{?} blur

Feeling so grateful for some computer down time in my life. The computer isn't absent, just has been far less available. It's felt good.

week 5

thursaday: jonathan's birthday and well wishes for another year

friday: snow falling on a creed family christmas eve with everyone happy in new pj's and the kids gathered around me to listen to their new new christmas eve book

saturday: the child that changed my world, still does, Jesus.

sunday: kitchen time with dottie cate

monday: a fun late night of junior high cheer leading, prom dresses and shoes, and belly laughter watching videos on you tube.

tuesday: unexpectedly running in to old friends and catching up

wednesday: final fireside morning of the year with coffee and the scriptures, even if it really isn't cold enough or snowing

week 4

thursday: bad dreams, because i get to spend extra and unexpected cuddle time with my boys

friday: classroom christmas parties and the ability to have the time to be a momma in the room with my kids and their friends

saturday: the wisdom and stories of elders

sunday: cinnamon-cheese-carmel corn mix from topsy's on the plaza in kansas city

monday: taking chas christmas shopping. watching him thoughtfully choose gifts for his brother and sister, then spending every last penny he had and asking me for a few extra.

tuesday: a home full of mommas, kiddos and an oven working overtime

wednesday: roller coasters and carolers, thousands of twinkle lights, funnel cakes and hot cocoa - an ozark holiday at silver dollar city

Gratitude 352...343

Grateful that my life has been so full I haven't had a chance to post to this blog!! Will take a break until the new year as my computer time will be non-existent. Love you both so much!!!

week 3

thursday: baby creed

friday: being up to my elbows in icing, sprinkles, candy, giggles and kiddos making gingerbread houses

saturday: all in one day...being lost on a run with people i enjoy. finding our way back to a road. asking for directions and in the reply hearing the words "gobblers knob. shared breakfast and later that day dinner together

sunday: church held around our table over a breakfast meal and for the great questions my boys and their friend asked

monday: letters

tuesday: working

wednesday: an afternoon in my kitchen baking treats for some i love and others i appreciate.

{19} work in this world

I am grateful that I have work in this world, that I find it hard sometimes, that I am able to move through my challenges, and know that my work is worth something.

{18} warmth

I am grateful for the simple fact that it is very cold outside, and I have the means and provisions to be warm inside my home, and inside my heart.

{17} tree

I have a grateful heart for : nut bread baked for neighbors (baking makes my house smell great!), snow storms, Christmas tree decorating, Christmas music, a fireplace... all of these and more...

{16} sovereign

I am grateful for the simplicity of a day spent in my own company. For Indian food for breakfast, for Earth House coffee, for finding "Transitions" by Julia Cameron at the thrift store, for cleaning Landon's room, for a warm house on a cold day.....

{15} mechanics

I am grateful for a fixed car.

{14} companionship

I am grateful that I can sing with tears in my eyes, my voice and my heart. I feel such companionship at Blythe's graduation and such honor to have sung for those midwives during their hand blessing.
I also felt such love and welcoming from Blythe's family, as she has shared that I will be her new neighbor, and everyone was so joyful about that, and able to express it to me! That felt so good to my heart.

{13} song

I am grateful for music in my life, in all the ways that it happens and doesn't happen. I know I will get to drum with my sisters soon, now doesn't seem to be the season!

week 2

thursday: christmas songs sun by 9 year olds, a little off key, but with much, much heart and then a few hours later for singing too loud in the car, on a curvy road, with my daddy and using microphones made of twizzlers and a water bottle.

friday: walking the streets of a new city at night with a hero

saturday: being toasted and loved, running and dancing and loving back

sunday: flowers in a vase on the windowsill given by little hands

monday: finding the most perfect christmas tree in the woods near our home. one that is perfectly too big and charliebrownish, but is truly the kind of tree i've wanted all my life.

tuesday: supportive running partners, who have become friends

wednesday: a day spent with teak, creating with our hands gifts to give and sharing a delicious meal and midday toast

Gratitude 353

Grateful for long drives in flat land that inspire me to dwell in the up and down landscape of my inner world. In contemplating love and attachment, had this thought come to me on my drive to Muncie...

Attachment to the love I share and experience with another human will likely lead to happiness.
Attachment to the story that relationship forms in my mind will likely lead to disappointment.

Gratitude 354

Grateful to Lisa for taking care of my kids before and after school.

{12} settle/warmth

I am grateful for soup on such a cold, cold day. I am grateful for friends who come and eat the soup with me. I am grateful for the new green sweater I found at the thrift store for $3.49. I am so glad to know warmth in many, many ways.

{11} safe

I am grateful that my car made it home OK. (I will be even more grateful if it costs very little to fix.)

{9} birth

I am grateful for celebrating my birthday by claiming a word. Also glad for the way I love facebook on my birthday! : ) So much fun to receive so much love!

Gratitude 355

thankful for a morning spent with emily and nora.

Gratitude 356

Grateful today for salt flour dough recipes easily accessible on the internet so that my Olivia and I could spend the morning making ornaments.

Gratitude 357

I'm grateful for a warm, quiet home on a cold, snowy saturday.

Gratitude 358

I'm grateful for time in the car with lisa before and after hot yoga on a cold night.

{9} arrival

I am so grateful that I work with such interesting people.

{8} grace

I am grateful for grace in hard situations.

Gratitude 359

I am grateful for work, even though it meant that I spent 9+ hours in a small (and hot) conference room crowded with 8 people, laptops and several small trees worth of paper. But I'm even more grateful for the ashtanga yoga class i found after work tonight!

{7} company

I am grateful that Landon still sometimes wakes up and walks into my bed in the middle of the night. It means that I wake up extra warm and cozy!

Gratitude 360

grateful for both of you and your vulnerability and strength and friendship. love y'all.

week 1

thursday: thanksgiving holiday

friday: shared coffee, even when alone

saturday: frequent flier miles

sunday: the first sunday in a season of waiting

monday: unexpected phone calls, even when you really don't like what is spoken

tuesday: still being deeply loved -- it's the still part that i'm most thankful for and moved by, because i simply do not understand why

wednesday: the ability i have to create a nest out of pillows and blankets, then crawl in and rest