1. Options
2. Time
3. Quiet
4. Good material
5. Helpful librarian
6. Strategy
7. Work
8. Ease
9. Care
10. This

God, help, photos,

1. For health

1. God
2. Simple words
3. Some kind of corroboration
4. Surprise in the middle
5. Alan hung Christmas lights everywhere, even over both our fences, so we really don’t need to put up any :)
6. Some kind of compass
7. Peonies in a small vase, reminder of June
8. tinctured roses
9. Reading books
10. Half a circle

1. Cold! Cold enough for shivers and red noses and flakes of snow
2. Deeply touching reminders of MT
3. My husband
4. Wrapping gifts for the girls today, santa’s and ours. :)
5. Genuine love for others
6. Calm and peacefulness
7. Presence
8. New information for our house plan search
9. Christmas dresses for the girls
10. This

While I do try to regularly acknowledge how much I have to be grateful for, writing it down sure has power. I was reminded of this when I was recommending gratitude lists to an old friend. :)

1. Tired dogs. I have always listed a lot about Sugaree, our chocolate lab, but this summer we adopted a boxer mix named Molly. Molly is a rescue dog and she has stolen our hearts! They are worn out from an early playdate and sleeping soundly on the couch. <3

2. Simple Christmas decorations

3. Accepting what is…I have been struggling with our boy turning into a young man. Of course I knew this would happen and it's wonderful! It's just gone by too fast.

4. He still likes to bake with me. :)

5. Letting go of things that need to go, even when it's painful

6. Learning to be creative in a new way

7. Having some time to myself

8. Not feeling any holiday pressure

9. Grandma's recipes

10. Working as a team

• to breathe
• to forgive
• to listen
• to open
• to allow
• to love
• to connect
• to be grateful
• to show compassion
• to practice peace

1. God
2. Brushes
3. Observing with the body?
4. Not knowing what is coming
5. Julia with the smile of the century
6. An interested audience
7. She was nice and gave me water so I wouldn’t burn
8. A ride so I would not get wet
9. A loaner car
10. The new possibility

God, Mariella, joy

Decorations are up. Simple and sentimental!

Grateful for a morning off to shop. This elf needs to get busy!

Christmas clothes to deck myself

Relaxing and realizing the stress in in the details

Moving a sheep that says Simplify into the Nativity

Donating some of my  Christmas things to those picking up baskets next week

The wonderful news that Laughing Club is returning to the Library in January

Joy to the World!