SoCS – Anyway – The Bag Lady

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “start your post or one paragraph with the word ‘anyway.’”Bonus points if you start your post with “anyway” and regular points if you use it in a paragraph somewhere else in your post. Enjoy!

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Anyway, there are eight days left before the big day and I haven’t wrapped a thing.🙄 Every year it seems harder to get into a Christmas spirit. I think it began in 2013 after my husband died in July and since he was the grandkids’ favorite jokester, it felt like the spirit balloon popped. Then a year later we all moved away from our small town and into Wyoming. It was culture shock for sure.

But we have survived some big obstacles since and we’re still here, putting up lights, giving small gifts and probably will forego the frosted cookie baking since one of the kids is two thousand miles away. That will be hard, because Christmas is her favorite thing all year round. We will gather and play games, eat lots and laugh more, anyway.