My Mother-in-Law Ordered Me to Wake Up at 4 A.M. to Cook Thanksgiving for 30 — So I Left at 3 A.M. Instead

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That night, after Vivien left and Hudson fell asleep watching television, I sat at the kitchen table doing math. Real math. The kind that didn’t work no matter how many times I recalculated.

If I put the turkeys in at six a.m., they might be ready by two. But I needed the oven for the ham, the casseroles, the rolls. The timeline was impossible.continue reading …