Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas OH MY

Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas - oh my....I can't believe how close these 3 holidays are looming!

We are virtually ready for Halloween - We have costumes anyway.

Thanksgiving will be here rather quickly and Grandma Mary is coming to visit - we look forward to this every year!!!

After that then we run head on into Nutcracker - Thank you to all of you who want to come and watch Lauren dance!! Her face lit up like a candle when I told her who all was coming!!! And we all know "beaming with joy" faces are not Lauren's specialty!

and then....Christmas is just a hop skip and a jump away from that!

Wow, the things that need to be done - the list would be pages long if I wrote it all down (which you know I will)

So my questions to all my Internet friends are:

1. Have you started preparing for the Holidays yet or will you procrastinate until the last minute on each?

2. What is your favorite thing to do each December?

3. What is your least favorite about these last 2 months of each year?

Calling all good cooks...

HA! Even you aren't a good one I am still calling on you! I am hunting recipes that can be prepared ahead of time, bake in the oven for roughly 2 hours or in the crock pot most of the day...I have spent many an hour on the Internet and the problem is you never know what it really tastes like! So I figure...hit the blog - your friends must have a few recipes for you!

So...here's the gist...I need dinners for Dance nights this fall...I need to either be able to put them in the oven before we leave the house and have them done when we return (up to 2 hours later) or do the crock pot thing. Sounds easy enough right? Well, they also have to meet the family requirements, no fish, no rice, no nuts, no tomato or onion chunks (sauce or seasoning OK), no ricotta or blue cheese, - Hmmm I think that is it - oh wait...NO BONES.

We can do the basic lasagna, stuffed shells, beef stew, potato soup type things any thoughts? Post em in the comments or email me terra@temerson.com

THANKS!!!

(PS - I am NOT a good cook!!)