My gift to you

As the daughter of elementary school teachers, the niece of several elementary school teachers and sister to a future elementary school teacher, I now gift the Internet with an elementary school Thanksgiving Day song:

TURKEY DINNER (or whatever it's called, sung to the tune of 'Are you sleeping')

Turkey dinner, Turkey dinner
Gather round, gather round
Who will get the drumstick?
Yummy yummy drumstick
All sit down, all sit down

Cornbread muffins, chestnut stuffing
Pudding pie, one foot high
We were so much thinner
Before we came to dinner
Me oh my! Me oh my!

Needless to say there are hand motions as well.

I was realizing last night that these songs are never ever going to leave my brain. My sister is student teaching in a first grade classroom and this spells doom. I had almost forgotten the words to the Thanksgiving song when last night, at Figgy Pudding practice, Rebecca says, "Oh! We sang that today!" and now the Thanksgiving song AND THE HAND MOTIONS are stuck with me for another 25 years.

SPEAKING OF FIGGY PUDDING:

December 2! Downtown Seattle! In front of Sephora! 5:30 pm! Bring your checkbook!

And if you are unable to make it and have told me you are going to donate (and those of you who HAVEN'T, it's NOT TOO LATE!) I need your donations by December 2! At 5:30! If there's any way to get them to me before next Tuesday, that would be especially awesome and you will receive a Bonus Prize in your box of cookies. Maybe a printed and framed copy of the Thanksgiving Day song! Wouldn't that be fun?! Email me for details! (And those of you who haven't donated, I write terribly witty and interesting emails. It is totally worth your while! For a good cause!)

Happy Thanksgiving!

EDITED TO ADD:

transcript of conversation in Maggie's office

Co-worker 1: "I should do something with the masthead of [insert industry trade journal name here] for the holidays."

Co-worker 2: "Oh that's right. What are you going to put on there?"

Co-worker 1: "I don't know. Maybe a Santa face?"

Co-worker 2: "No, it can't be anything that's too Christian."

Co-worker 1: "Is Santa Christian? 'Satan' is an anagram of 'Santa'."

Co-worker 2: "Well, what about a bulb?"

Co-worker 1: "Like, for a tree?"

Co-worker 2: "Yeah."

Co-worker 1: "I don't know. Aren't trees German? We don't want to offend the non-Germans. You don't think Santa is okay? Don't the Jews have Santa?"

Maggie: "No, the Jews don't have SANTA. They have eight days of light!"

Co-worker 2: "Which is better. More presents."

Co-worker 1: "Well, I don't think Santa is a Christian symbol."

Maggie: "I was trying to figure out what to put on the [insert BaneOfMyExistence Organization's name here] flyer for the holiday meeting. Is a wreath offensive?"

Co-worker 2: "How can a wreath be offensive?"

Maggie: "I just ended up putting a candy cane border around it. Everybody likes candy."

Co-worker 2: "Why don't you do that, Co-worker 1? A candy cane?"

Co-worker 1: "Well, I guess a manger is out of the question."

I LOVE MY OFFICE.

Comments

[lee]

candy cane? but what about diabetics!