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As soon as\u00a0Halloween is over,\u00a0I\u00a0look\u00a0forward to Thanksgiving.\u00a0It’s my favorite holiday.\u00a0No shopping.\u00a0 No wrapping.\u00a0 No costumes.\u00a0 Good mood. Good food.\u00a0Great leftovers.\u00a0\u00a0We eat early and eat too much, then return to eat again.\u00a0There’ll be a neighborhood stroll between snacks, but there will<\/em> be more eating.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We’ll have\u00a0delicious late-in-the-day\u00a0sandwiches.\u00a0 <\/span>We\u00a0bring in special rolls (some\u00a0of us love sourdough, others\u00a0prefer wheat.)\u00a0There’s nothing exotic about our Thanksgiving planned-over\u00a0sandwiches, but\u00a0there’s\u00a0no other sandwich all year that tastes this good.\u00a0Frank Bruni writes about his family’s\u00a0similar\u00a0sandwich tradition in Real Simple Magazine<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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By dessert time,\u00a0music starts.\u00a0Christmas\u00a0begins with Thanksgiving pie.\u00a0Some years Johnny Mathis kicks off the season.\u00a0 Sometimes it’s Burl Ives, or Vince Guaraldi’s Charlie Brown soundtrack.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I’m\u00a0already humming\u00a0a\u00a0chorus of “Count Your Blessings.” Some years there’s a need to start the humming earlier, a reminder to myself that no matter what else happened during the year, there are still reasons to be grateful.<\/span><\/p>\n

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