For walks in the woods
For amazing food
For time
For my husband
For my daughters
For options
For great friends
For books
For resources
For the drive, determination and initiative to use them

1. Walking land today with Mark&Hannah, playing in the woods
2. Actually going out this evening with girlfriends, albeit with a baby
3. Watching myself, aren’t we fascinating from the inside
4. A new theory on currents of energy
6. Being honest
7. Trusting
8. Inspiring women
9. Connectedness
10. This

1. Dh
2. Following my daughter to the path by the stream
3. Remembering gratitude in all the right moments
4. Trusting her
5. Trusting me
6. Remembering that changes that take place in my mind don’t become public knowledge unless I say something
7. Sunday slowness
8. Taking charge
9. Reminding another that slowness is ok
10. Watching my daughter arrange flowers
11. H crawling in the grass
12. A long walk
13. Seeing an inspiring house
14. Knowing what I want to do with my life

1. Gratitude, because that’s what I need right now
2. My husband, who works tirelessly
3. Finding middle ground
4. Telling my ego to shove it
5. Answering my toddler’s question “why” 1,000 times a day- a blessing because often it causes me to question things myself
6. Hannah woke up with a mohawk today and of course we left it alone
7. Wise advice
8. Libraries for kids on cold days
9. Sudden realizations
10. this

1. An excellent inspector
2. Talking it through
3. Seeing the heart of a situation
4. Friends I can ask
5. Healing
6. My sweet girls
7. Self-care
8. Lavender
9. Hard work
10. This

1. Giving myself a bit of time alone, even though I had to stay up late for it
2. Admitting when I was frustrated and at my wit’s end- instead of assuming everyone around me would know
3. Visit to the storage shed for a few much-needed things, and weights, which I missed more than I thought I would
4. Rain, sun, rain, wind kind of a day- lots of change, matched everyone’s moods
5. Met a neighbor
6. Chatted with a dear friend- it felt like ages since we’d been able to talk
7. Revamping my initial plans
8. Martha Beck
9. Paying close attention
10. Gratitude, which saves me, every single day

1. Early walk on the towpath, though brief
2. Starbucks coffee with heavy cream- my absolute favorite
3. Breakfast with my inlaws
4. Time for my girl to run and play and imagine- good for her esp. during all this change
5. Rain
6. The library
7. Running and laughter
8. Making mud pancakes
9. And sometimes real ones
10. Compassion

1. Finally in our apartment, basking in the quiet and solitude
2. Except for the neighbors, who are wrestling upstairs? Throwing each other on the floor, wordlessly? It’s fun trying to figure it out.
3. Hearing good news about the house we made an offer on- they accepted, now for the inspection
4. Huge, tons, massive help from my MIL today, who watched the kids and then cleaned. She’s wonderful.
5. And Tessa, who took Ava out with G for a looong walk while I did the floors and unpacked. She came back full of joy, and tired.
6. A new way of being in my relationships (who’d have thought being 100%, no bones about it, clear about what I want would be so effective?)
7. On that note, there were two instances where I stood my ground with an extended family member today, and darn if that doesn’t feel good to say, “No.” and then, “No. I said no, and NO is how it’s going to be.” and finally, at some point, 80 no’s later, being heard. (Strangely enough, 3 year olds never hear that word, must be one of those sound frequency things, like when they play high-pitched noises for teenagers that middle-agers and older can’t hear.)
8. Trying, and trying, and trying again. Because when you fall 7, stand up 8 and all that. And standing up is all I know how to do.
9. A less busy day than I anticipated, oh what joy
10. Building castles in the sky

1. We submitted an offer on a house tonight that just came on the market. Exciting!
2. Though it’s further out than our old place, because of it’s proximity to the interstate, it takes less time to get to town (or the same in some cases)
3. Grateful for something I’m not going to list publicly
4. My daughter played the piano today, which was absolutely adorable, and she loved it. definitely on my wish list
5. My husband physically delivered the papers when our scanner decided to stop working
6. All this excitement took the stress-thoughts away about moving to an apartment tomorrow, and guess what, we’re still moving even though the stress thoughts were not thunk- seems like we could always do without them :)
7. Grateful for plans and ideas and homes and love
8. Grateful for friends
9. Grateful for health: healthy body, healthy mind, healthy heart, healthy thoughts
10. Grateful for this moment, and whatever is here in it.

1. My youngest is sick again with throwing up, and I’m sitting up holding her while she sleeps. I am so grateful to be able to do this.
2. My husband brought towels and wrangles our oldest so I could focus on H
3. Her breathing is steady and she seems in a deep, good sleep. One of the best things for healing.
4. Writing and drawing today in little bits- reading Lucy Knisley’s Displacement which is eerily parallel to some of the thoughts I’m going through, some of the situations I’ve recorded in comic form even
5. Inspiration, even in grief
6. Interesting sunchronicities with a friend’s nearness to our new apt (we move in Fri) and creative collaboration
7. Sleeping family, my loves
8. Realizing my interpretation was wrong, after the fact, and learning from that
9. Warm, bare-shoulder weather
10. This beautiful moment