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Ten-Word Tuesday. The Thanksgiving Preparations Edition

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Two cans of Cream of Mushroom soup, celery, cider, two pounds of sausage with fennel — ah, it must be Thanksgiving. The above photo represents Bossy’s store list, which is partial, as it does not include pie ingredients for Bossy’s daughter.

For years which slipped inside decades, Bossy has been hosting Thanksgiving dinner for at least thirteen people at her house. Bossy insists upon this task and quite enjoys it, where enjoys it equals bring wine.

It’s not the cooking that stresses Bossy out, but the lack of space in Bossy’s shoebox diorama. In fact, furniture needs to be carried in and out of rooms as the Bossy family transitions from eating copious amounts of food around the coffee table to eating copious amounts of food around the dining room table.

And the kids, who are no longer kids but teenagers — there’s no room for them around the main table, so they are reduced, quite literally, to a hastily-carried low children’s drawing table with matching low chairs. The kids in Bossy’s family don’t so much eat Cholesterol Casserole as eat their knees.

Bossy can sum up the Bossy Thanksgiving experience in this way: Would it have killed the builder to enlarge some rooms?

Which is what today’s Ten-Word Challenge is all about. In exactly ten words, can you tell Bossy about your Thanksgiving experience? Or share with Bossy and her council those items on your Thanksgiving store list? Or tell Bossy what you’re preparing! In other words, write whatever Thanksgiving-ish thing you want!

And be sure to check back later today for the best Thanksgivingish things on the web.

And if you haven’t yet read this nice bedtime story about Bossy’s Dirty Little Thanksgiving Secret, click that link now!

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  3. Deliver meals for others Thursday. Party with friends on Friday.

    (I’m secretly a little too pleased with myself that I split my entry into 2 sentences of 5 words each. So apparently it really IS the little things.)

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  7. We’re in TX at this point, hiding from my family.

    I should add that THIS YEAR we are not in Texas visiting my husbands lovely low drama not insane family. This makes me sad on a number of levels, the lowest of which is the fact that Texas has the most delicious food in the world and now I can’t eat it. sigh. Also, it’s not that my family is comprised of monsters it’s just that I like to spend as little time with them as possible….because they are batshit.

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  28. I know I commented on the 3 year old Bossy column.
    Hope the Bossy family and crew have a great Turkey day. Warm or freezing in the USA this year I am GRATEFUL!

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  31. Can Bossy share with us the exact recipe for the cardiac cassarole?
    After googling,I am not finding anything as simple w/ these ingredients.

    I really want to make this.

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  32. 32lb Turkey not cooked by me, stuffing, lots-a-lots-a-lots-a, wine, wine!!!!

    the lots-lotsa is only 1 word, in my dictionary

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  64. #35 Dharmamama, why oh why would your spammer/alter ego/#31 want the recipe? Very mysterious.
    Now I’m imagining a robot happily cooking the cardiac casserole (after having bot-googled 5-billion recipes in 3 seconds to no avail.)

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