The Friday after Thanksgiving

(this was actually written on Friday, Nov. 27, even though it didn't get posted until today, Mon, Nov. 30. I wasn't on my comp much over the long weekend, thankfully!)

Yesterday was Thanksgiving and today I am doing Spring cleaning. Only in the southern hemisphere. The weather is down to a pleasant 79 degrees, after being quite hot yesterday. Thankfully the humidity is also down to bearable. It can’t quite decide if its going to rain today.

Its strange doing Spring cleaning in my parent’s house without my mom around. So many things I’d like to ask her, remember with her, tell her. Oh well… sometime. Thank God for e-mails.

So far, I haven’t found much in the “give away” or “throw away” categories. This must be due to the impressive amount of organizing my mom did before leaving (again) for the US a couple of years ago. I have found a LOT in “oh, fun, wonderful memories! I can’t believe she kept that but I’m so glad she did” category. Thanks, Mom J. Once again there are kids in our house a lot (i.e. the five munchkins descended from Geogea) so its fun figuring out how many toys we still have around and making them available to the five, each according to their age and capabilities. Most of what we have is in very good shape, despite sitting in closets for 10 or 15 years. I’m getting old. Childhood is getting further away, but I’m having fun re-living it with these new friends and companions.

The “getting old” sense was aggravated yesterday when at my Thanksgiving feast yesterday I saw that a friend I remembered as a 2^nd grader is now a Senior in highschool (for those familiar with the PACA – Pan American Christian Academy – community, I’m referring to Tommy Long. Along with the Longs, other celebrants were the Carpenters, Val Gill and friends, the Davises and the Lamps, who hosted it). I must say we did ourselves proud with Thanksgiving dinner (eaten around 6 PM) and pie (four different kinds – mincemeat, pecan, pumpkin and chocolate-banana – eaten as soon after dinner as our stomachs could handle). I’m not sure how much meat was left over, but I plan to head back up to the Lamp’s house tomorrow to find out (they are away at the beach for today). Maybe I can scrounge some. Lol. Well see.

Well, among other fun things, I found Val and my blankies from our childhoods, Karis’ huge “Karis hug me” doll, various folders of memorabilia of Dan’s, a huge binder of notes my Dad was once taking, possibly for a book, on the topic of healthy male and female sexuality, and a variety of Christmas decorations. The latter will come in very handy as my Brazilian church small group is getting together for a Christmas party tomorrow night and they needed decorations. Lol – I’m going to have another HUGE feast two days after Thanksgiving. Maybe I won’t eat today at all. Lol. Oh, I also found a HUGE garbage bag full of lego pieces as well as a pile of dismounted boxes and instructions for different lego vehicles, scenes and structures! Hurray!

Well, enough babbling for now. Although I missed my family yesterday with an internal ache, I hope that your holiday season is as pleasant and joyful as mine is turning out to be. And I’ll be with the five other Dave Kornfields in just 22 days!