#1 Now that it is Thanksgiving I tend to say the phrase "Happy Thanksgiving back" a lot. This is from the movie "You've Got Mail." Meg Ryan is trying to avoid Tom Hanks in a grocery store and accidentally gets in a cash only line. She doesn't have cash and is trying to pursuade the cashier to just use her card. Tom comes over and starts chatting it up. "Rose, that's a pretty name. Happy Thanksginving. Now you say Happy Thanksgiving back." The Indian lady gives him a weird look and says "Happy Thanksgiving back." I started saying this over the summer and it makes my mom crack up. So I say it a lot because I like to make my mom laugh.
#2 There is a speech we say every year as we get the turkey ready to cook and eat. It's really from my dad, I have no idea where it comes from. And it's a pun on words, so let's see if I can repeat it here. It has to do with dressing the turkey. "First you 'address' the bird. Hello bird." See it's a pun on dress and address. Ok maybe it doesn't make sense. But it's what we do.
Update: I found out why we say this. I guess it's from a Cosby episode where Cliff Huxtable is pretending to be like Julia Child the chef when he is preparing the Thanksgiving turkey. So Bill Cosby impersonates Julia Child, my dad impersonates Bill Cosby, and we impersonate our dad. But we had no idea. So we were saying things without even knowing.
#3 My mom is probably the only woman who has to make two different kinds of gravy for Thanksgiving. Jillian prefers the light brown poultry gravy. Stephen prefers the dark brown gravy usually served with pot roast. Since turkey is poultry Jillian should win, but because my mom loves us all so much, especially Stephen, she makes both kinds. What a mom.
I just hope that this year Stephen doesn't over do it and sit on the couch groaning all day like he did last year. That was gross.
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