1. An unexpected and completely wonderful package from our favorite (it’s easy to favor the world’s best!) librarian- beautiful books for the girls to enjoy
2. Rest and sleep and recovery from the world’s longest cold (from my perspective)
3. Ironing out details and smoothing ruffled feathers between professionals 
4. A meeting with incredible minds and hearts and souls 
5. Seeing a few big-picture vantage points
6. Working out, which feels wonderful, why do I let it lapse
7. Standing my mama ground
8. Letting others have a bad moment without needing to join them 
9. Peace and quiet inside
10. Creative recovery

• Watching our neighbor’s tree change with the seasons…so pretty…pink buds in the spring, green in the summer, autumn orange, and plain with white snow.
• A black bear deciding to go to school one morning at Bozeman high school and was roaming the halls…students (who had to go their rooms, of course) were more interested than afraid because they see so many bears in Montana :)
• A’s wonderful new job!!
• Barbara visiting with her friend, Glen, who is from England.
• Service dogs donation
• GPa’s consideration for federal jury duty.
• “The most important choice I make is the choice I make most important.”

healthy nervousness, confidence, knowledge, Jimmy Kimmel, Mariella, Mary Ann, mom, sis, love, hope

1. God
2. Odd numbers
3. Prompts
4. No explanations
5. Cool autumn night bringing back memories (especially of Halloweening)
6. The cello and the guitar
7. Eggplant parmesan from the last eggplants

Very Grateful for:
God’s calm
flautas
lace from 1800’s
Tsuneko Sasamoto, 101 year-old photographer, http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/08/national/pioneer-photojournalist-blazed-trails-women/#.ViUGXStqqW4
popcorn popped on the stove
the peach-tinted early morning clouds against a increasingly blue-tinted sky
a greeting card in the mail
7 hours of sleep
a 55-degree morning
God whispers to us in our pleasure, but he shouts to us in our pain. ~C.S. Lewis

bringing happiness and good times to others, parties, bug repellant, smiles, babies laughter, kids playing, friends, family, work, opportunity, future prospects, principles, hope, love…..

Very Grateful for:
God’s opportunities
A new online class to teach
Remembering to find where I am attached to something
Bible Scriptures set to Hubble telescope images– http://w3ace.com/stardust/
Catching the dish before it fell
Not using the car for a day but staying close to home
A walk with Ruby
The geese on the lake
Seeing and visiting with Kathy on the walk
The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy. ~Djuna Barnes

1. God
2. Beautiful fall days
3. Orange nights
4. Surprise flowers
5. Past and present and future gratitude
6. Things that happened naturally
7. Activity

1. A beautiful day
2. My 3.5 year old is riding a bike without training wheels, as of yesterday. I could not be more proud. 
3. We also started home school a few weeks ago, and I say gratitude every day that I am able to do that with her
4. I’m grateful we’re getting into more of a groove as a family
5. I’m so grateful for this wooded, nature-filled space to live and spend our time
6. I appreciate the libraries so much, my universe would be the size of a dust particle without all that libraries have given me
7. I love having the opportunity to look and choose and decide and compare for as long as we need to in our home search
8. I am so grateful for my body, its health, and all the incredible functions and systems that keep it running and thriving
9. I am so grateful for exercize, walking, workouts and activities that make my lungs work and my legs move
10. I am so grateful for this practice, which has changed me. 
11. Also this.