Monday, March 19, 2012

40daythankz

I am behind...so another round up
65. Getting my cook on in the kitchen and crafting something new.
66. Having friends round for a meal
67. Feeling competitive on the lakefront and running 10 miles at a 8:40 pace while pushing Elle
68. Feeling the endorphin rush of a long run
69. Making a list and crossing things off
70. Soap making
71. Planting with Ellery
72. Elle asking me what Im going to be when I get big!
73. Having a busy enough weekend that I feel like I have done something by Monday morning
74. Up before dawn
75. Feeling a sense of connectedness oneness with a greater spirit. A greater sense of community.
76. Living simply. Being challenges to do it more. To live it out...there was a life verse for that at some point..Micah 6:8 getting back to it
77. Richard Rohr and his daily meditations challenging me to live deeply and simply ;)

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

40daythanks

61.Dinner with Jamie Blass, 62 client visits when it's 60 and sunny, 63 learning new skills and sharing your own (yeah skill swapping) 64 learning how to bless and encourage others

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

40 day thanks

I was doing so well and now I am so far behind. Here we go-
31. Kids who say thank you and please
32. Creation, getting my creative on
33. Reconnecting with friends from old
34. Babies that are sweet and cuddly that I can give back and skip the diaper change
35. Ideas. Desires. Hopes. Sparks.
36. People who spur you on and direct you toward those desires
37. Richard Rohr
38. Shane Claibourne
40. People who challenge me by living simply and inspiration ally
41. People who swim up stream
42. Friends who never leave your side. Continuity
43. My running shoes and where they take me
44. Learning new ways to live simply and love deeply
45. Co-ops and life sharing of any kids
46. Ottolenghi
47. Learning new ways to cook raw and be closer to my food
48. How the garden plans are shaping up.
49. A latte that tastes like it should (few and far between in this country, we all know I would be in heaven with a flat white!)
50. Single origin Counter culture coffee just appeeared at a store by me!
51. Getting my creative on in the kitchen
52. People who love my children and poor into them
53. New opportunities.
54. Conversations that make you dig deeper and find yourself more
55. Recycled up cycled 2nd hand everything!
56. Not creating waste-rain barrel and compost here we come
57. The warming weather
58. Putting away my snow boots
59. Parents who love me and my children
60. Christina
61. Friends across the miles who know me. Yes really know me
62. People who take risks
63. Angel investors
64. Ideas worth catching
65. Knowledge is power
66. Learning about new things
67. Chasing after my kids at the play ground
68. Whole foods on North
69. Metropolis coffee

Sunday, March 4, 2012

40daythanks

22. Avery asking for extra goodnight kisses. 23. My sis being back 24. My garmin 25. My new inspiring friend Meg 26. Saturday mornings in PJs 27. Open books 28. Family close by 29. Great friends who really get you 30. Change. It is possible

Thursday, March 1, 2012

40daythanks

19. Baby Avery turning two and insisting on me rocking him to sleep in my lovely lime storytime rocker.
20. Hot vinyasa yoga. Don't knock it to you have tried it and felt the detox effects of sweating and stretching.
21. My daughter gettin on my case to go running. Daily. Mom we need to go for a run, your stressed ;)