Parcheesi Night

The girls and I are trying to find better ways to entertain ourselves when we get together (instead of eating and drinking!).  We've been playing Parcheesi!  Miss Kitty found the game somewhere.  It's a fun game, I wish I understood the strategy better!  Oh well, we are playing for fun, after all.  Tonight the Parcheesi will be played here!  Healthy snacks have been prepped and the "drink" station is ready.  Plenty of straws and ice!

I am trying really hard to stop the voice in my head from having such negative things to say.  The bff sent me the prayer of St. Francis of Asissi.  I've been saying it each morning as I start my day.  I think it sets a wonderful tone for the day.  It seems to keep me focused on the things that I can control and the things I can't.  Why is that always so hard?  Let go, I say it over and over to myself.  Making a change is really difficult.  I had no idea that I have been the way I am because it's simply too hard to chage. 

The bff and I are still walking every day.  This morning there was some frozen precipitation falling, I thought she would send me an e-mail suggesting that we take a day off, by noon the sun was shining.  We're meant to be walking.  I look forward to the stroll each day. 

My "son-in-law" returned on Wednesday.  It's hard to be in the room and not feel the tremendous sadness and loss that a person feels at the loss of their mother.  I can barely look at him.  I didn't know his mother well, but the times I met her I thought she was a pretty neat person and it was very obvious that she loves her children.  For him, the only parent he ever had and some of the time the only friend he had.  He came home early, he just didn't want to be away from his "family" any longer.  I can tell that this has changed him. 

New person at work this week.  I like her, but I like everybody!  I hope it works out!