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Michaelene McElroy Blog Tour! (Incl. Giveaway!)

In The Last Supper Catering Company, there is a scene with B. Thankful and Little G, her grandma, who is near to calling an eternal time out.   B. Thankful has just returned home after spending the day with the spirit of Big G (her great grandma who died seven years prior, but who has come back to help B. Thankful prepare a last supper for a loved one). It was getting late by the time I got home from my day with Big G, and I found Daddy and Little G in full slumber exactly where I had left them. After I fixed them a simple supper of collard greens and cornbread, which they mostly just poked at, I tucked them into their beds and, as if they were my own children, told each a special story I made up just for them.  When I was certain they were asleep, I went about my business in the kitchen with Big G.  We had no more than started when Little G called out, “Who are you talking to?” Big G gave me the hush signal, as if I might tell Little G her dead momma w...