Our Budding Chef -- Thanks

Back when he was seven, our son won a contest In his class, his turkey recipe adjudged the best He was so happy, floating so high on cloud nine but first prize was something less than 'quite fine' He had to follow his recipe, cook our Thanksgiving meal a prize which to his parents had no real appeal As our son had never used the oven before we planned on having problems galore Sure enough, the new chef got off on the wrong foot as into a pan, a frozen turkey in its package he put Yet since the poor lad was so new to this game we simply chuckled a bit, refused to lay blame at the feet of our son, and explained so politely that a turkey frozen solid won't cook quite rightly He listened to us wide-eyed and dutifully then gave that bird time to thaw proper-beautifully Only --- so excited to start, he forgot the next instruction which caused more than just some minor destruction to the thawed bird, which was still in its package as it entered the hot oven, awaiting the wreckage... Well, you can imagine the looks on our faces hearing the turkey begin to 'pop, crackle, snap' For a moment, horrified, we were frozen in our places before opening the oven, to a thunderous clap... Our son was despondent; we had to cheer him right up So we smiled our best smiles and said, "Just add a cup or four of water to the pan--- after we scrape off the plastic" ~ I thought that my wife's laugh sounded a bit spastic But our little budding chef put his heart into the task and he basted that bird, doing all we had asked So. when we finally sat down, and clasped our hands to say grace ~ You should have seen the big smile on our happy son's face October 27, 2019 Thanksgiving Memory Poetry Contest Sponsor: Regina Riddle