Book Club Rooky

Learning that I have all this free time on my hands, the 'mature' ladies in my choir invited me to join them for their book club meeting. Now, I've never been to a book club and had this idea in my head that I had to read the book and take notes so I'd be prepared to answer questions if called upon in the group. So, I read the book with intent and hit the website; printed out the book club questions and studied them, thinking that this is what everyone else would do . . .

We met this afternoon at charming Meg Watson's home, we ate our bag lunches and Meg passed around some veggies and these uber wonderful chips served on her best china! She made tea and even kept it warm under tea cozzies (I gotta get me some of those!). Once we were done Meg asked if I would be the moderator - yikes! But it went quite well. The group is quite diverse and each had a comment to add to the conversation; keeping them on track was a bit of a challenge but I was able to get through all the recommended questions in the time that they usually alot for the group. Guess I did OK as they invited me back again :-)

The book we read was 'The Last Lecture' about this young man who learned his cancer was incurable and that he only had a couple of months to live so he prepared the legacy he wanted to leave for his wife and children in the form of a lecture. Yes, I cried through a good part of the book -- what type of a legacy would I leave to Gregg, the girls and kids? I hope that I don't have to think about that for a long, long, long time but in case God should come to call me sooner than expected I would want to leave them knowing how much I loved them and how each of them holds a small slice of me in their hearts that will live on forever. Each of them have done things in their lives that I have been fortunate enough to live vicariously through; what a blessing my family has been to me! (OK Christie, you can stop crying now)