A great article, about framing your life with gratitude...

I came across this today, and it really sums up why I feel gratitude is an important practice:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-baraz/frame-it-with-gratitude_b_484722.html

And here is a great video of his mother speaking about the experience:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRbL46mWx9w

"And my life is truly blessed." A powerful statement to be certain.

For the arms of my husband...

who took the time this morning to hold me in them for quite a few moments before waking up and getting ready to go to work.

Family and the Farmer's Market

I am grateful that I was able to reconnect with a branch of my family I haven't seen in years, and yet feel as though we've never been separated.

I am grateful for the joys of the Farmer's Market, and experiencing it with my eldest. And wondering why it took me so long to get to one around here.

I am grateful for things like violet jelly, fresh veggies, being able to support the local farmers, fresh honey, and the lovely musician who entertained us in the heat of the day.

Good Conversation

I am grateful for good conversation - the kind that stirs your soul, gets you thinking, allows you to be heard and to share your voice, and leaves you feeling as though you are flying.

I am grateful for being able to sit outside in the sun and feel the breeze, to laugh and converse, and hold a sleeping toddler in my arms while listening to the stories of my eldest.

For Perspective

Things aren't always as we think they are. We can never truly be in another person's mind, but we can try to understand, and extend compassion for the way they see things. I do my best to try and see things from another point of view. I may not understand their whys, but I might shed light on something I hadn't noticed.


I am grateful that I can look at things and situations, from multiple angles. It keeps me in check.

It grateful for the view...

For today is a new day...

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today...

I am grateful for being able to watch my youngest sleep, to feel her breathing, and take in her scent. She is growing so fast... her "baby-ness" is fading into child.

I am grateful for being able to snuggle with my eldest and listen to her reading to me, while feeling her next to me.

What an amazing weekend!

I am grateful for a weekend filled with fun, high tea, lots of sweets, lots of fun, good food, and family.

I am grateful that I'm alive to live another year.

I am grateful for supportive and loving friends, and their lovely birthday wishes.

Choices

"You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice." ~Steven D. Woodhull

What will your choice be today?

I am grateful that I have a lot of choices. I am grateful that I have family and friends who support these choices.