22 years with the best son a mama could want. What a funny, fascinating, fabulous journey it’s been! 6 years with the best Ruby an Aunt Dinana could want … even if she does call me Diana now! 😉 So many good birthdays in April! ❤
A chance to catch up with Alison today. It’s so nice to connect with friends! 🙂
The Good News Network, for continually reminding me that there are so many good things in the world. Like this video!
Waking up this morning to find this funny valentine from Katie on my door! 😀
Super fun brunch with Laura this morning. What a great start to the day!
A good, deep resting day.
Just finished Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore and The Wee Free Men. What fun stories!! Thank you for the perfect book recommendations, Sarah!
Had a super fun hang-out and rehearsal with Sarah this morning. Next week’s show is going to be So. Much. Fun! 😀
A surprise bonus hangout with the kids. We finally got together to do our holiday baking… just for a different holiday than we’d expected. Haha! 
More shortness and sweetness…
Awesome coaching session this morning. I love love love my job.
Coloring.
A surprise visit from Katie this evening. Lucky me!
A perfectly perfect Saturday! Getting little taskies done, like clearing out my office supply drawer! I know I don’t need 10 pairs of scissors, 30 or 40 highlighters and dry erase markers, and 3,000 extra pens. And guess what — Katie and Cina needed exactly that many of those things! 😉
After getting little taskies and some work done I headed out with the kids to my folks’ annual church bazaar. So fun to catch up with those friendly people!
Then a brilliant and wonderful dinner with Sarah and Ida. Sarah made the most delicious lentil pasta with crazy-good spinach-garlic-something delicious sauce. Yum! And what a blissful evening of catching up, playing with Ida, and cuddling with cats. ❤ Even Reggie came over to say hi and be petted — a first for me! I know enough to be deeply, deeply honored. 🙂
Sunshine and mild weather. I will take it as long as we can get it!
Working on fun little projects and taskies. I decided not to work on work today (what!?!) and instead did entertaining and satisfying things like adding new themes to firefox, gmail, and chrome. I also did more clean-up work on files – this time it was my google drive files (have hundreds of them). It’s so fun to get rid of unneeded stuff. Plus, I got winter stuff out and sorted through that and did a few more little cleaning projects, too. Things feel lighter and lighter. I love it. ❤
Getting to spend time with Katie again this morning. That’s 3 or 4 times this week. What a treat!
Finally getting time to write out the lyrics for some Earthtones songs. It’s an important step for me in memorizing songs in other languages. With our first show coming up in a few weeks, it was high time I got to this!
Writing a testimonial for someone I appreciate, like, and admire. What a lovely opportunity to reflect on the best qualities of that person!
Remember that thing about me wanting to find fun in as many situations as possible? Well, it turns out that the impound lot is one of those places it really does take some determination — especially when you’re there for the 2nd time in 3 days! 😛
Today while we were waiting and hoping that the jump start would work so Cina could get her car out of the lot (yes, this is still from the street cleaning this week and no, the jump start didn’t do the trick), I was standing outside feeling cold and a looking for something fun and distracting, so I decided to use my feet to round up nearby rocks and make a smiley face in the parking lot.
Shortly, a security guy drove over and told me I needed to be over near my car, so I pointed to the ground and told him I was just making a smiley face. He laughed and looked a little confused, so I told him about my appreciation journal and looking for something fun at the impound lot. He sort of grinned at me and said yes, it was okay to take a photo before I went back over to the car. So that was fun! I wonder what effect it had on him!?! Hahaha!
Even though the day didn’t really go the way we’d planned, Katie and Cina and I did get to hang out a lot (mostly AT the lot – hahaha), but then we had dinner and watched a movie together, so it was a really nice day in the end.
Lovely meeting with the folks at my parents’ residence — looking forward to doing some fun shows out there!
Getting to spend the whole afternoon and evening with Katie! Feels like such a treat! ❤
My super clever book light solution – balancing my phone in my glasses case with the flashlight on. Genius, right?! 😛
A lovely, Delaney-ful day, nicely bookended by a morning visit and an evening concert. 😀
Sitting under the table coloring with Ruby (well, my job was primarily to make sure Katie and Cina didn’t see the work in progress…). 😉
Pink polka dot presents from Ruby!
A little time with the kids today. I sure am one lucky mama. ❤
Finding a few minutes for a short walk with my girl today (Hahaha – because we’re both short…) 😛 How sweet to spend some time with her! ❤
Amazing sights on our walk, like this magnificent tree and this little glimpse of flamingo love. 😉 Oh, how I love this neighborhood!
Life on Emoticon/Emoji Alley. 🙂 ✨ ^_^ ✨ 😀
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