Blog

Well writing group is meeting this week and I have not been able to get on my Blog. I touched something like I always do, then I don't know how to fix it. Well I told my daughter she just had.had.had to help me today so I would have at least something to contribute to the group. I was starting to feel the eyes of my group members peering at me. Asking, " Tammy, what have you been writing." So as my daughter sat down with me I timed her. It took a total of 3 minutes to help me. I said, "That was all it took?" "Yes, Mom!"
I can't believe I haven't wrote on this blog for months. All it took was 3 minutes. I have been missing out. WOW.
I guess its time to get writing...  

Inside

The snow has us all tucked inside together. We can not venture out because it is bone chilling bitter cold. We look at each other more than we have all year. We talk to each other more than we have all year. We laugh with each other more than we have all year. The living room is filled with each available spot taken up by a person snuggled under a toasty blanket. Our dining room table has been used for each and every meal together. After we sit and have conversations about life, hopes and dreams, games are played with giggles and laughter.Aromas fill the kitchen with scents of bread, comfort foods and summer canned bounty drifting in corners around the house. Family bonding is happening because of this snow, because of staying inside with each other. As a mother I am grateful for this snow. I am happy to be surrounded by my husband and children. I am thankful to have some time to stay... "inside".  

Great

Children
Home
Land
Lake
Friends
Sunsets
Sky
Grandson
Food
31 Slices in March!

Thoughts

-So excited for Tam and Steve...a granddaughter
-Mary Helen has the cutest cat
-Ruth is so good at Poetry
-Ruth loves being home with her 4 kids
-me...
-Easter dinner
-Family over
-Laughs about the egg hunt
-Running fast
-Watched a movie
-House is quiet
-Going to the lake
-Fishing till dark
-Spending time alone with husband
-Its been a Hoppy Easter
  

Rest

Today was the first day of spring break. I didn't do much as far as go, go , go. I took my time and went at a slow pace. The usual, dishes, laundry, picking up this and that. I also took a three hour nap which I felt I needed. My legs have been aching , my eyes puffy, I needed rest. I cooked supper and raked leaves. (When I burned them the wind carried the smoke toward the house. No one liked that.) I also went for a walk around the field with my daughter and our dogs. Then we walked along the road to pick up trash, lots of it! I also put money in over 200 eggs for our egg hunt tomorrow. That took me 2 hours. I just took my time as I watched a movie. Now typing I'm having a glass of wine. I have enjoyed my first day of spring break. Even more that my friend sent me a text that traffic has been horrible, bumper to bumper on the way to the warm south. I'm so glad we went to Aruba and now do not have to go to Florida. I love staying home!

Mouse

Today my sister called me twice, plus sent me numerous texts during the day. She had high anxiety because she had a mouse in her car. While driving she heard this munch, munch, munch sound coming from under the seat. So she whacked the seat and it stopped. Then it started up again. When she stopped she picked up the seat and there looking at her was a big mouse. It jumped back to the back of the car under her school things. She called her husband who said just to leave all the doors open while you are in the school. She couldn't do that as she had her computer and all her things in there. So she thought she should get a mouse trap. However she left her purse in the other car. So her husband who works at a bank called the bank where she was so she could get some money. Money in hand she bought a mouse trap. Not a regular one, this one was a tray with sticky stuff in it to attract mice. Back to school she went in for her meeting. When she came out she reached for her apple on the seat. A bite was out of it. She couldn't remember taking a bite. Looking closer she saw teeny teeth marks. Then she picked up her brand new lunch bag and there was a big hole in it. Guess the mouse was hungry. There was the mouse under the seat caught in the trap. She took the trap out and laid it under her car then drove away. The critter had been caught .Driving away she saw its beady eyes looking at her so she drove back to try to free the thing. Poking at it with a pen she tried to free it. The sticky stuff was all over it and she broke its leg by accident. She cried. Finally free it just layed there in the grass. When home my phone rang again she said now she worried that the mouse had been eaten by a seagull and it stuck its beak together because of that sticky stuff.
* I laughed so much today because of this as I could see her screaming, then trying to save the small animal. I told her not to worry I'm sure a bird didn't get it. My sister is not like me. She knows I would have tried to grab it by the tail and throw it out of the car or stomp it. Whatever...we had fun talking today about the mouse!  

Length

I have been writing each night. Sometimes  I think I have a super idea, other slices I think have been just plain lame. But always they are about the same length no matter how good my ideas are. I have scrolled back and even measured them on the screen and yeah they are all, yes all, about the same. Then I looked at all of yours. Some are short and some are really, really long. I wonder how do they do it? How do they think of all those words? Plus they sound so good when all the words are molded together. I would think with all this practice I would be getting better. (I guess not). So I will continue to write, and they will, I'm sure be the same length. :)  * I could never write a novel!!