Avieshidy

 "A-vy-sha-die" I was too young to know how to spell it, but I used to think this was a real word, because my mother taught it to me.  Way back in rented housing, before lights or heat or much of anything at all.  She would tuck us in at night, and listen to the three of us, one after the other, as  we repeated the words of the prayers she had taught us. 
    Simple prayers at first, for sure, and I was happy to feel I'd gotten it right.  "Now I lay me down to sleep" is much more comforting if you don't have to consider the fact you may die that night instead of  waking up next morning. 
    It's early Thanksgiving morning and I'm going back to bed, and hopefully to sleep.  But, "Avishedye before I wake,"  know that the turkey has been in the oven since 5:25 this morning, and will probably be done about 5 hours from then.