Turkey Day Preparations

On the calendar it's not yet Thanksgiving, but try telling that to my brain. It's already on vacation. I bet, though, it has plenty of company. I'm sure not a lot of work is getting done in offices around the country.
Thanksgiving is a great holiday, better in many ways than Christmas. Less commercial, for one. In my family, we have some funny traditions. My husband, for instance, always plays "Alice's Restaurant" for his two grown kids, no matter where they are. (One lives in New York, the other in San Diego.) When we married, he began doing the same for my kids. Now if he runs a little late on that ritual, they call us on the carpet.
A family ritual is born...