Since moving to California, our holidays back east alternate between Thanksgiving and Christmas. This year, turkey day was spent in good ole Cali, far from the arms of our loved ones (and my Nanny's traditional stuffing). It's not always easy being "alone" on holidays; but that was the beauty of this year. We weren't. We've come a long way from that very first Thanksgiving here, where only three months after settling in, we spent the day fighting back tears at a distant (but