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| ~sunday's treat...donuts |
We'll do Mom's shopping in the morning. I want to have her all set-up before the week gets in full swing. And with her going to other family for Christmas Day, I'm free later on. Hope that doesn't sound mean, but I'm tired. Tired of caring for folks, and tired of spreading myself too thin. After church this morning I was hit with a wave of exhaustion. All of sudden I wasn't feeling so good, and came home and got into bed. Perfect. Gosh, Christmas-time is wearing, isn't it? All the emotions tied in with it, trying to do more than necessary, and making attempts at pulling the world all together.
Not so good at that. The pulling together part. Got lots of loose ends, but maybe that's just the way of it with me.
Even after dinner tonight oldest daughter asked my opinion about her changing her work schedule, possibly just working two days a week. The thing is, and we discussed this, her employer depends on our daughter to do most of the work. She works at a small shop specializing in machine embroidery...monograms. She's the only full-time employee, and the void with her gone or working less will be huge. Anyway, we both told her she could actually stop working completely for a bit. We offered the same to our oldest son after he became exhausted with his job. He took off a year, and it was only contingent on him being able to pay his own bills. Had to have enough savings to take care of insurance, etc. We said the same to her. She's good with that, even got a bit excited about it. We'll pray and see what happens.
Speaking of praying, Yesterday I read Anne Lamott's book called Help, Thanks, Wow and it was wonderful. Got it for 2 bucks at the library bookstore, and while it was a quick read, it was just what I needed to read at that particular moment. She makes me cry. But who doesn't?
Take some time. Remember that.
