The Pea | Posted by Jannie on 17 April 2009 @ 11:35 PM
photo: Nov. ’07
Our little roost ruler comes out with the most beautiful blessings at the dinner table, usually something like, “Lord, thanks for my loving parents — I wouldn’t trade them for the world. Thanks for my great school and this wonderful food. I hope the good people will stay good and the bad people will get good — and I hope it is soon.”
When she was 5 she thanked God for “the wedding” so she could be born.
And below, one particularly sweet blessing of late…
“Dear God, thank you for our food and our house and for everything we enjoy, except for the things that are just a big pain in the ass. Amen.”
Jannie believes in a great big wonderful God of love. Do you? Who is God to you? Do you pray? Do you say grace?
I pulled the original post of this about a minute after hitting publish, when a sudden paranoia struck that I’d get comments like “shut up about God already and go fling your bra,” the timing directly on the heels of my condom heart “Grannie” episode, which was a mini trauma for sensitive little me.
But I’m so over it!
A couple of you friends whose blog posts I always look forward to, Chris of Csquaredplus3 and Dot of Deeper Issues had seen the original post via their readers and were lovely enough to comment about it on the next post I’d published. Thanks for that, you two! (Not that the rest of you suck, or anything.) 🙂 It was only because of those two commenting, that I actually came to understand how feeds work. Oy. Once you hit publish, your stuff, like, goes into RSS feeds of subscribers. To read. Like, everywhere. On the Internet. Wow.
This Internet thing is so cool and should really start catching on any day now.
Oh, I’m probably going camping in the morning so will see you in a couple days!
xo
The Pea | Posted by Jannie on 18 December 2008 @ 8:38 AM
(photos look even gooder when enlarged.)
Okay, Mama Zen’s up to her tricks again and you’re ALL tagged, the whole darn bunch of ya, starting with Shay Fireblossom who’s gonna get a complimentary plate of fudge for participating. So here I go.
Five Things I Love About Christmas
1. The Trail of Lights here in Austin, TX, USA
2. Not having to shave the legs to attend said Trail of Lights.
3. The scent of bayberry, still searching for the exact smell of that candle Mom had when I was a young ‘un. Some say L. Cohen has one. But he’s not so good at returning calls or e-mails.
4. Shiny gold wrapping paper.
5. Christmas Eve church service, the hush and the joy. (I always cry a bit in church.)
6. SIX!?!? (But eet ees meme sacreliege, non, to add annuder?) (Please repeat previous sentence aloud in the accent of Chef in Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” or Jannie might have a Blue, Blue Christmas, without you.)
(Please note: No non-Christmas celebraters were meant to be harmed during the creation of this post.) (Jannie’s a Shiksa, remember?)
The Pea | Posted by Jannie on 5 December 2008 @ 10:10 AM
Me: Do I hear Sponge Bob down there again? What did I tell you this afternoon about watching more t.v.?
She: But this is a full movie of him, Mom, one I never saw before and I really really really want to watch it. Pleeeeease??
Me: Hmnnn… But your dad might want to watch t.v. tonight.
She: No! He already said its okay.
Me: But what about your brain? What’s Going To Happen To YOUR BRAIN from watching more t.v.?
She: One plus one is two! Two plus two is four! Three plus three is six!
Me: Okay, what’s… seventeen plus five?
She: (after two seconds) Twenty-two!
Me: Yeah. But how did you arrive at that number?
She: Well, I already know seven plus five is twelve so ten more is obviously twenty-two, Mom.
Me: Okay, go watch.
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Wondering: If you have kids, what’s your t.v. policy for them? And if you don’t have kids, what’s your t.v. policy for you?
P.S. I’m as big a Sponge Bob fan as anyone and someday I might even put up an MP3 here of me doing Patrick’s voice. (Or not, and say I did.) Uncannily similar on occasion, that starfish’s voice and mine.
Oh, and guys, speaking of MP3s, I just put up 5 more song snippets on my “Songs I Wrote” page! (I’m so totally getting my sheets together. Kind of. Baby step by baby step.)
