This is what volunteering looks like

This is what volunteering looks like.

I cannot tell you how great it feels to see all of those envelopes finally stuffed with four sheets of paper each and all sealed! You may remember my huge to-do list last week that I shared. I have been very stressed this week about trying to get done everything I need to get done this week before I have a ten day run where I will not have much free time to do anything at home. I had so much to do in the few available days before that ten day run and this was one of the things I just had to get done.

I still need to stamp a return receipt message on each of them to get a reduced postage rate and then run them all through a postage machine, but the hardest part is done. I was up until 2:30 a.m. getting these done, but I did not care! I just needed them done!

Thinking of all my tasks was making me physically drought.

I have not been able to get much new done for the forum challenges in a long time. It makes me sad because when I do not work and get new things out, traffic and conversation in the forums go really down. That only made me feel more burdened.

However, yesterday the wonderful regulars in the forum posted so much I couldn't keep up and they were a real hoot! I do not know if they did that intentionally to make me feel better or if it was just happenstance, but I sure am blessed by them!