Jan from RevGalBlogPals introduces our Friday Five with some poetry:
Lying around all day
with some strange new deep blue
weekend funk, I’m not really asleep
when my sister calls
to say she’s just hung up
from talking with Aunt Bertha
who is 89 and ill but managing
to take care of Uncle Frank
who is completely bed ridden.
Aunt Bert says
it’s snowing there in Arkansas,
on Catfish Lane, and she hasn’t been
able to walk out to their mailbox.
She’s been suffering
from a bad case of the mulleygrubs.
The cure for the mulleygrubs,
she tells my sister,
is to get up and bake a cake.
If that doesn’t do it, put on a red dress.
–Ginger Andrews (from Hurricane Sisters)
So this Friday before Thanksgiving, think about Aunt Bert and how she’ll celebrate Thanksgiving! And how about YOU?
1. What is your cure for the “mulleygrubs”?
A chat and a coffee or meal with good friends, or a good book and a comfy couch… with chocolate.
2. Where will you be for Thanksgiving?
That’s still up in the air. Will be here on the home front, but I will either fix dinner and serve it at my mother-in-law’s apartment, or have it here at home without her. It depends on if she is feeling up to traveling via wheelchair across the campus to her old digs.
3. What foods will be served? Which are traditional for your family?
Because of the nature of our life and our family news, I opted to get a pre-made dinner from Whole Foods. A turkey dinner with all of the trimmings. Cost a truckload of money, but it was the only option that made sense.
4. How do you feel about Thanksgiving as a holiday?
I think it is important to stop and be thankful. And watch football. LOTS of football!
5. In this season of Thanksgiving, what are you grateful for?
My wonderful husband, Bearded Brewer. Our amazing girls, The Johnnie and Reedy Girl. Family, scattered between Oregon, Ohio and North Carolina. Friends, around the world and here in the DC area. Fellow students and professors at Whoopin Divinity who challenge me and remind me to keep expecting God to show up. Cats. Chocolate and coffee (sometimes together). Health. A safe and healthy place to live. The right to worship freely. A computer and teh intewebs so that I can keep in touch with cyber-family. RevGals!! Teh Clooney because he’s just so hawttt! Apples. My “wicked good” slippers. Our waterbed. And laughter. God is good.
I might post on Aunt Bert’s Thanksgiving later… right now I have to grab a shower and start back to work on my paper…
Deb
P.S. Anyone else remember the old Keith Green song?
I will give thanks to the Lord
With all my heart
I will tell of all Thy wonders
I will be glad and exult in Thee
I will trust in you my God
Who delivered me
And lifted me from the gates of death
I will be glad and exult in Thee
I will give thanks to the Lord
With all my heart
I will tell of all Thy wonders
I will be glad and exult in Thee
I will tell of all Thy wonders
I will be glad and exult in Thee
An Unfinished Symphony 