Stillme's Chapters Continue Some More

[stillme]

Thanks for the hug-thought Kat. Detaching, tho, is a beautiful thing. Wish it could be bottled. I could be an addict.

And thanks for the prayers, JDK! They are always a good thing. My list (including you) is getting so long, I'm afraid I fall asleep before I get to the end of all my invisible friends here that I want to lift up in prayer every night. (And maybe you &/or others will find this helpful. My Pastor yesterday gave this website out as a very good men's daily devotional site (tho, o/c, good for women as well): josh.org It's on my list of things to check out as well.

H went outside ot mow the lawn. At one point he must have stopped very near D's room and, tho I heard the rumble of his voice, I made no attempt to quiet D or try to listen in as D & I were sitting on the floor underneath her (closed) window playing the 12 Dancing Princess Game. More detaching, I guess; or not snooping? Whatever - wouldn't have prolly disclosed anything I didn't already know or would care to know.

When he finished & came to D's doorway, he was casual & friendly. (lol), asked if I had any plans for the day ("Not until 6:00.") & did I mind if he went to the gym for an hour or so & left the kids w/me. ("No, that's fine.") Prompted D to tell me what they did yest. & when he said "None of her clothes fit." explaining why he felt the need to buy her 2 bags of clothes (She had already told me this. The girl does love her shopping! lol), I said "Well, none of the clothes SHE CHOOSES TO WEAR fit b/c they are last-year's clothes. If she would wear any of the drawer-full or closet-full of clothes for this year, they wouldn't be too tight or too short. Huh, D?" H obviously didn't know this. I said, "You can buy her clothes, of course, but she's reaalllly picky [pinching D, who squeals] lately and will not wear shorts, will not wear capris; only wants her fav 2 skirts & a couple of tops." [more growls & poking at D; H is smiling now]. Then I repeated that I'd told D I wouldn't buy her anything else and was gonna hide away all her last-year's stuff & she could either find something else to wear or go - and she interrupts w/ "butt nekkid?!" & I pretended outrage at her word-choice ('potty' words are suddenly cool w/her but she - mostly - uses them to get me to play-fuss w/her). He says that that's a good idea, & he's very relaxed & smiling.

Then H said (not asked, tho, again) something about copying pics [from my computer] onto adisc so he can make [his own family - prolly w/o me] albums - Ouch! but only a tiny one cuz Detaching still firmly in place). We talked about that a bit, and he offered (again, like a good friend would) to bring back a thumb-drive to copy the pics from S's computer (when mine was crashed) cuz it doesn't have a copy-to-disc capabilities.

We'll see what version of H comes back this afternoon.