Everyone just stood and stared at Rachel. Ross and Chandler had a look of fear on their face. "Honey you don't have anything to prove." Monica said , hoping that Rachel wouldn't continue.

"I am getting sick of being reminded of that terrible Thanksgiving . My own child won't eat anything I make. I have had to watch Monica make dinner for all these holidays . I want people to say , boy Rachel's dessert was the best part of this Thanksgiving. People will remember this Thanksgiving as the one with Rachel's trifle."

Everyone then looked at Rachel and Ross went over and put his arm around her and kissed her on the cheek. "Then we'll go get the cookbook, make sure the pages aren't together and we'll make that trifle." Rachel smiled. "You bet we will Rachel." Said Ben.

"Well it looks like Thanksgiving is going to go on as planned after all." Smiled Chandler.

"Yeah Mr. I hate Thanksgiving." Said Monica.

Erica and Jack were curious. "Dad why do you hate Thanksgving? It sounds like you have a lot of great memories of that day."

"Well I was going to wait until Joey got here, because I haven't told it since you were babies. The main reason is that everyone got tired of hearing it. It used to be a regular part of Thanksgiving."

"Why don't you tell them about the best Thanksgiving ever instead?" said Monica.

Chandler started." Well your cousin Emma was one and your mother and I had been trying to have a baby. The doctor had told us that we wouldn't be able to have one the normal way, so we were in the process of trying to adopt.

Monica was making the dinner like she always did and that was the first year I made my world famous chanberries. Uncle Joey and Uncle Ross decided to go to a hockey game and then Aunt Phoebe and Aunt

Rachel entered Emma in a baby beauty contest."

"Mom why did you do that?" declared Emma. "Did you know about this?" she asked her father.

"You won first prize." Rachel said.

"And then everyone was late. Your mother was so angry that she locked everyone out of the apartment." Chandler continued.

"Yeah we couldn't get in the door. All we could get in it was just our heads." Said Phoebe.

"Then Uncle Joey got his head stuck in the door and we had to get him lose with gravy. It would have left a mess, but Uncle Joey licked it up."said Ross.

"But do you know what was the best part was ?" said Monica

"What mom?" asked Jack.

"That was the day that we found out we were getting a baby. And we got the biggest surprise of our lives when instead of one baby, we got two." she smiled.

"Somehow that sounds like Uncle Joey." Said Jack.

"Hey I learned a lot about women from Uncle Joey." Defended Ben.

"Who do you think I learned the most from?"

"Your mother." Said Jack.

"He's your kid Bing. Jack , I am sure that Ben learned a lot from his father . said Ross.

"Yeah he learned not to marry a lesbian, say the right name , and then that condoms are ninety seven per cent effective. " Chandler chimed in.

Monica got on her crutches and hobbled to the kitchen. She smiled when she realized all the love that was around her. She may not have been able to make dinner, but her friends, her children, and her family were all working together to make this a great thanksgiving. She would show her mother.

Phoebe was busily mashing the potatoes, Mike was peeling the yams, Erica was grating the cheese for her father's macaroni and cheese. Sandy was cleaning the turkey and removing the insides as well as putting together a tofu turkey for Phoebe. Rachel was slicing the bananas, Ross was stirring the custard to make sure it wouldn't over boil, and Ben was rolling the crust out for the pies.

"So all my little elves are making dinner." Monica smiled.

"I told you everything would work out." Said Chandler as he kissed Monica.

"Hey everybody How you doin?" said a voice from the hallway.

Joey tells the kids about Chandler being unfaithful and Monica tells Emma about her father's last days at the museum.