My wife has 10 brothers and sisters (she’s Italian Catholic and they have big families) and with their kids and grandkids our thanksgiving dinners generally have about 60-70 people. She’s the cook of the family and since her mother died she’s become the matriarch of her family. She started cooking today in order to feed a group that big. She’s the acknowledged chef of the family and she is gifted in that regard. I’m the lucky guy who married her and gets to eat like a king not only on thanksgiving but pretty much every night. God is good.
We have a large family as well, but growing up at the end of the family ... well, all of the older children went their own way.
At least everyone on our family was expected to pitch in, and so each of us younger ones learned how to do something in the kitchen.
As my wife and I get older we are working hard to keep the holiday events a big part of our children and grandchildren.
Then when they are old they will not depart.
I miss those days.
Nice post. You’re lucky.