The Chronicles Of Nay

Happy Tuesday! I know I just posted yesterday but I had a little time to kill before my students band concert! My mom and I were talking, have you noticed that means I am about to tell you a funny story? haha And apparently we have a lot of stories about turkeys!

I don’t know how your family makes a turkey, however, my family stuffs it. We stay up late and make my great grandma Cordava’s stuffing recipe. We then put the turkey in a roasting bag that we floured. We rub down the turkey with butter before we stuff the turkey and put it in the oven.

Well one year my mom had the flu, but in true mom fashion the show must go on. My mom was all drugged up on flu medicine. We stayed up and followed these steps. Before we put it in the oven my mom said “this turkey is weird! what is wrong with it? It doesn’t sit right in the pan.” I was still learning the ways so I didn’t know what she was talking about. Given the circumstances I just thought she was talking to me in a drugged out haze! We put the turkey in the oven and went to bed! In the morning we got up and started doing the rest of the things. You know the potatoes, the vegetables what have you. We had the turkey on the counter and we were attempting to get the drippings out to make gravy when my grandma walked in took one look at our turkey and knew instantly what was wrong with our turkey. She said “why is your turkey praying?” My mom and I looked at it and my mom said “I knew there was something wrong with it! It’s upside down!” That was the year that we had no skin on our turkey! But it sure did account for a lot of laughs!

Many years later I hosted Friendsgiving and it was the first time that I make a turkey all on my own. I was terrified I was going to make my turkey upside down. When it is straight out of its little freezer bag packaging it is hard to tell what way is “normal” every way I turned it looked wrong! I must have sent my mom like 5 pictures asking if my turkey was right side up! haha Don’t worry it was the right way! haha

Well I am going to head to the auditorium to see this band concert! Do you have any holiday faux pas? I hope that everyone has a great evening!