As the upcoming holiday weekend approaches, one Midwestern family’s plan for their Christmas gathering is garnering a lot of attention.

TODAY’s Joseph Lamour reports that on Dec. 12, writer Khalid El Khatib shared a tweet that has since gone viral.

“In it, he shares an email his mother sent him regarding his upcoming visit to the family home in Dubuque, Iowa for Christmas week, and boy, oh, boy is it organized,” Lamour writes.

“My mom’s annual ‘home for the holidays’ email to me and my siblings just dropped,” El Khatib wrote in his tweet, which included a screenshot of his mother Janet’s email. “An incredibly thorough, detail-rich look ahead at how it’s possible for me to gain 15 lbs. in one week.”

Looking at the email, Lamour writes, you can see what El Khatib means. “Each day’s food is meticulously planned and hunger-inducing, from arrival snack plans of ‘puffed popcorn, Chex mix, and various candies available for grazing throughout the day’ to Ina Garten’s mac and cheese,” Lamour explains.

Adding to the itinerary, Janet El Khatib plans for “Culver’s ice cream, manicures and lunch at a winery followed by a taco night with ‘chicken and beef hard and soft shell with taco dip, quac, chips and salsa and margaritas.”

The email generated such a buzz on social media that TODAY interviewed the entire El Khatib family live on their Tuesday show.

>> Read more about the El Khatib family’s holiday itinerary here.

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