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Personal blog of christian writer Katy McKenna Raymond in Kansas City, Missouri

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Katy McKenna Raymond
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My daughter Carrie has been home for Thanksgiving break for all of an hour. After raiding the pantry and fridge (just to see some real food, she says) and shooting the bull with her dad and me, she retires to the piano. I can tell she misses it when she's gone. She plays and sings her way through her repertoire of ballads, sounding so beautiful I'm crying in the next room. There's one I'm yearning to hear called "I Need You At the Dimming of the Day," but I can't think of the name of it, or the tune. "Carrie," I call to her, "play that one I like..." "Which one?" "You know--the one..." "Oh, that one?" "Yeah, the one that chick sings--" "Oh, you mean--" "That's it." So she starts playing again, and singing--"just for you, Mom"--and I marvel at the gift God's given me, my grown-up little girl, only one thin wall away. I join her then, and the thanksgiving season begins.
Posted by Katy on 11/25/02 at 02:56 PM
Fallible Comments...
  1. *sniffle*<br><br>_that_ is by far the hardest part about being *here* now: no thanksgiving season with my fambly. <br><br>but christmas is a month from today.<br>
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    Posted by annie  on  12/31/69  at  12:00 PM
  2. Annie, girl! My Scotty was in Florence two years ago at Thanksgiving. Our first separation at holiday! He had me email him an recipe for stuffing, so he could make it for the other students. Only he had no cooking facilities. One girl said his stuffing was so good (she obviously missed her mum!) she felt compelled to propose to him. Alas, when she got home to her mom's cooking, the memory of his faded. You will be home soon, and what a celebration it will be!
    Posted by Katy  on  12/31/69  at  12:00 PM
  3. You and your daughter are both fortunate to have such a close relationship... something to be very thankful for, indeed.
    Posted by Maria  on  12/31/69  at  12:00 PM
  4. Maria--Oh, we have our moments...it's just that most of them are good. Thanks!
    Posted by Katy  on  12/31/69  at  12:00 PM
  5. poor sco. maybe if he keeps working on perfecting the stuffing, the florencian will realize her mistake.
    Posted by bethany  on  12/31/69  at  12:00 PM
  6. Bethany, "The Florencian" was a fellow KU student spending semester in France/Italy, though Scott did not know her before that semester (or any of the other students, I'm thinking.) Her proposal may have been influenced by heavy imbibing, I'm not sure. Maybe it was kind of like "The Bachelor." People thrown together in a different world...she really, REALLY loved his dressing, but then the season ended...
    Posted by Katy  on  12/31/69  at  12:00 PM
  7. maddeningly, madly. i am trying to 'hurredly' type as i get ready to rush out the door, in fact :)
    Posted by lisa  on  12/31/69  at  12:00 PM
  8. my little girl still is a little girl, bursting with life, love, curiosity, and big wet kisses at the age of two. i'm wishing she could stay this age forever...has science neared a method for freezing humans that features the subject being able to walk, talk, maddeningly climb up you as you try to madly type, and generally remain cuter than pie? then again, in other ways i can't wait to see who she'll grow up to be...ah, apron strings and violins...
    Posted by lisa  on  12/31/69  at  12:00 PM
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