A Little Tense?
Christmas time seems to bring a few tensions with it. Deadline shopping at over-crowded malls, travel plans, weather, flight delays, decorating, Christmas programs, money worries, cooking challenges, eating challenges, family relations...is that enough? On Christmas I noticed my daughter was wearing some new bright red knitted stockings (This sounds like a digression, but it isn't). I asked if someone had given them to her for Christmas. She smiled and told me she knitted them herself. I was impressed. Then she said that one was larger than the other. I observed that it was. Well, I thought that was sort of funny...but I happen to know that often one or more of a person's feet is bigger than the other (that sentence is for Sue). My daughter told me that wasn't the reason. She didn't do it on purpose. I thought that was funny too. She thought they came out that way because she knitted one of them while listening to the book-on-tape...“The Endurance”. She thought it was probably the tension of the story that caused her stitches on that stocking to be just a little tighter. Somehow that was funny too.
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