Thanksgiving is four weeks from tomorrow!  That means it's time to plan. You don't want to spend the week of Thanksgiving having panic attacks. NO ONE is thankful for panic attacks and all-nighters.

• Keep clearing space in the fridge and freezer and de-cluttering your house. 
• Iron your tablecloth and napkins. You can store the ironed tablecloth on an old gift wrap roll. Works like a charm. (Yes, if you own a tablecloth and cloth napkins, you use them on Thanksgiving. If you don't have them, put them on your Christmas list.)
• Find your china and silver. Polish the silverware if needed. (If you don't have china and silver, that's fine. Use what you have. But I hate the idea of having beautiful things that you never use. What, precisely, are you waiting for? — As a note, the Queen is limiting her travel. She's not coming to dinner.)
• If you are hosting, get those invites out. If you know who is coming, do your seating chart so that's out of the way.
• Build your schedule of tasks to be ready. Put down EVERYTHING, from grocery shopping to setting the table to baking the pies to mixing the stuffing to packaging the leftovers to making turkey noodle soup with the turkey broth you make. The list will seem intimidating, but once you start to schedule things (doing everything as early as possible), it will become more manageable.