Your recipes sound wonderful! I'm copying them for future reference!
I've ordered a Thanksgiving dinner. I decorate a tin for Halloween, I went all out for the twins' birthday parties (2 in one weekend a couple weeks ago) and now I'm ramping up for Christmas. I hand over the reins to someone else for Thanksgiving.
I remember reading a post here years ago about how a poster was preparing dishes for several days to throw this wonderful thanksgiving meal. When someone asked her how her meal turned out she said, after days and days of planning, shopping, chopping cooking and preparing everyone sat down at the table for 20 minute to eat the meal and then got up thanked me and went to the sofa to watch football. My goal is every year not to let that happen to me!
" I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent." Mahatma Gandhi
"This is the ultimate weakness of violence: It multiplies evil and violence in the universe. It doesn't solve any problems." Martin Luther King, Jr.