(130) somethings take a very long time

Whew.

The House is clean and almost fully picked up.

The rest of the presents are wrapped and ready to go.

Tomorrow I will get out my Christmas cookies and 

put them in gift bags and the rest in a bag to give out,

to make sure everyone has something.

If I had not wrapped presents today I think I would 

be overwhelmed tomorrow so I am thanking God that I got

this all done today!

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Part of today was a bit hard.

I often find the few days between

Christmas part 1 and New Years and then Christmas Part 2

a bit of a hard lull... I am always too busy to 

go out but can feel isolated just being home after

being with family.

It happens pretty much every year.

The battle really is in our minds.

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And, the phone memory picture removal, 

that ended up failing last night

and then had many interruptions today and 

finally is done now!

So I deleted my photos and some videos from my phone

(I have a few church songs on video that I like to listen to 

when I am on a flight, esp ascent and descent... I kept those).

It was a bit hard to do (not that I have lost them) because

I had to get rid of my Cleo videos and pictures from my phone;

just felt so final and sad.  So I had to deal with that but am back at 

peace with Cleo's absence as much as one can be, 

when one loved one's pet so very much.

So now my phone has room for all the Christmas pictures.

***

It's going to be 3 days of church morning and night for 2 days I think and

then the morning of Christmas (Tuesday Jan 7th) so don't be surprised if

I can't blog at all or as much. 

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Let me tell you that I feel like we who have old calendar Christmas but live

in countries that have December 25 Christmas that we end up doing double duty.

I had to keep my baking a bit more simple; 

I did not get any bars done this year.

But I have great cookies!

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Well, here it comes: the days just before Christmas!