Everything was a little off this year. For example, when we brine our turkey we add oranges and lemons and I usually put a few pieces in the cavity. For the first time ever we missed a lemon quarter and an orange quarter and so they got baked with the stuffing.
The real bummer was that we got a call from the neighbor of my elderly great-aunt. She's a lifelong hoarder, in her 70s, and has memory problems. She stopped paying the bill for her landline and keeps losing cellphones. The neighbor was just concerned about her state and wanted to talk to us about her, and it was sad having to explain that we're aware of the situation and are trying to get things happening, but our hands are legally tied and there's very little we can actually do.