Helpers
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? -George Elliot There’s a quote for every week in my planner. To be honest, most weeks I don’t even read them- they’re in tiny, light colored letters and my eyes just skip over the whole thing. This was the quote for last week though, and it made me think of the ways people have made my life easier recently. First there was the big house cleanup last Sunday. While I was gone all day, my son went to my husband and said “Mom needs help.” Yes, I needed help so badly, but I hadn’t asked for it- but they saw it and cleaned the entire house in my absence. Then, on the evening of the 22nd, my daughter had a group of friends over. One of the girls asked if I had any presents that still needed wrapping. Well…. yes I did have a few! She offered to wrap them for me, and this is how they came out: The only problem was, next to these the other presents looked like absolute crap, ha ha. While my daughter was opening her gifts (which admittedly were shabbily wrapped) she said “I think Santa’s elves were underpaid this year.” Yes they were! Overworked and underpaid. I’m seriously thinking of paying my daughter’s friend to wrap all our gifts next year. Next up- we got this card from our vet: The entire staff wrote little message of condolence inside. Yes, I cried, and yes, it now sits on our “Charlotte shelf.” So much kindness in the world! What a nice thing to experience in the week of Christmas. Speaking of which, we’re still celebrating the 12 Days of Christmas, although the days are starting to get a little less sparkly. For the third day, we ordered Thai food and binge watched Severance. Today was a big football day. We watched the Dolphins win, then watched parts of the Eagles/Bills game (in between reading and cooking). For dinner, my son requested apps, New Year’s Eve style (since he won’t be here on New Year’s). Now we’re settling down to watch the Bears game. This was a fun day, but tomorrow (the fifth day of Christmas) will be a little challenging. My son leaves, which is always hard, and we’re taking down the Christmas tree. The problem with a real tree is, they start to look really depressing after a while. If we leave it up much longer, it’s going to look like one big Charlie Brown tree. It’s sad, but we’ll leave all the other decorations up for a while. That’s a wrap! How was your weekend? Do you still have Christmas decorations up? Top photo by Austin Kehmeier on Unsplash