There is a particular dead hour on Thanksgiving. The bird is in the oven, dinner is still a way off, and everybody has to figure out what to do with themselves.
While the Bird Is In is the liveliest song on the album, and it is about exactly that. What do we do while the bird is in? In my family, we play cards, and we get loud doing it. But everybody has their version. Somebody ran a Turkey Trot 5k before the sun came up. Somebody is camped on the couch with the parade and a coffee cup. Somebody pulls out the Monopoly board and nobody wants to play, because it never ever ends and someone always walks away. Somebody heads to a matinee. Somebody is hiding in the bathroom for a minute of peace.
My favorite part of this song is the bridge, and it is true to life. The card game gets loud, the little ones are underfoot, the dog is a wreck, and the cook appears in the doorway with a spoon up in the air and tells everybody to keep it down, she is working. But she is smiling when she says it. So we lower it a notch, and then we are right back where we were.
And then the timer goes off, and every game gets left half finished the second she calls us to eat, because the games were never the point. The table was the point.
This one is meant to make you smile and maybe tap your foot. Every album needs a song with some noise in it.
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What does your family do while the bird is in? Cards, football, a nap? Tell me in the comments.
With so much love, Melanie Grace TheMelanieGrace
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