When Helen Hayes cooked her first turkey for Thanksgiving, she called her husband and son together and said, "Now I know this is the first turkey I've ever cooked. It if isn't right, I don't want anybody to say a word. We'll just get up from the table without comment, put on our hats and coats, and go down to the hotel for Thanksgiving dinner." She then went into the kitchen to get the turkey. When she returned to the table, her husband and her son were standing there with their hats, gloves, and coats already on.

One way we can help make this a very special Thanksgiving is to give Mom a break. Moms and turkeys have the most difficult time during the Thanksgiving season.

In the fall of 1621, when the Pilgrims under William Bradford celebrated the first Thanksgiving four men went "fowling…