Sometimes the last thing you think you need is the one thing that will help you get over that hurdle.

I was hatin’ life today, for sure. Hatin’ this dismal time of year, hatin’ the looming holidays, and hatin’ the whole world. I was so tired I couldn’t focus on anything. All I wanted was to bundle up and stay home and wallow.

Tammy didn’t exactly drag me out of the house tonight. She offered to help me with something that’s been weighing on my mind. It’s not a big thing in the big scene, but it’s an important detail (holiday-related, so I can’t spill, sorry). It was an offer I couldn’t afford to refuse.

I met her at her house, so I got to see David and the boys, including a megadose of Aiden’s high wattage smile. Bingo! That’s what I needed, even more than the help. But the help was what got me moving, and it’s what’s going to make me sleep a little easier. So for that, as well as the rest, I’m grateful.

All my problems aren’t over, but I feel about a thousand percent better tonight than I did this afternoon, when it seemed that everything was going wrong and I was looking around, waiting for the other safe to drop.