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The Fabulous Booger Boys

November 24, 2007 on 9:30 pm | In PeaceBanging Around |

The funniest thing is that the cat was really confused by these two. I don’t think she has ever encountered children before. She hid so well I couldn’t find her for the life of me, but every night when the boys were in bed she’d come creeping down the stairs, sniffing where they’d been, trying to figure it all out, bristling slightly. When the car pulled out of the driveway today I heard a strange crinkling sound in my study and walked in to find her extricating herself from behind a file box and a stack of books, carefully, stealthily, as though coming out of hiding from marauding vandals.

Well, everyone, we made it though another Thanksgiving. Tired preachers, my thoughts and prayers are winging their way to you as you tie up preparations for tomorrow morning. We have a Youth Service tomorrow at our church, and I look forward to it.

Actually, after a few days of almost purely domestic focus I am really eager to get back to the work of ministry without having residual turkey anxiety flying around in my brain. I still have a few loads of laundry to do (bed linens and towels) but most of the dishes and pots and pans, thank the good Lord, are done and put away. Most of the leftovers have been et (and some packed up to send with the boys to SisterBang, the next stop on their whirlwind holiday tour), and the cat and I are going to head to bed early.

(By the way, remember the movie “The Fabulous Baker Boys” starring Jeff and Beau Bridges? That’s the inspiration for my brother’s fond renaming of his two little dudes. Thanks to Michael Hammond for the adorable photos, taken yesterday at a playground in Holbrook, MA )