For the past month I’ve watched that commercial where the the girl jumps up and down with the two big bags in front of the guy sitting on the couch yelling “Done! Done, done, done!”
For two weeks I wanted to be her and tonight I finally am. All done! Done, done, done. Food, presents, shopping, and cleaning – all done. And with a day to spare. One daughter is driving as I write and is almost here. The other arrives tomorrow. With everything done, they’ll be time to just sit around the fire and listen to them talk about life in their worlds. That is all I want to do. Sit and listen. Really hear where they’re headed in 2012.
This will be our first Xmas alone without the extended family and I get a feeling it will be a pretty special one. So to be “Done! Done, done, done!” and have nothing else to do but sit in my chair and watch my family just be my family is the best gift I could get this year (along with that iPhone).
“Live every act fully as if it were your last.”
~ Buddha
And so, as another day goes by, I hope you, too, are “Done! Done, done, done!”, and….I have written.
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