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My sister in law lives four hours away. Their family of five comes for Thanksgiving, and we travel there for a post Christmas celebration. She started the tradition of handling breakfast for each night her family stays. She comes with a cooler packed with a premade breakfast casserole, pastries that can be warmed, mimosa and Bloody Mary ingredients, sausage balls, etc. Each morning, she wakes up and tackles breakfast and can even go back to bed if she chooses. As everyone wakes up, they come down to coffee and breakfast. It’s the most thoughtful hostess “gift!” Even if you just show up with store bought pastries, a nice juice or ground coffee, it’s such a departure from a bottle of wine or candle.

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Can I pin this to the top so my sis and brother see heh heh heh

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Love all of this, but Jenny’s poem brought me to tears! ❤️

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omg my parents are coming and I am queen of lists but I have never thought to type this out like this! Doing immediately thank you, it’s always chaos and we spend hours figuring out where to go eat dinner

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Merry Christmas, Caro!! Enjoy your family time! Such a blessing!

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thank you love!!!!!! you too!!! xoxo

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Can you please give some tips for an entry level caviar tasting? My first and only was at a fancy place in NYC twenty years ago, along with a 100 year old port (the manager was a friend …). I live in Wisconsin now so would love to understand a good reasonably priced mail order suggestion to make my little midwestern family understand how delightful and not scary caviar is!

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Costco (I know!) has good caviar. You might try there?

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I, too, am on the prime rib plan but looking for a recipe that lets me use my oven for those two hours! Any recs, folks?

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