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I’m going to tell you one little fact that speaks volumes about my life right now; I just *now* (as in this morning) took the Christmas lights down off of my front porch.
~ahem~
Of course, the 5 strings of lights are now wadded up in a ball on my kitchen table and I hope to do something about that before the week day is over. That something will probably be be to stuff the whole thing in a Target bag and throw it in the garage to deal with next November! (At which time I will curse at myself, and go buy new ones.)
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I’m sitting at my desk surrounded by paperwork, books, and Legos. I can’t move from my chair for the amount of work hanging over my head. And when I have a moment to stand up and stretch I step on Bionicles and bruise the poor soles of my feet. Sheesh. I’m on a tight deadline with one rush project, and have two more looming. Work is good to have, but well, yeah. Their vacation was not my vacation. I cannot tell you how glad I am that our so-called vacation is over!
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On Tuesdays I volunteer at the school library. Mostly I put away books, hundreds of pounds of books. I’m also the checkout girl, making sure they’ve brought back their overdue books before they get another, that sort of thing. Sometimes they ask me to help them find just the perfect book. And once I got to read to a first grade class. (They even listened!)
Some of the fourth graders laugh at me because I’m terrible with names. They try to make me guess who they are. I see the same kids over and over, every Tuesday, bright, smiling faces of kids who want to be in the library, who clearly love to read, who get as many books as they can every week. I love it there, even if their names escape me, their happiness doesn’t.
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Today is Tuesday! I get to ignore the pings of emails, silence the ringer on my cell, and forget about the Christmas lights on my kitchen table. I get to go to the library.
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Our lights are still up. I liked it the other day, when it was snowing snowing snowing.
I still have my christmas cards hanging up if that makes you feel better. But this is Vermont and we’ve got snow here still. So they don’t look out of place.
And good for you volunteering at the school library!
I get the pleasure of volunteering at our school library on Tuesdays too! The afternoon has 2 first grade classes and and one K. I love it. My favorite are the ones that take out the most random of non-fiction books!
Ah, nothing wrong with keeping the lights up until June. Heck, the stores start stocking Christmas ornaments then, so you might as well leave them up all year round. Save yourself the hassle each year.
Kudos for volunteering at the library!
I think we are leading parallel lives. And thanks for the reminder to take the Christmas wreathe off my front door! oops…