OK ladies, we’re cooked. Enough of the hanging around with the kids and nibbling on left-over chocolates (come on, you know you have your secret stash!), it’s time to get back to the grind and I DO mean grind. Early morning rise, gulps of coffee, lunch-making, clothes organizing, washing and drying, the school-work paper trail and homework keeping-up and bedtime routines, keeping up with dinners and activities and oh, the housework, the dreaded housework. But guess what? The daily grind is the BIG PICTURE. There’s no BIG EXPECTATION attached to the BIG PICTURE, it’s not a rehearsal all gearing-up for the BIG DAY, it’s the REAL THING. The holidays ARE a daze of holly, tinsel, wrapping paper, over-spending, over-eating and a mass of expectations topped off with one of those jumbo bows you can buy for your I-hope-he-leaps-for-joy-when-he-sees-it purchases. It’s time to roll up your sleeves, tie back your hair, clear the decks, put the sneakers on and start running. The screeching halt the holidaze bring is over and it’s time to … ya ready? And a-one, and a-two, and a-three — Do THE GRIND!
