“All of our dreams can come true….if we have the courage to pursue them.”
~Walt Disney
Sweet child, may you always dream big. May you always feel confident, brave, self assured and strong, my little one. And may I always have the knowledge, strength and ability to do my job to help you get there.
~K
I took my little girl a
Thirty little piggies.
Three smiling faces.
Three little girls feeling so very special on a Saturday morning.
Flowers on their toes. Pinks and purple polishes.
Perfect Little Piggies.
~K
And so my crabbiness continued as the gray outside wore on. I wasn’t feeling much positivity and without the help of some warm air and the sunshine, everything seemed to be going in the wrong direction and I needed to shake it.
Then there were three people… in no particular order and none of which I know well, certainly nowhere near well enough for any of them to know my gray day funk. Each of them at separate moments in the day said the kindest words… each about something different, but each to me.
And wouldn’t you know? It makes the largest difference.
I will try this today- it’s amazing the power of a positive word. And to think it costs nothing and requires such minimal effort.
Thank you to these three people, who without knowing it, brightened someone else’s day with their goodness.
~K
It’s a cold and rainy day today. Winter is approaching and quicker than I’d like. I’m a hot weather kind of girl. This cold gray yuck does nothing for my mood and really gets to me… not in a good way.
Today though I found a fix. My little guy and I braved the elements and went to the store for all the ingredients we needed to make vegetable beef stew. Homemade.
We came home and he pulled up a stool. We talked while I chopped and he ate fresh vegetables. We browned the meat and deglazed the pan. We added and poured, tasted and stirred and then we sat back and waited, simply enjoying the comforting aroma that began to sear pleasantly through our home.
The rainbow of vegetables simmering on the stove, a reminder of dinner waiting for us, of the promise of an evening where the four of us could reunite at our kitchen table to laugh and to talk about our days over this deliciousness- certainly proved to be a wonderful high point of an otherwise gray day.
~K
A few weeks ago, my daughter, who is six, for the first time noticed that two women friends of ours were a couple. We’ve been friends with these ladies for some time, but I guess she saw things differently now because she found it odd. She told them so. To their face. With me standing there. While this was certainly an uncomfortable moment, my friend and I laughed it off with no hard feelings, yet I found myself sad as she walked away.
What saddened me is this was the point I knew was coming. I knew that eventually society would spill over… the ‘norms’, the stereotypes, the ‘oddities’.
Well, no time like the present, right? We sat down, my little girl and I and we had a talk. It’s a talk I hope she and her brother both engrain into her soul and what I will share today. It will become your character, this lesson, I told her.
Judge people based only upon WHO they are, for what KIND of person they are, for what kind of FRIEND they are, NEIGHBOR they are and based only upon their CHARACTER.
Easy enough, really and the rest simply doesn’t matter.
If my children learn nothing else after living in this home with us, I do hope this is a lesson that they carry with them forever.
It would make me proud.
~K
I love days off school.
Cuddles in bed until we are ready to stop. Running in the yard with no worries about bedtime or packed lunches. No one to answer to. Nowhere to be.
Just my babies and me.
Nothing makes me more relaxed or content. I absolutely love it.
~K
For Fall. Halloween. Pumpkins. Tricks. Treats. For all of the goodness and giggles that went along with this wonderful weekend.
Too easy…. and isn’t that wonderful?
~K
