Do You Hear What I Hear?

December 23, 2013 Off By Lisa

A pot of water boiling on the stove. We need to use those last few potatoes today.

Rain – or maybe melting snow – dripping outside the windows. Perhaps a little of both.

Christmas songs on the radio. Awesome.

Cars driving by. The windows are open today. Fifty-four degrees so far today.

A flock of geese – very large, I think – honking as they fly overhead. They can be heard through the open window and coming over the kid monitor in Zilla’s room producing a strange stereo effect.

A cat howls from somewhere in the house. He doesn’t sound like he’s trapped behind a closed door…he can solve his own problem.

Kidzilla playing with her Christmas stuffed animal friends in the living room. There is a heated debate between a moose and a mouse about a race. Somehow a lamb is also involved.

Ornaments jingling and clinking on the tree. A cat just wriggled his way into the Christmas cave.

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Coffee pot beeping to tell me it’s about to shut off. There may be one more cup left.

Rain falling steadily now. A slight breeze stirs the blinds and makes them click against each other.

Kitchen timer. Potatoes are ready.

 

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About The Author

Lisa A. Listwa is a self-employed writer with experience in education, publishing, and the martial arts. Believing there was more to life than punching someone else’s time clock and inspired by the words of Henry David Thoreau, she traded her life as a high school educator for a life as a writer and hasn’t looked back. She is mother to one glorious handful of a daughter, wife to the nicest guy on the planet, and reluctant but devoted owner of three Rotten Cats. You can find her adventures and thoughts on living life deliberately here on the blog.

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