Appreciations 4.187

Watching this morning’s fine powdered sugar snow morph into puffy cotton fluff snow.

Looking forward to a day of working and napping. I am so glad I can work in my pjs and take breaks of whatever length whenever I need to. 🙂

Coffee.

Appreciations 4.167 – the snow!

A lovely visit with Jeff & Maura last night. So great to have fun neighbors just a few steps away. A few really, really snowy steps. 😉 It was great to catch up and I got excellent tips on fun fruit, cabins in a box, and silent sneezing. 😀

IMG_3949The pretty view of snow on the fence when I walked home.

Fluffy light snow that makes shoveling doable. Sunshine that makes it necessary to stop shoveling long enough to take photos of the gorgeous shadows on the pristine snow. 🙂

sunny snow jan 2016Snowy shadows jan 2016

 

 

Appreciations 4.166 – snow day

Having a washing machine in my house! After 3 nights of Luna either bleeding or throwing up on my bed (all at 1 am!), I appreciate this more than I can adequately express. 😉

IMG_3940Snowy snowy snow day. It sure made driving an adventure, but it sure is pretty, too. I’m happy my errands were done by 2 pm. Drive safe all you who are still adventuring!

Gluten-free cream puffs from Seward Co-op. Mmmmmmm!

Appreciations 4.153 – trust

A lovely visit with Jeff yesterday. How fun – and still confusing 😉 – that he can just stop by. Pretty cool!

This morning’s little dusting of snow. How pretty!

trust

Another short coloring meditation. I like the idea of choosing a word for the day – what a fun experiment!

Appreciations 4.131

Enough snow to make it look like a real winter, but not so much it was a huge headache to traverse.

Working with a really excellent therapist. 🙂 One of the things I really appreciate is being reminded of how far I’ve come in reaching some of my goals. It’s nice to take a minute to enjoy that sense of progress, even while looking ahead to new goals and new growth.

Coloring things and making pirate cards! (Tinkerbell gave us the card making kit…that Tinkerbell sure does know how to pick the perfect gifts for us!) 😀

created happiness coloredpirate card

Appreciations 4.128

Snow! So pretty – and light enough that I could do the shoveling without needing too much rest afterward. I appreciate that even though my heart is pretty wonky, I’m still able to do most of the things I want and need to do. Don’t ask me to run up a bunch of stairs really fast, though. 😛

So fun to watch the livestream of Ellis performing on APHC today. She was amazing! 😀

Little kitty miracles… like both cats sleeping on me at the same time.

Little photographic miracles, like me managing to hold the phone far enough away to capture the little kitty miracles. 😉

Kitty socks!! Thanks, Debb! kitty socks

Appreciations 4.98: Thanksgiving…Business as usual!

Quiet morning sitting on the couch, watching the beautiful snow.

Busy afternoon cooking today’s meal with Mckenzie and Katie.

Lovely dinner with the kids and relaxing fun evening with our little motley crew, all of whom I love and appreciate so much. ❤

The funny feeling that I should somehow write something profound for a Thanksgiving Day gratitude post… which I then ignore in favor of going to bed early – forgetting even to post it on the big day! Hahaha. 😉

Appreciations 4.69

mountain o sugargluten free fritter

The highly improbable amount of happiness I get from things like this powdered sugar mountain that happened when I sifted it. 😛

Gluten-free apple fritters. OMG I am so happy I found this recipe and now I am going to eat apple fritters every day forever and ever.

Being outside for the first few flakes of SNOW! I’ve been loving this long, luxurious autumn (and hope it continues for awhile longer), but there is something deliciously exciting about those first snowflakes. 😀

Appreciations Year Three: Day 214

Finally getting some work done on a project that’s been hard to dig in to.

A wonderful rehearsal with the funny and fabulous Alison. So. Fun!

Avoiding one project by doing another. Hahaha! Hello newly organized desk drawers. 🙂

Okay, I can’t actually believe I am including this….but that snow sure is pretty. ❄ ❄ ❄ ❄ ❄

Rose quartz, striped socks, clean towels, raspberries, the sound of laughter, lilies of the valley, snark.