All posts by Crystal

New awareness

  1. Working through things
  2. being glad I’m here
  3. Compromise
  4. New levels of consciousness
  5. Asking- and receiving more than I could’ve expected
  6. Mulling over plans with my husband
  7. His amazing insight and forethought
  8. My grandma. Every day I find more reasons why I love and appreciate her
  9. Thinking of things the way she does, finally after years of listening to her soft and patient wisdom
  10. this

More ah

  1. Help from my husband
  2. Well-behaved toddler in stores
  3. Finding a few things
  4. Encouragement
  5. A new book to read, last in a trilogy
  6. Baby steps (mine, not Hannah’s;)
  7. Finding new ways to self-talk
  8. Sticking with it
  9. Friends
  10. This

Mid-night

  1. Middle of the night writing
  2. Being honest with a friend about what’s on my mind
  3. Mail arrived a day early
  4. Creative space
  5. Beauty routines with my toddler
  6. A small walk, love being out in the air and wind
  7. The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks
  8. Staying with joy
  9. R&r
  10. This

Ah

  1. Stepping into a higher zone
  2. And staying with the joy
  3. Believing differently
  4. Giggling and giggling
  5. Dancing instead of worrying
  6. The energy that comes when I stop worrying or complaining
  7. Preciousness
  8. Sychronized deep breathing of sleeping babies
  9. My eldest’s new command of language
  10. This

Sunday

  1. Creative inspiration
  2. Time to practice it
  3. Time with Mark
  4. A long walk
  5. Watching Ava and Mark ride the lawnmower and her steer
  6. Leaf jumping
  7. A sleepy baby
  8. A dear friend who said pull the (metaphorical) trigger
  9. Anticipation
  10. this

Castles

  1. Castles in the sky
  2. and building foundations under them (L.M.A.?)
  3. Shared interest with a dear friend
  4. Feeling “gotten”
  5. Ah, language
  6. Patience
  7. Doing what I can
  8. Hanging on to dreams (for if dreams go…life is a barren field, frozen with snow[quote?])
  9. Living dreams now, in this castle
  10. Amen

Love

  1. I’ve never loved anyone as much as I do my daughters
  2. I am so honored to be their mom
  3.  And to have the honor of spending time with them
  4. I love to watch them interact with the world
  5. to see and taste and hear and learn and smell and try and practice and play
  6. And laugh
  7. Being a mom is absolutely the best thing I’ve ever done
  8. I wouldn’t trade it for the world
  9. I love my girls
  10. And every moment of this