thanksgiving planning

sometimes i have some ideas- but maybe end up losing steam before i launch them into being.. but from now until the turkey holiday i'm gonna be moving on my latest idea:

started this past stay for jenner in l'hospital. for some reason, the wing that she is usually in was full. so she stayed in the bone marrow transplant wing. and i just so happened to take a bunch of soup up there that week. while i was in the communal kitchen of that wing, using the microwaver, i met a few really nice ladies who were eating cheerios and seemed pretty friendly with eachother. as cheerios is NOT my idea of dinner, i wanted to know if they were snacking/craving cheerios/eating their version of dinner. so we chatted a bit. i gave them some pumpkin bread. and it became pretty obvious that cheerios was dinner. ugh.

i can't even go into their stories about their children who are sick. it is too much and i start crying and can't see the screen for blogging. with more chatting, i re-realized that lots of the folks that have babies and kids going through something at children's are often not from cincinnati. we live right down the street, i think it takes about 3 minutes to get there. i can usually keep food hot from here to there. i go home at night and mostly, jenna gets to be at home. so many folks are living out of the hospital so that they can be with their kid! and they are from far away and nothing about it is their life. so heartbreaking.

i'm gonna try to get a nice big thanksgiving dinner up there for whoever in that place needs some comfort. details to come.