Currently

Time // 12:30 p.m.
Place // on break at work
Eating // a cheese ball and crackers, cupcake, random other snacks that patients have brought us, chicken parmesan for lunch provided by a drug rep
Drinking // water
Watching // carolers pass through the clinic and getting that warm fuzzy feeling
Reading // The Passage by Justin Cronin for book club; still in the middle of Moby-Dick too
Wanting // a color printer at home
Thinking // about all the goals and plans I want to make for the new year
Creating // December daily pages
Hoping // that Meredith starts sleeping later in the mornings instead of waking up with me at 4:30
Needing // to finish Christmas shopping, more quick weeknight meal ideas
Anticipating // hosting Christmas at our house, a fresh paper planner for 2013

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It’s been a very normal, very good week at our house. Early mornings, decent work days, family dinner every night (I don’t think this has ever happened and I am so proud and excited to make it a habit), some Christmas shenanigans, early bedtimes, and lots of sleep.

This weekend I’m going shopping with my dad (an annual tradition since I was 13 years old), visiting my uncle, attending a work party and book club, and hopefully fitting in some down time.

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My sincerest thoughts and prayers are with the families involved in the school shooting in Connecticut. But this is the kind of thing that I absolutely cannot allow myself to think about because I will lose my cool and become controlled by anxiety. Looking forward to the day when there will be no more crying or pain or sin or death.