Friday Feast No. 119

Appetizer
Have you ever changed a flat tire by yourself?

    Yes, once. It’s a hazy memory. It was sometime during high school, which was more than 10 years ago now, and all I remember is that it was hard to get the bolt thingies off. (Yeah, that’s the technical term.)

Soup
Do you have an “innie” or an “outie” belly button?

    Innie.

Salad
Name a new paint color and describe it.

    I can’t do that. That side of my brain is still in bed.

Main Course
What is your favorite holiday tradition?

    I started a new holiday tradition last year that means a lot to me. Last year was Poppy’s first Christmas, and I went out by myself one day to find a special ornament just for her. I’d like to find an ornament display tree to put up each year with her ornaments, but they’re not going to go on the big tree until she has a home and a tree of her very own.

Dessert
If you were a cookie, what kind would you be, and why?

    I asked Rockford to answer this one. Here’s what he said: “If you were a cookie, I’d say you would be a sugar cookie. Because you like to be unassuming and you prefer not to stand out and you want to just kind of remain present but not the focal point.” He did not add that I am sweet. Hm.

The Friday Feast is a weekly meme intended to “feed your mind by asking thought-provoking, mind-stimulating questions.”

Count your many blessings


Daddy and Girl
Originally uploaded by nichole_e.

I’m thankful for so many things this year. Among them:

  • my happy, healthy, silly little girl.
  • Rockford, my best friend.
  • my parents, without whom I wouldn’t be here, being who I am and doing what I’m doing.
  • that God gave us the courage to leave Holland.
  • that we had a place to which we could return.
  • my bright and talented little brothers.
  • my niece and nephews and their unrestrained hugs.
  • my parents-in-law, with whom I actually enjoy spending the holidays. (I know! Who gets along with their in-laws? I got lucky, I guess.)
  • my funny, quirky and altogether lovely sisters-in-law.
  • my equally funny and quirky brother-in-law. I will not call him “lovely” because I don’t think he would appreciate it.
  • my friends, who I miss mightly but cherish nonetheless.
  • the Internet, for making it possible to stay in contact with my far-flung friends and family.

    This sounds like an award-acceptance speech, doesn’t it? Oh well. I’m going to go make some stuffing or something.

    Happy Thanksgiving!!