Are the holidays sneaking up on you and you’re starting to panic? Are your kids making their lists and checking them twice a million times to make sure they’re just right? Is someone demanding money from you every time you turn around and you’re not sure how you will manage to put presents under the tree? Did you buy presents in Game Stop while your kids were browsing the games and tell the guy at the register to hurry up so you could stuff them in your purse before one of your boys walked up and saw what you were buying? Or maybe you just won the lottery and Christmas is going to be the.best.one.ever. this year! Write the who, what, when, where, and why of the happenings of the week (in letter form of course) grab the button from Julie‘s sidebar, and link up at the bottom. We look forward to your Letters of Intent!

Dear Readers,

Letters of Intent tend, by nature, to be a bit snarky. I usually try to temper mine but tonight I am giving the snark free reign. Please read with tongue firmly in cheek! These letters were written in an attempt to find some humor in what could have been a REALLY bad week! Thanks!

Beth

Dear Google,

These random, and unpopular, changes are making you look even MORE like Facebook and I must say … I am NOT impressed! And hearing that you will be doing away with Google Friend Connect for all non-Blogger blogs would have been the low point of my week were it not for the fact that it has been a REALLY bad week! And hearing that your proposed solution is for me to create a Google+ Page for my blog? Really? Do I look like I need something else to stress over? And how many people are ON Google+ anyway? So far I only know one (ONE!) person who really likes it! So … once we stress and fuss and finally get Google+ where we want it … will you shut it down too? Did I mention that I am NOT happy about this?

Signed with GREAT irritation,
A WORDPRESS Blogger

Dear Readers,

PLEASE please please do not lose me when Google Friend Connect disappears! You can subscribe via Feedburner (another Google product … sigh), by e-mail, follow on Facebook, etc. Just … please …. don’t abandon me just because Google does! That would make me really sad!

Beth

Dear Gossipers,

You got me in trouble with your wagging (and exaggerating) tongues and I am NOT happy! In the meantime if you are reading this and wonder if it’s about you … the answer is yes!

Hoping You’re Happy Now

Dear Family,

There is not a contest to see whose life can most closely resemble a soap opera! Or to see who can drive me crazy first. You can stop now! Really!

Mom

I really want to write a letter to my employer but I’m choosing my wording with great care, and will probably NOT publish it, so you might want to pray for me. I need to remain employed and don’t really want to change jobs but there has been some recent friction and misunderstandings. If I could quit, and be a stay at home mom again, I would do it in a heartbeat. I can’t. So I either need to change jobs …. or make some changes that will make this one more pleasant. I can’t be specific. I can ask those of you who pray to please pray that God will provide me wisdom and tact! Don’t ask for patience! I can’t handle the usual answer to that prayer request!

We had a GREAT Thanksgiving vacation with family in Texas! It was exactly the rest, calm, love, etc. that we needed for a few days. And then we came home and were hit from all angles. I’m about ready to throw my Jesus Calling Calendar across the room!  (Not really.) It has been exactly what I have needed to see as I faced each day! I’m looking forward to getting back  to it in depth when I have more time!  (I do that over on Journey if you’re interested in checking it out.) I’m thinking about doing a book club “Grace for the Good Girl” either here or on Faith Walk, after the first of the year. Please let me know if you would be interested. I’ve heard a LOT of good things about this book and would enjoy digging in together. More details to follow.

Took my bedtime meds before I started this post. They have now kicked in!

J will be home 2 weeks from tonight! My mama heart is so ready to have my boy home …. for as long as God loans him to me!

Guess I ought to go to bed …

For the sake of my self-appointed supervisors … let me assure you that I wrote this Thursday evening … at home! I am SCHEDULING it to post tomorrow at 8:00. Just because a blog is posted at a certain time does not mean it was just written! In fact … with a little luck … I could have a post scheduled to publish after I’m dead! Bet that would really shake you up, huh!