Day 3

When we feel grateful, we feel full-full of love, full of inspiration, full of ideas, and full of creative spirit !

Today I am so grateful for friends that inspire me!

Friends that inspire me to:

Be creative,

Be a mother and wife full of love and compassion,

Be accountable,

Be content exactly where I am in life.

Day 2

Early Bedtimes !

It is only 8:30 and I'm going to BED !

I'm thankful for a baby that sleeps so well that I'm able to enjoy a long 12 hour stretch too !

Gratitute (day 1) Nov 9th

It's never too late to start..... right?

Gratitude (Day 1) November 9th

Elizabeth Mitchell's New CD

Sunny Day




Her music is so lovely, it really helps me relax and enjoy the simple joys of my life in the morning. I"m thankful and grateful for her music.

Wishing you beauty and wonder in the simple and ordinary tasks of your day, today! (SOULEMAMA)

Baby book:

This is random, but i've been slowly working on pieces for miss Amalie's baby book and I came across these pictures, this was such a fun day at the park with her about a month ago. Just made my night seeing it again, can't wait to look back at these 5, months from now and 5 years from now. My baby is growing up so fast !

A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

As a commitment to myself I'm going to start entering my journal entries on my blog again. I'm all about community these days and finding what it means to me and the role it has on my family. The next few months of posts will be about just that.

Motherhood

Just another small paragraph that touched me deeply this week. Looking forward to entering my journal entries in here once this term is over.

There has never been a ruder awakening in my life about my desperate shortcomings other than motherhood. The huge responsibility of nurturing another life gets me thinking of all the ways I don’t measure up to whatever ideal it is I picture in my head. It’s like a magnifying glass over the things I’m incompetent in: cooking, keeping house, self-care, and more. But it is precisely because of this that motherhood offers us a way to grow into the person we truly are. We learn to be painfully honest of our weaknesses while we gratefully embrace our strengths. We daily stand on grace and nothing else if only to keep going in this rigorous task we have been given. The gift of authenticity. No more pretending to be more than who we are.

Domesticity

" We can thank the women before us who fought to ensure that domesticity was a choice and not something required of all women. Thanks be to them that these expectations are no longer required of us but are now an option among many that we may choose if we so wish. Free from the burden of expectations, we can now look to domestic arts and skills to create and express ourselves in our homes, giving full respect to the art and skill they encompass."

-Amanda Soule

I will write soon how this wonderful quote has had a large impact on my life this week, but until then I'll just leave you with this quote.