DianaK

Appreciations 4/5-4/11: A very long list with very little exposition

Minneapolis sights: A full-on clown walking a dog down the street, yarn bombs of epic proportions, a hand-painted van with these words: Vehicle of Expression. 💜

Chalk art and bubble magic.

Easter egg fun.

Unscheduled weekend days.

Warm weather.
Colder weather.
SNOW!
GREEN GRASS!

New family members. Welcome to the world, Owen! ❤️

Lilac buds.

Clean floors.

Luna Balloona.

Sir Reginald Butterbritches.

New family members. Welcome to the family, Josie!

Amy Poehler.

Terry Pratchett.

PG Wodehouse.

Ida snuggles.
Ida wiggles.
Ida giggles.

Delaney dinner.

Salpica salsa.

My wonderful kids.
My wonderful parents.
My wonderful siblings.
My wonderful cousins.

Coffee.

Ahahaha fun with words “… blessed with the twin gifts of idiocy and misfortune…” (Thanks, Eoin Colfer)

Coffee warnings.

Twitchy notice 2017

Sunshine.

Brilliantly talented, generous, and funny friends.

DianaK

Appreciations 4/1: Geeky things, goofy things, getting rid of things.

The jump to light speed – right here in Minneapolis!

TFW you’re in a hurry to get out of the house so you grab everything you’ll need…And then get to the car to find that you not only remembered your water, phone, and wallet, but also your 25-foot tape measure. You know, just in case… 😉

More fun with our window art shadows – leaves on the tv! ❤️

Day one of my April downsizing game (thanks for the inspiration, Alison!)

DianaK

Appreciations 3/31: The precious, the pretty, the practical, and the preternatural.

My dearest, darlingest Pam, who inspires me and makes me laugh daily, and who as the first person to show me how any situation can include fun. (Just ask yourself, “How could this be fun and easy?”) One of the best lessons I have ever learned! ❤️

Ida’s language right now!
Bellanean = jelly bean
Ephanant = elephant
Meatfoaf = meatloaf
and best of all…Allelcome = you’re welcome. 😄wall art 3:2017

Beautiful art by Sarah and by my Grampa. 💚

Half-sheet baking pans that double as lego sorting pans. Of course.

My magic toaster, who once again popped my toast out of the right side and into the left!!! I cannot explain how happy this makes me.

DianaK

Appreciations 3/26-3/30: Diana and the Beautiful, Wonderful, No Bad, Very Good Day. (Plus a few other things from before that.)

The aforementioned BWNBVG Day
Starting the day with Katie at Carley Coffee!Carley Coffee 3:2017

Small vehicles carrying precious coffee beans.

Completing several tasks that have been on my to-do list for more than a YEAR!

Fun socks.

Walking around Uptown on my first 10,000+ step day in at least 6 months.

Cina’s good news! Plus her silliness. Heck.

Window art 3:2017Window art with Sarah & Ida. I love our ever-evolving, communal art!

Dragons!

Sarah’s way with words. Did you know that croissants are a donut-adjacent food? 😆

Ida’s breathtaking bedtime performance, ending with a mash-up medley of classic songs – Itsy Bitsy Spider, You Are My Sunshine, ABCs, and Old MacDonald. Brilliant!! 💚

Other things
From now on, any day that I am neither prepping for nor undergoing a colonoscopy shall be considered a Very. Good. Day. 😉

Jeff, who got up at WTF o’clock to transport me to the procedure and keep my company while waiting. And my folks for babysitting me after the procedure.

The med student who rubbed my back and patted my shoulder during the procedure (which took longer and was more challenging than usual for a variety of reasons).

Me, for trying to do Laughter Yoga during the procedure. Even sedated I am hilarious. (And Jody for introducing me to the practice in the first place!) Ha ha ha ha ha! ❤️

Looking forward to next week….with NO doctor appointments for the first time in several months. Wonder what I’ll do with all my spare time!

DianaK

Appreciations 3/20-3/25: ABCDs

Apples, art, aardvarks (because double a’s! Oh, and llamas, too, then because double l’s!).

Bubbles, breathing, boundaries.

Coffee, coffee, coffee. Plus chocolate.

Daily dose of Duncan delights 😀 including, but not limited to…
• dancing & doodling
• getchu me & getchu you
• laughing & lake-walking
• rabbit-spotting and reading
• singing & silly-ing
• wandering & wondering

💚💙💜❤️💛

DianaK

Appreciations 3/17-3/19: All the meals with all the people, walking carrots, lego rainbows.

So many marvelous meals…all in one day.
Beautiful brunch with the brilliant Alison and Amy.
Lovely lunch with my darling daughter.
Fabulous Friday fish feed with the delightful Duncans and the charismatic Korpi-Dean couple.

(Though I might be alliterating a little too much….) 😛

Sarah’s infectious laugh and occasionally inappropriate humor. Chesty McBigRack. Ah hahahahaha! 😝

The wonderful folks who came to help me film the kickstarter video. You all rock, Kristin, Carol, Michael, Nick, and Sarah!

Katie and Cina, for lending us their apartment for the video shoot. 😊

Ida dancing. Anywhere. Anytime. 💜

Carrot legs.

Lego rainbows.

DianaK

Appreciations 3/14-3/16: Catrobatics, spiralizer & toddler workouts, sleep constructing

Toby’s slo-mo post-nap descent from the chair. Catrobatics!

I love funny conversations – and that I have so many of them. 😀
1. When I called to schedule my tax appt, the first date avbl was the day I’m scheduled for a colonoscopy. The scheduler and I laughed and laughed about how given the choice between working on my taxes and a colonoscopy, I picked the latter. Hahaha!

2. At my infusion appt, my nurse and I were discussing my myriad bruises and she suggested that perhaps they’d come about due to my secret nighttime construction job. Sleep constructing! Bwahahaha!

Sweet potato surprise!Scrumptious spiralizer meal Sarah and I made. A delicious sweet potato noodle dish, a decent upper body work out (srsly. sweet potatoes are NOT interested in being spiralized.), and surprising looking sweet potato sculptures resulted.

My new personal trainer, Ida! Loves being chased, lifted, twirled, danced with, and bounced. Workouts have never been so fun! ❤️

Remembering things. I made an unscheduled grocery run, so didn’t have my list. I still managed to get 13 of the 14 things that were on the list. #win #everythingisagame