Deep Breath and Prayer

As part of my homework, I am trying to write a little more. It's there, the thoughts and all yet I am just not doing well on getting them out of my head one way or another. It is not that I don't want to write, it is that I sit down to do so and I lose the desire. Granted, nothing in life says that I "have to" write, yet when I don't all of those thoughts just keep piling up and it gets even more busy in my head. It's like a bad chain reaction as the piling up just starts causing anxiety and stress and then we all know that does not always end the best. So, since it would seem that I can't get the my current train of thought from my head to paper, I will just go for sharing some what has been up in the past few days: Goodwill made out quite well today. I lost count after 50 VCR tapes as I was packing them up. Someone will be happy. Tess was all about the snuggles this morning Tess crawled up on the back of the chair like a cat. Hope she was comfortable, I ...

Although I don't decorate much for the holidays anymore, I do generally have the inadequate tree, a nativity, and a train. I have boxes of Christmas decorations in my shed and they have hardly been opened the 8 years I have lived in my house. Over the years, that fun loving adventure of decorating just drifted away. I think it was because the holidays became more un-enjoyable and therefore, why put out the effort. There's always a train though. I used to buy these $1 wind up trains with track and put them around the tree. I don't know what the fascination is, yet if there is nothing else out, you have to have a nativity and you have to have a train. This weekend I will go dig out my little nativity. In session last week Chris mentioned buying something that was fun. Just for the record, she seems to have cool Christmas socks like her cool Halloween socks. I agreed that I should go get me something neat. I forgot that I had already done so a few weeks ago. During a trip to W...