Thanksgiving Dinner

Well, this year I decided that I would be helpful and cook dinner with my mom. We are also going over to our neighbors for dessert, so last night I made chocolate chocolate-chip cookies and peanut butter cookies with reeces in the middle (if I dare say, they are delicious! Credit for the latter idea goes to my neighbor). Today I got up and made a scrambled omelet with onions, marinaded tofu, tomatoes and feta cheeze...usually I include broccoli or cauliflower in the mix, but we had none. This was my first time working with tofu and feta, so it was an experiment, but I made a "double batch" for my mom too. It turned out decently! Yea, I now have a delicious, healthy breakfast recipe!
After that, we sat and fooled around for a while until 10am. That's when the cooking began. We both were cooking from 10:00am until 3:15pm, when we ate our Thanksgiving "linner" (lunch-dinner). I am pleased to say that I was able to cook the stuffing, a green bean casserole type of dish, corn souffle, and my mom and I split the mashed potatoes. She cut up fruit for a fruit salad and did everything with the turkey...I held it while she stuffed it, but that is all I could bring myself to do without being utterly disgusted. She also did the gravy. Sadly, I cannot say, from experience, how the latter two tasted, as I am a vegetarian, but I'm sure they were delectable.
All in all, it was a great learning experience and a fun way to spend the day with my mom. I hope to do this for our Christmas dinner as well! And with any other big meals we have like this from now on. I learn a lot about cooking, I make her life somewhat easier, and I get to have fun and spend time with my mom- I see no negatives to this.

So, for my first attempt at helping with Thanksgiving dinner, I am rather pleased! ...And it was over within half an hour, but it was still worth it! One day my brother will come around to enjoy and appreciate more than the turkey, fruit, and mashed potatoes. I'm not sure when, exactly, but I'm sure it will happen sometime. Maybe he'll even learn to cook too!...
But let's not get too excited here.