October 6, 2007

• Success

  Feeling sufficiently sheepish.  Feeling sufficiently reprimanded.  And, after sufficiently mulling things around in my mind, today I was determined to try on "down time" for size.

  Jesse took the girls (it's almost 4pm and they've been gone since 10:30am) to run errands, go out to lunch, check out a mall in another city, and he even picked up granddaughter, JanaLyn.  I have been home alone this whole time. 

  I loaded the dishwasher and ran it; and I washed the larger pieces by hand.  I turned on the dishwasher.  I had an early lunch.  I have leftovers planned for dinner.  Then I did it . . .

  I did NOTHING all day. 

  I forced myself to sit on the den sofa and start a book and then looked through a recent issue of Better Homes and Gardens.  I actually felt drowsy; which means, if I had more quiet time, I might be able to take a nap like *normal* people!

  I decided to clear my desk into a Rubbermaid bin Monday.  I also had a million things enter my mind BEFORE I got ready to do nothing, but chose to put every thought on the back burner.

  I don't know what Stephanie did with JanaLyn being gone and Stephanie being alone today;  BUT, *I* did it.  I stayed down and did nothing. 

  It actually wasn't bad!

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