Simply a moment...

I reach for my phone on the bedside table to check the time...4.20am...one again I have been woken by my toothache.  It's not as bad as it has been and I lie in the warm, snuggly bed for a while knowing I will have to step out and venture into the cold kitchen for some pain killers shortly.  I listen to the stillness of the house, interspersed by the sounds from the side of me.  Tony is not snoring but he is definitely breathing noisily!  I make a quick trip down stairs for the paracetamol and race back to the warmth under my duvet.  I am awake now and I count the days to my root canal treatment.  2 weeks today.  A bird starts tweeting outside. Surely not the dawn chorus already?

My mind wanders to the things I need to do today on my day off.  I jolt wide awake as I realise I have a job application to finish!  I need to get that done and ring about a few more.  It really is time for me to leave my current company.  More birds join in outside my window and I need to block them out.  I reach for my phone again to listen to a podcast to get myself to sleep.  I stick in my ear phones and tune into a Paperclipping Round table.  It is a discussion on scrapping those close to you called "I love you, Awesome Nerds!".  I think of my own "awesome nerd" and a layout starts forming in my mind to document the songs he sings around the house.  The pain killers have kicked in and I am relaxed again.  I nod off thinking of patterned paper and embellishments, songs and page titles...

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Simply a moment...

I hear the bell of the tea shop door ring behind me as Tony and Josh leave.  I am standing outside on the pavement looking across at the village green, all pretty covered in snow.  I am happy to feel the sun on my face.  Too many days recently there have been clouds; low, oppressive clouds.  I much prefer these crisp, sunny winter days.  On the green I see some children having a snowball fight and another set starting to build a snowman.  I smile at their luck of having snow when there is no school.  I give thanks that I live in such a lovely place with a sense of community.  We did not have to get the car out this morning but took a 20 minute ramble into the village to treat ourselves to a family breakfast.  Something else I am grateful for I realise; that we are able to have such a treat and that we enjoy spending time together.  Josh interrupts my thoughts by telling me that there will only be two more Doctors after Matt Smith.  Why? I ask.  Because the Doctor can only regenerate two more times, says Josh.  Another typically random fact from a boy who has so many in his head.  I wonder how he keeps them all in there.  I stand and stare a moment longer, soaking up the sun and the snowy scene.  Then I realise I am feeling rather full and it is time to get moving to walk off some of the wonderful breakfast I have just eaten.  And so we head off, crunching through the crisp snow as we go...

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