As I reflect this month, I think of all the thinks... :: smiles :: What a typo no?  All the "thinks"... I have to think.  I was going to say things I have to do, but in reality, I think it is more the 'thinks' I have to think is more accurate.  It is the things that we hold in our mind that make us tired or grumpy, elated or excited.  I heard once that it wasn't what we DID that made us tired, it was what we have not done. 

Since we are moving into a newly built home, and my oldest daughter is getting married only a month apart, all my 'thinks' seem to be constantly swimming through my dreaming and waking moments.  Perhaps in my attempt to make it through another day, I can turn some of my 'thinks' to those things that are gracious and good in my life and remember what I *have* accomplished once in awhile instead of only what I have not.  I know that it is the only thing that will keep me sane.

I read that taking ten minutes a day to do absolutely *Nothing* revives one about 50%.  I have tried it. It is very difficult to quiet your mind and not be doing anything but - being.  However, I've found it to be the best part of my day some days.  Try it, you may like it. 

So then, here is to wonderful 'thinks' and moderate stress in each of our bustling bumptious busy lives.
 

Note here - Since I have tried to keep things short on this E-zine, for a quick enjoyment, I am only posting a small sampling of this essay on the "Old Days".  Some may have already seen it but it delights me each time.  IF you want the whole of it, click on the button below and it will take you to a page where I have posted it in entirety. 

Anne Hathaway was the wife of William Shakespeare.  She married at the age of 26.  This is really unusual for the time. Most people married young, like at the age of 11 or 12.  Life was not as romantic as we may picture it.  Here are some examples:

Anne Hathaway's home was a 3 bedroom house with a small parlor,  which was seldom used (only for company), kitchen, and no bathroom. Mother and Father shared a bedroom.  Anne had a queen sized bed, but did not sleep alone.  She also had 2 other sisters and they shared the bed also with 6 servant girls.  (this is before she married)  They didn't sleep  like we do lengthwise but all laid on the bed crosswise.

Her Wedding was probably in June.  Why?  They took their yearly bath in May, so they were still smelling pretty good by June, although they were starting to smell, so the brides would carry a bouquet of flowers to hide  their  body odor. 

They took their yearly bath in May, but it was just a big tub that they would fill with hot water. The man of the house would get the privilege of the nice clean water. Then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally  the children. Last of all the babies. 
By then the water was pretty thick.  Thus, the saying, "don't throw the baby out with the bath water," it was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it.

More HERE