when they D. Maybe there is some way to get back some of the closeness y'all once had. I hope you have a space to call your own, to get away from everyone, so you don't end up screaming and pulling your hair out.
Well, for Christmas, my MIL brings over corned beef and other stuff. I make potato salad, turkey, pecan cornbread dressing, regular potato and rutabaga mash, and some sort of green vegetable, so i you have any ideas there, let me know. Oh, I know, creamed spinach! For sweets, I don't know, yet. I thought about making molasses butterball cookies, and my H wants me to make a coconut cake. I want to try a recipe for cheese straws, too. I have lots of recipes I have used over the years, so if you need one, let me know. It is really so easy to cook a turkey, don't let anyone tell you it's hard to cook all this stuff. Dressing is nothing but mixing the cooled cornbread with toasted pecans, broth, and seasonings and other ingredients and cooking it. You can make it the day before and pop it into the oven for about forty minutes or so. Oh, I bought fresh cranberries to make cranberry sauce for the first time. I bought extra cranberries to string up for the birds. I think they like them, don't they? Oh, H is going to make sausage balls, too. Hey, you can have your mother help cook.
What kind of freelance work are you looking for? If you said, already, sorry. I hope you find lots of it.
So, what have you decided on for Christmas Dinner??
