when someone else removes the giblets, washes and dries, and even stuffs the turkey (with a little help from an enthusiastic six-year-old daughter) while you prepare the onions, carrots, celery, and garlic.

when someone else chops the berries and greases the pans for your three loaves of cranberry bread.

when someone else melts the butter and gets and puts away the ingredients for your pecan pie.

Thanks, honey!

(I’m just wishing I’d realized how tired I was before I put that cranberry bread in the oven at 11:45 p.m.!)