Gratitude 17: Thanksgiving Eve

I love Thanksgiving Eve!  Tonight I:

• Made my first ever lemon meringue pie.  I had never a - separated an egg; b - whipped egg whites; c - shredded a lemon peel.  Wow, I'm pretty lame to have never done those things probably.  I even had to borrow a grater for the lemon peel.
• Made two pie crusts.  The first one I didn't like; it tasted weird and I thought it was because I used salted butter. I went back to the store and got the kind of butter I used a few weeks ago for my first pie crust. The second turned out a lot better in almost every way.  I'm learning pie crusts are tricky!
• Made two batches of Thanksgiving crescent rolls. It wouldn't be Thanksgiving Eve if I didn't smell scalded milk sweetened with butter and sugar.
• Forgot to add salt to one of the batches of rolls. Oops.  Not sure what effect this will have on the rolls, sigh.
• Listened to the awesome Christmas tunes Amy gave me a few years ago.  Nothing like Rob Thomas singing Merry New York Christmas to get me in the Thanksgiving mood.
• Spent an hour cleaning the kitchen. 
• Cooked my sweet potatoes for tomorrow. My mouth is watering thinking about those brown-sugared puppies tomorrow.  Mmm.  I never ever imagined I would like sweet potatoes as much as I do. 

What traditions do you have for Thanksgiving Eve?  Did you try anything new this year?