Ten Things I Learned This Thanksgiving

1. Eating a brined turkey is like falling in love.
2. Eating a brined turkey that's been stuffed with bacon, herbs and butter is like awesome sex.
3. Matt is not to be trusted around a freshly carved turkey. I may have cursed.
4. If you are properly organized, it is completely possible to cook an entire Thanksgiving menu on your own. It is however impossible to take enough pictures of said dinner, without the use of a tripod. 
5. If you clean as you go, it's doable to have a clean kitchen by the time you serve dinner.

6. You're allowed to bake a green bean casserole in a bundt cake pan because you ran out of casserole dishes.
7. "This is an Irish household. We even cook our poultry in pork" needs to be pasted in vinyl lettering on my kitchen walls.
8. If cleaned properly, a refrigerator shelve can be used as a cooling rack for cookies. I'm all about improvisation.
9. If you ask your Mother in law to bring sweet potatoes and rolls and she can only remember one, it's always the sweet potatoes. Always. 
10. It is a sad, sad day when you finally run out of leftover stuffing. We all cry.