Beware of 'The Distraction'.

Yesterday morning, I had an instinct that Mom's altered states were on the way. Awake at 7 AM with eyes wide open...and sleep no longer an option for a very long time. Well, it's 7 AM again, and there were a whole lot of hall'Lucy"nations going on during the very long night. There were no naps or nodding off during the day. As we left the living room for bed [that night], she saw a man standing outside the window. Then when it was 'lights out', it became, "Who are all these people?"

And evidently she was babysitting a party of drinking women on the third floor, and it evolved to the husbands and dogs arriving there too. and Flo was afraid of getting in trouble...???

"Are your eyes open, Mom?"

"Yes."

"Well close those peepers and you won't see them!"

"Ok..."

Have I ever mentioned my theory on 'The Distraction'? When you are having difficulties of any kind...whether it involves the mind...body...spirit...emotions...life...

Never ask the question:

What else could happen? or make the statement that 'Things can not get any worse!

There have been many occasions where I was already battling something that I thought was stressful enough...when along came something else that demanded front and center stage! And that is the distraction...

Quite often, the distraction is more stressful than the original scenario.

Having explained this...

I would like to thank the Good Lord for the thunder and lightening storm in the middle of the night...in October...while ALL eyes were wide open...in a room full of strangers.

Haha...very funny! NOT!

Because I then had the dog glued to my side or wanting to hang out in my armpit due to the storm.

Well, I'm reeling Lord...but I'm still standing!!

[That's a quote from my life in 1984....but that's another story...for another time.]