After attempting to cook in the sweltering kitchen, dodging the other cooks, and smelling the amazing food for hours as it cooks, moms are faced with another holiday-feasting blunder: the preparing of food plates for their kids. If you have multiple kids, as I do, you can forget making your own plate at the same time as you prepare theirs, which means you will likely miss out on some of the most delicious dishes. After trying to fill their plates with items you KNOW they will eat (turkey, macaroni and cheese, rolls) and adding a few things that you WISH they would eat (lima beans, cranberry sauce, broccoli salad) and delivering the plates to their impatient selves, Mom will get back in line to prepare HER plate from the scraped casserole dishes and rolls that have gone lukewarm. Alyson beautifully captures my feelings about this portion of the event in this picture.
