- Candy Cane Joe-Joes: oreo cookie with creme filling laced with crushed candy canes. God bless Trader Joes.
- Missing presbytery to tend my sick chickadees. (There had to be a silver lining…)
- Planning the Christmas Eve morning service. For the first time in umpteen years, we will miss the live broadcast of King’s College-Cambridge doing the Service of Lessons and Carols. So our morning service at Suburban Pres. will be… the Service of Lessons and Carols. Because it *is* all about me.I plan to mix it up a bit, with some of the lessons read by voice choir, readers theater, etc. I think I’m going to ’stage’ the story of Adam and Eve in the garden with a child reading the voice of God. (Get it? Get it? A child shall lead them! I’m a nerd.)
- Homemade turkey stock simmering all day on the stove.
- R’s ever-so-gradually diminishing cough.
- Julia Cameron’s book “The Right to Write.”
- Little she-who-is, the most sparkly-eyed sick kid evah.
- The divine miss m, who fed herself her entire dinner, save the yogurt.
What/whom do you love on 11/28?
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» I have been remiss in posting SBJ’s latest stats: 23 pounds and 27 inches at six months. Yes, I’ve got the big mama biceps.
» Aaaaaand little she-who-is lost another tooth this week!
» SBJ is four months old, 19 pounds 5 ounces, and 26 inches tall. GIGANTOR!
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I love your idea for the Genesis reading and plan to steal it!
We’re doing a Family lessons and carols, using our children as readers, so it fits right into my plan.
That will be fun! Simulcast scriptures!
I’m trying to find a kid who’s pretty young, but old enough to convey some ‘tude.
“Who told you you were naked?… DID YOU EAT THE FRUIT!?!?!?”
1. The good ideas about building a spiritual practice that I gained over the past 6 weeks in the class at my church led by such a gifted pastor
2. Relationships with family that continue despite legal proceedings that could have severed them
3. Safe travels home for all travellers after a wonderful Thanksgiving
4. The BBC
5. A sinkful of dishes, covered with lemon-fresh suds
6. A walk home on 14th Street
7. A mother who is healthy enough (and independent enough) to prepare for a forecasted ice/snow storm
8. Kitties that greet me at the door
9. Being valued at work
10. MKMLJJCM and all they hold dear
I’ve always wanted to hear the second lesson read by a deep bass voice because in Handel’s Messiah the beginning part of that lesson is the bass solo.
Like your Genesis idea. You might check out the dramatic version of Twain’s _Diaries of Adam & Eve_ as well.
You missed presbytery??? To take care of a sick baby???
Oh GOOD for YOU!!
LOVE your idea for Lessons and Carols. By the way, there is no Madrigal Dinner this year at Rice
They’re doing some special fundraiser instead. I sure hope they bring it back next year. It doesn’t seem like Advent without it!
I love madrigal dinners……
and those joe joes sound to die for.
1 - the staff and new equipment at a medical imaging center nearby. I had to go (for the second time in four years!! blah!) to have some very rude procedures performed on my right breast. Last time at another center the stereo camera and computer would not communicate so I lay in a very uncomfortable pose for a very long time while virtually nothing happened. Yesterday from sitting in the reception reading an issue of TIME magazine dated 12/05 to sitting fully dressed waiting for the report that the films were complete the elapsed time was a shade over an hour & 10 minutes. I’ll know tomorrow. No one is worried, including me, but everyone, including me, sees the wisdom of a baseline reading with an eye to needing that in the future.
But after the first experience, I was a little apprehensive. No, quite apprehensive. I didn’t want a repeat of lying there for two hours while nothing important happened.
2 - I love the idea of a kid playing God in the Genesis story! I have a couple of nominees, but I’m almost certain the travel cost would prevent them auditioning!
3 - I’m going to ask my cousin to send me some joes joes the next time she shops at Trader Joes.
4 - I’m thankful for the easy going personality of my big cat. He has begun to co-opt the preferred sleeping spot of my little cat. when I see her circling around, looking for an open space, I’ve learned that I can pick him up, a big limp relaxed meatball, move him to the couch, pick her up and put her on her favorite blanket, and he will stretch, look around and stroll off with elaborate unconcern. She will curl up, wash a paw or two, and settle down.
Neither one would dream of admitting it, but they get along pretty well.
I was really hoping for a report on Cranky Pants. Oh well.
Things I love today:
- my sister. She is the funniest person I know.
- being home sick, even though I’m sick, it’s comforting to be here close to tea, soup, frozen lime bars
- clean sheets washed with clorox (last night’s coughing fits were much easier because after bouts with “productive cough” I smelled clorox and eased back into dreamland.
Stay well yourself, ReverendNurseMother
1. Not being sick. (I’m not gloating! My turn will come; it comes every winter.)
2. The beautiful fruits and veggies I picked up from the co-op earlier today, not to mention the really cool yard eggs–eleven brown and one naturally green!
3. Knowing that the painters will finish painting the new soffit, fascia,and related trim today, before the weather turns wet and cold again.
Oh no! Until I read your post, it hadn’t occurred to me that we would miss the Service of Lessons and Carols from King’s College this year! Our church’s service of lessons and carols is led by the praise band…not the same thing at all….
A day late:
I love 5:01 p.m.
And cold weather - FINALLY HERE!
Your blog.
That kid thing with the God stuff. That’s way cool.
Being a nerd.
jle–if your sister is the funniest person *you* know, she must be really damned split-your-sides bust-a-gut funny.
Thanks for sharing your lovey things, everyone!
I’m even tireder than I realized. I thought you had actual sick chickadees.
I’m late to the party, but here you go:
1: PH, who always listens patiently while I tell him about my day at seminary
2: StrongOpinions, who always tells me about her day. It’s not always pretty, but having an 18 year old who can tell her mom the good, the bad, and the ugly is actually a good thing
3: a couple of seminary classmates whose joy and honesty about this crazy thing we are doing just amazes me and fills me with delight
4: the cats, who have more personality than a few of my OTHER seminary classmates!
5: my NT prof, whose lectures this week on Romans were positively magisterial. I could sit at his feet and listen to him lecture for hours (or at least until my knees and hiney gave out).
Glad folks are slowly getting better at your house. Glad, too, that you stayed home with the little ones when they were sick rather than making yourself crazy and getting a sitter, or something, instead of going to presbytery. Presbytery will keep on happening (for good or bad) but the chickadees grow up fast.
And I LOVE the idea of a child being the voice of God!
I love Julia Cameron’s The Artst’s Way. When you mentioned another book by her, I was ready to run to the bookstore. Then last night before bed I glanced over at my bookshelf and I saw that I actually have that book! It must be one that I bought with the intention to read when I had time (we all know how that goes!) but then forgot about before I got to it. Guess what is on my nightstand now?!
I too love the candy cane joe joe’s. I was at Trader Joe’s tonight for…oh, an hour at least. Which is funny because the store has MAYBE 6 aisles. I.Love.It. Also good: the natural mint cocoa.
I love that I have most of the day off tomorrow, and that I have 10 high school kids excited about a lock-in, and 16 kids wanting to take my confirmation class, and that I remembered something fun to put on my Amazon wishlist, and that I can reference the Life of Brian and have my boyfriend catch it, and Amy’s chili that I made tonight.
yeah.