Friday, November 28, 2008
the thanksgiving television
Around 8:30 I was awakened by Ryan, jumping up and down with excitement and begging me to get out of bed and see his new television. The one he had been at Kmart waiting for since 4:30am. I sighed, said I'll see it in a minute and fell back asleep. Thirty minutes later Ryan was back and literally dragged me out of bed because I was missing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. His little Christmas-lover heart simply could not have that. I stumbled into the den in a sleepy stooper to behold our new, gigantic television.
The process of getting the television was fairly amusing. Ryan has been dropping hints for sometime that we really should get a new tv, to which I consistently respond, "Ryan, we have a huge television that works fine." With Black Friday just around the corner, he upped his antics. This culminated with him pulling the "But we would have so much more space if the tv hung on the wall." (Actually not true, the speakers and dvd player and whatever else you need to have a functioning tv still has to sit on a stand under the tv.) So anyways, somewhere in the midst of my not really protesting or objecting, I conceded and off he went to Kmart. (See: This) And then he gloated all morning as we ate potato chips and an apple for breakfast and watched the parade.
As I write, he is watching a James Bond movie smirking and so proud of himself for finding a good deal on his tv. Oh excuse me, our tv, as he likes to point out.
Monday, November 24, 2008
thankfulness : mom + the turkey wagon
We picked what we deemed an appropriately sized bird, put it on the check out counter, paid and put it in a garbage bag (of course). I felt like such a child, but I couldn't help but sneak around behind the shed to see the turkeys still roaming around in the land of the living. There they were in all their glory, at least until Christmas rolls around...we took bets on which one might be on our Christmas dinner table.
Ok, so maybe this is gross or disturbing, but honestly it made me feel much less freaked out than the shrink wrapped, identical blue and yellow plastic covered fowl that line grocery shelves. So here is to Barbara Kingsolver and a local turkey for Thanksgiving! And here's to my wonderful mom who always works so hard to make sure that her babies are fed healthy and delicious meals.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
thankfulness : community
Thursday, November 20, 2008
thankfulness
So this week before Thanksgiving I want to start acknowledging and celebrating the people and things that I so deeply appreciate and care about. There are so many, but here's to 7...The first being these high school girls. I've been thinking a lot lately about what a gift it is to have the chance to be involved in these girls lives. We spent this past weekend in the Outer Banks. There were incredibly honest, vulnerable conversations. There were tears, there was a great deal of laughter. There were three words repeated ad nauseam: special, awkward and random. Oh, high school girls. But I love them, regardless of their inability to use more than three adjectives. And I am so grateful for what they teach me, for their zeal for living and experiencing life. I am so often so impressed by their lives -- what they have gone through and learned, what they have experienced and processed. It is a gift to be with them, it is a gift to be together in this season of life and it is a gift to walk with them as we wrestle with who God is and what he has for us as his beloved.