I have one cat who is ALWAYS underfoot, especially in the kitchen. I'm pretty sure she thinks there is a possibility of some food - either in her bowl, or dropped on the floor. Every morning I get up - do my morning routine in the bathroom - then I get dressed. And then I go pack my food for the day - breakfast, lunch and a couple of snacks. Normally, she is right there - but usually she is eating from the dry food that we leave out round the clock. Yesterday and today, however, she tried a different tactic. She sat, unmoving, just morosely staring at her empty food bowl. I didn't notice at first - I made my coffee, and starting getting things out of the refrigerator. She didn't move - and I had to step around her. She still didn't move. This just made me laugh - she gobbles up the canned food when Dave feeds her before he comes to bed - then she has nothing until the next night when he feeds her again. But - if staring at that bowl COULD have put food in it (or even persuaded ME to put food in it) - well, let's just say she gave it a really good try!
Dave made an announcement last night - and it probably would be startling to anyone who hasn't been married to him for nearly 16 years: he has picked out the music for the Christmas musical. June has just started, and he is already thinking about Christmas. But when you do what he does, you have to always be thinking ahead. If he waited until September, when the choir is ready to start listening to the musical, to pick it out - it would be too late. He has to choose the musical - thinking about the drama, the sets, the costumes and everything else that goes along with it - long before it is time to start working on it. He has to order the music, make sure that every book is stamped with the church name, and the books are numbered. And it is this kind of preparation that makes him really, really good at his job. As soon as our patriotic musical is over at the end of June, he and I will both start listening to the musical - working out drama and set details, long before anyone else even begins to think of Christmas. And the choir will start working on it in September, still long before many people are ready to think about Christmas. But when it comes time for the performance, all the preparation and hard work will definitely pay off.
I know these are two very unrelated thoughts - but in my mind, they speak to me about this journey I am on. I've had to quit thinking of food the way my Serafina apparently does - just because the bowl is empty, doesn't mean that I have to fill it. She has plenty of food to keep her satisfied, but it isn't what she WANTS. The food I NEED is a whole lot less than the food I have always WANTED. And now that I'm learning that leasson - it's making a huge difference. And it's never too early to prepare - when I decide what and how much I am going to eat BEFORE I go out - or to a family reunion - or even at home, I am much better able to stick to my plan.
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