November 21, 2011- Contentment

Let your worries wash away, my girl.   Relax and enjoy the sun on your face and the sand in your toes.

~K

November 20, 2011- Waking Up Beautifully

“Mama?  Can we cuddle and watch the sunrise again this morning?”

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We did.  He and I, snuggled together, looking over the ocean as the sun began to light the morning sky. 

It was 7am, and already the day was perfect.

~K

November 19, 2011- Good Morning

Good Morning, Mama… I love you.

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When your day starts like this, it’s easy to find the high point.

~K

November 4, 2011- Peaceful Dreary

It’s dreary and yet peaceful.

There is no sun in the sky which usually drags me into a weird slump on days like these with their lack of light and excessive gray.

But as I sit and write, I can hear the wind outside and my boy singing himself to sleep.  My daughter observes this and excitedly asks me if this is finally a good day to dust off the kite in the garage who has been waiting several long months for a day just like this.

Fall is in full force here and I look out the window and see the rainbowed confetti falling with each new little gust of wind.

I’m not bothered by the blanket of leaves on my grass nor the gray in the sky today.   Rather, I’m enjoying this peaceful dreary and appreciating what it has to offer.

I will dance in the leaves and smile at the sky.   I will enjoy the cool air and appreciate the change.   We will fly kites and sing songs and notice only the good… and there is so much.

Thoughts for today….

~K

November 2, 2011- Happy Birthday

Though you can acknowledge the amazing feat of birth, you’re still never prepared for how the miracle of a beautiful healthy new person entering the world, and your family, and your heart still manages to take your breath away every time.

Happy Birthday, beautiful boy, Henry. 

I’m so grateful for you and love you with all the love a heart can hold.

~K

October 31, 2011- What’s Wrong?

I’m feeling a little grumpy day for a million and a half reasons.

I began to write and then to cook and then to do some yoga.

I remembered the last yoga class I went to and how this woman talked on and on about joy.   She looked so energized and thin and beautiful and well, joyful.

Beyond all of her external perfections, was what she chose to talk about and what came back to me today.   Rather than to say what’s wrong, why don’t we try to reverse things into a different form in that, what’s not wrong and therein find joy.

I came back to that today and focused on it.  I mentally began my list and within seconds realized that there is far more to be joyful about than to be grumpy.   And perhaps it is time I start to find that.

There is so much that is simply, not wrong.   On that is which I will focus.

~K

October 27, 2011 – Stardust…

 “Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do.  Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.  ~Alex Haley”

One of many special moments to be thankful for.

~K