Note to Self: Don't Forget Gravy Boat

As I chronicled a few years back, my mom has a great system for Thanksgiving -- every year, the day after the feast, she sits down with her legal pads and writes her post-mortem: What went wrong, what went right, what we need more of and less of next year, whether the dogs behaved, you know, the important things. Every year, she asks me for my input an…