It's 8:02 a.m. on a Monday.
Mornings are tough on my body. I have arthritis in my spine, and mornings reveal too much pain sometimes. I would say the disease is manageable now, but that wasn't always the case.
My favourite part of my morning routine, after hauling my body out of bed, is seeing my cat. When it's just us in the house, she sometimes sleeps at the top of the basement stairs so I can't avoid saying hello.
Not that I'd ever avoid saying hello to her.