A Soak in the Tub!

Gather a few reading materials...light a few candles, get the bubbles goin'!

Turn off the lights, turn on the little lamp so reading is easier...

check to make sure the water is hot enough to make me turn all red....

(holy smokes, look at those flip flop tan lines!!)

make sure you've got plenty of towels...all ready....climb in!

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It's rare, but sometimes I just feel like I need to sit in the tub and soak awhile. I'm normally a shower girl myself, I like how fast it is: in and out, a great time saver. We grew up at home with ONLY one tub in one small bathroom (with nine kids and more than two adults most of the time....amazing!) so to me, a shower was what I'd always wanted. So for 27 years now, it's been showers every day.

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BUT...for a change of pace, it's nice sometimes to lay back and light a candle or two and read a book or a magazine. That's what I did tonight after we got done mowing the lawn in the windy, chilly, cloudy weather. I felt chilled to the bone and that deep tub was calling my name.

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It's also rare that I buy a PEOPLE magazine, but I did that today, (had to know what's up with John & Kate, sadly) and I read my way almost the whole way through that while I sat in the quiet and listened to nothing but the bubbles poppin'.

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Ahhhhhhhhhhh......

Peace and Quiet.

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But I feel lots better now after that nice, long soak.

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(Maybe that's what John and Kate need....a good long and quiet soak, on a weekend away, together, to visit and remember where they started from. And then they could watch their wedding video afterward, and maybe thumb through all their pictures or scrapbooks, and remember all their blessings. And maybe there'd be apologies for poor decisions, agreement to counseling, and they'd think it was worth working together to make their way out of this mess and keep their family together.)