LOL, I had to laugh at your description of sneaking a slice of skin off the Turkey...in our family, my mother had to post a guard.
I came to feel that any outsider who came to Thanksgiving at our house would think we were roasting some kind of genetically engineered skinless turkey!!!!
Sigh. I do miss those days. There were times we had 30 or more people at Thanksgiving. Then it was six. Now four. Soon to be two. Then, if we are unlucky, only one.
Eh. As Betty Davis was rumored to have said, “Old age isn’t for sissies.”
But we still do it.
God BLESS you.