What can be made in the next few weeks and frozen for thanksgiving?

Lara, my heart goes out to you. I've been there!
Here's a thought - a tip that doesn't get much play, but an excellent idea -- from an article posted a few years ago by a Food52 user (not an editor or food blogger contributor).
While you are thinking about what to freeze for Thanksgiving Day, also think about, plan and follow through on what you can freeze to serve your family for dinner during the 7 - 10 days before Thanksgiving. There are so many Thanksgiving tasks that can only be handled during that final week. It's quite helpful if you can free up the time you'd otherwise be spending in the evening cooking dinner, to do that advance prep during Thanksgiving week.
So, the idea is to make double batches of what you will be serving in the next couple of weeks and freeze as much as you can for those Thanksgiving week dinners. It's fall, so soups and stews are perfect for this.
Write out your menu for those 7 days. Combine holiday prep with week-before dinner prep, e.g., if you are making pie crust, make an extra and bake a quiche for dinner one evening when you'll have the oven on for pre-Thanksgiving prep.
Here is the article: https://food52.com/blog/8826-how-to-hike-a-mountain-and-serve-thanksgiving-dinner-on-the-same-day There are a lot of other suggestions you may find helpful. The author developed the method over many years while raising two sons, with no help, and working full time.

Reading about Thanksgiving food, I can't wait for the day! I love this meal! I think the stuffing is my favorite part. I use dried, cubed, bread, celery, onions, butter, sage, thyme and S/P. Very traditional recipe from 1973 Betty Crocker cookbook, and a family favorite.

Chops, I love Ina's gravy. It hits all the right notes and it takes extra ingredients well, like a bit of apple cider or a fortified wine. Ina's Make Ahead book is a great guideline for preparing dishes in advance. I love it.

milled applesauce, pie crusts, NY Times gougeres for apps, IPK's mushroom pinwheels, Ina Garten's make ahead gravy. I make batches of Mrs. Wheelbarrow's raspberry and cranberry conserve as well, but they are processed in a water bath.

Along those lines, Alton Brown has a spatchcocked turkey recipe/process which is wonderful. He starts well in advance of the big day & the spatchcock method roasts much more quickly and evenly.

This isn't strictly on the freezing issue BUT if anyone has time/space/help restrictions and isn't committed to a whole-bird's dramatic entrance, I buy fresh turkey and have the butcher cut it up. It's a breeze to do stock for gravy, and a breeze to season and roast every piece. Flavour is superior, too. I'll never return to whole-bird roasting. Just a thought for people to consider. :-)

Thomas Keller's leek bread pudding (you can find the recipe in a lot of places, including on this site: https://food52.com/recipes/39035-thomas-keller-s-leek-bread-pudding#comments) is delicious, and although I've never frozen it, I freeze other bread puddings all the time. The recipe calls for you to bake it for 1.5 hours. If you wanted to freeze it, I'd suggest adding just a little extra liquid and then baking it for 1 hour before freezing it. I tend to thaw my bread puddings in the fridge before re-heating them, but you could probably just bake from frozen (although it would need to bake for a while). If baking from frozen, I'd cover the dish in foil until the last 15 minutes of baking in order to avoid over-browning.

I'd make the pie dough and freeze it, not the pies. Not crazy about frozen pies and it is so easy and quick to roll out the pre-made dough and add the filling. Never really have made anything else in advance. Just 4 of us. I would think it depends on how many guests and what is on your menu. The suggestions listed are great. Happy Turkey Day, and Happy Cooking! BB

Make mashed potatoes ahead (not frozen) and use a slow cooker on low when you are ready to rewarm them. It frees up stove top space.

Pies. And the vegetarian mushroom gravy on this site, http://food52.com/recipes/7483-vegetarian-mushroom-thyme-gravy --just add the cream when heating to serve. Most kinds of casseroles--corn pudding, broccoli or green bean casserole, sweet potato or squash casseroles. You can even freeze mashed potatoes but it should be a recipe with a lot of cream, cream cheese, and butter; the richness of the dairy helps maintain the nice texture.

Hi Lara! We actually have an article coming up next week about this very topic (so stay tuned!). However I do agree with other commenters! You can freeze rolls, cranberry sauce, pies, and soup with a lot of success. I often make a big batch of pie crust going into the holidays and freeze it, just so it's there when I need it.

To add to this list, I always buy turkey wings and make a stock. Then I thaw it a few days before and make an uber stock with the neck and wing tips (if you're okay with the tips not being there when you present the bird).

I make cornbread stuffing so I always make that and freeze it.

Pies and cakes, Breads and rolls, dressing, some vegetable dishes can be made ahead and frozen. Cranberry sauce.

I was thinking about having myself cryonically froze u til after it's over.

One thing my mom does is sautee all vegetables in advance a few days before. For example, the onions and celery you add to stuffing. Boil the noodles for the mac & cheese. Make the salad dressing, clean the lettuce.

All day-of should be is assemble and bake. Hope this helps! good luck!

Breads such as rolls, cakes, even pies freeze well.