Sisterhood of the Traveling Twilights.

I never thought it would happen. Ever.

I never thought I would give in to the hype. To the counterculture. Ever.

But I did.

I sold out.

And I'm in deep.

Of course, I'm also behind. But I'm like that with most things. It was twelve years after the Guess jeans fad before I owned a pair. And I didn't learn to text until like three weeks ago. So when something new and exciting and cool comes along, you can bet I will be on board. Only it will be the wrong board and it will be about three boards too late.

But, I'll get on there eventually. Oh yes, I will.

Which is why today, almost two years after the stinkin' book even came out, I am on the Twilight bandwagon. I walked by that book for two years in Barnes and Noble. I snickered at the ladies in line buying it. I asked God to help them, to heal their soul, their broken places.

I now own a copy.

Deliver me, Lord.

But within my obsession I have found a few friends, a sisterhood if you will, of fellow Twilighters. Thus the title of today's post. Which comes courtesy, of all people, Bubba / Brandon, who finds it fascinating that Meridith and I worry over who the book will go to next and so now refers to us as the Sisterhood of the Traveling Twilights. I'll take that, though. I deserve that.

And here's how it goes down:

Friday night Jessica told me that she was reading it and asked me if the thought of us reading it meant that the church would ask us to leave or never ever teach a Sunday school class again. I told her, "yes." Then I asked Jessica if she'd seen the movie, which she hasn't so that means I will be kidnapping her to whisk her away to see it - and also my friend Teresa, who came over to babysit my kids one night and saw the book on my nightstand, picked it up, started reading it and three days later was halfway into the second volume. She went to Barnes and Noble to buy her copy even though her daughter Coco screamed in embarrassment that her mom was reading the very same book that Coco and all her friends were reading and begged her mom to please read something more her own age. I, personally, would have let Teresa borrow my second volume but I didn't have one yet as Meridith has promised to loan me hers but she ended up letting her mom read it - and well, her mom got totally addicted to it and then took it home to finish reading it. So the AG went and bought me the second one but then I had to finish it fast because he said I hadn't taken that many baths since we'd been married. So once I finished it I was like, "Sheesh, I need the third one now." But he said we were in a recession. So thankfully Sonja brought it to me, but she only had it because Alyce had lent her hers. Sonja is in deep as well, but she's seen the movie - with Colleen. So now I have the third one which is good because Meridith doesn't and she is need of it, too. But strangely enough her mom has the third one because her dad went out and bought it for her and Meridith said, "Well, I could just borrow mom's when I get home for Christmas, but she might not want me to bring it all the way back to Tennessee." To which Bubba / Brandon replied, "Good Lord, y'all sound like the sisterhood of the traveling Twilights. Just mail the dern thing back and forth to each other. It can be done - I know! I work for UPS."

Whoo. Did you get all that?

And now you see why it's a Sisterhood.

Would you like to be in the sisterhood? It requires very little...
1. Just the ability to read.
2. To completely believe in the existence of werewolves.
3. And the sense to not be offended when your local church asks you to take your membership to the Methodist church down the road.

Which is something that could happen just any day now.