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I am grateful that my daughters are who they are. I am grateful for water. I am grateful for distractions. I am grateful for ‘nothing’.

  Well, I somehow managed to skip a day but I caught it. I was wondering why suddenly there were two days left until the eve of my birthday – when there are 3 according to the calendar in front of me. I will admit, simple math foils me sometimes. Actually, it is more thatContinue reading “day 27: learning to count among other things”

  All I will say is, today I am grateful for life.

  I am grateful for… 1. morning 2. stillness 3. writing until early morning 4. light

  I am grateful for uncontrollable giggles and my daughters’ laughter. It’s contagious. I am grateful for sunshine and snow. I am grateful for family. I am grateful.

  I am grateful for being forced to think about what I am grateful for on days, though rare, I do not feel like I have one positive thing to say – grateful for my story and that I am willing to give it up. – grateful for silence and stillness that allows for theContinue reading “day 23: being grateful for gratitude, giving up my story and silence (aka when the crit ick is forced to shut up)”

Today I am grateful for a funny game that my friend Michelle started on her FB page. It is a take off of the normal “tell me how you met me as a reply to this post”… instead, it asks you to lie about how you first met someone. It turned into  a funny andContinue reading “day 22: play, patience and flower surprises”

today, I am grateful. I am now in the ‘habit’ of getting up in the morning and writing down four things that I am grateful for in my life. It suddenly occurred to me this morning that it has been 22 days since I started this (mostly because 22 was staring me back in theContinue reading “day 21: dance like no one is watching”

today I am grateful for: 1. spontaneous strawberry sundaes in -12C weather 2. moments that make me think and breathe 3. moments that break through walls 4. moments that break down old ideas

  today I am grateful for 1. paint and a blank canvas. 2. neighbours who came to my rescue yesterday 3. waking up to good news 4. poetry   no explanations today, just gratitude

today I am grateful for.. 1. putting aside my shy self and jumping into situations that if I listened to my ‘crit eek’ I would never have even dreamed of doing. 2. freaky dreams and having someone willing to listen to them 3. being inspired by a friend  to plan a date night for myself. 4.Continue reading “day 18: being bold or at least not letting the crit eek get the best of me”

    Well… today I am grateful for having a living alarm clock. I slept in, didn’t hear my alarm go off once – my daughter luckily came in and woke me up. I also woke up to a beautiful pre-dawn sky and saw a spectacular sunrise this morning on my way to work. ItContinue reading “day 17”