Gratitude Journal........day 3

I am grateful today for great women in my life.  I never had close girlfriends growing up, and I never thought I would have that or need that.  I was at a baby shower years ago and overheard some women talking about how they needed their girlfriends, how women need other women, and so on.  I remember going home and telling Shawn how sad I was for those women, that they probably didn't have great relationships with their husbands.  It's so funny how life does that to us.  It's all so black and white till you experiences a new side of life and then you realize how judgmental and wrong you were.  I see now, nearly 5 years later, the wisdom those women had.  I still have a great relationship with my husband, but I also need women in my life more then I ever have before.  I actually need time with my girls to talk or walk or vent or dream or analyze.  It makes me feel validated, important, loved and good enough.  I do have an amazing circle of women in my life and I love you all so much and am so grateful to all of you.

The Gratitude Journal.....Day 2

Today I am grateful for fresh laundry smelling towels.  Nothing like wrapping up in that after a long hot shower!

Photos of my boys

        

       

The Gratitude Journal....Day 1

I am grateful for my mind. It is the mind that kept me up past three last night, but it is also the mind that organizes my home, learns new things easily, enjoys challenges and works hard at times to manage 20 things at once. What an amazing thing to have a healthy mind, and I am so grateful for that.

Average

I took my blog down because I was finding myself without enough Kodak moments in my life to post. I was not sewing amazing projects, taking amazing photos, cooking amazing meals,

scrapping amazing pages, or taking my kids to amazing places. I was feeling just average. I was feeling inadequate and average and who would want to check out an average, inadequate blog. Then I discovered there is something cathartic about blogging that I did not recognize before I was awoken to my averageness. I don't want to have just Kodak moments. Life is not Kodak moments. It is work, and trials, blessing and growth. I wanted to come back and blog about my wonderfully average life. A blog is like a journal only interactive and people can actually validate or set your straight and that feels pretty great! (rhyming not intentional). So the blog is back. My average blog is back!

Orange

One of Shawn's favorite things and one of mine.  Can you guess which is which?

cellulite and a shorty robe