I’m very excited to begin this month with a new fun project. I was invited by my good friend Christina otherwise known as 22 limes to participate in a photo a day for December with daily prompts. I just need to add that Christina is so very good at helping to keep my creative fires burning because she has wonderful ideas and very often invites me to join her. This first day of December is focusing on GRATITUDE. While I spent all of November writing down each day my gratitude I’m so happy to begin the first day of December like I ended the very last day of November…with great THANKS. I’m hoping my littlest and only girl will also be participating with me in this project, I have invited her and she was very excited but this is outside her comfort. She is so brave.
I went to bed last night with whirling and swirling thoughts. What amazing thing might I share through an image that would explain my gratitude for today’s prompt. And wouldn’t you know as I sat at our kitchen counter sipping my hot coffee that motorcycle man faithfully brews for us each morning, I already felt blessed so very blessed to begin my day. I was alive! I was breathing! I was drinking the best coffee possible, the kind made with LOVE. I sat and filled in my December calendar with all this month’s photo prompts and I also paid our water bill. I’m happy we have the money to pay our water bill which was very reasonable and our usage was down from last month which is always nice to see. And as I sat at the kitchen counter in my most favorite chenille moon robe that I have had since we first married in 1993 I looked across the dining table and the morning light was so beautiful so I took a picture of it. This is my moment! Nothing spectacular really but as the saying goes, “if you are happy with what you already have, there is no want for more.” (Or something very like that) I’m happy that we have these creative orange walls around us, the chips of paint on the corners show life is lived here, kind of hard sometimes. The plant in the center of the table was Jerry’s plant at the office, when he passed on it almost passed on so I took it home and wanted to give it back its life, now I can’t part with it, it’s a piece of Jerry at the heart of our dining table. I love the runner that I got from cost plus, Austin noticed last night as we face timed him (another blessing) he says “I like your runner mom” I mean, gosh, that’s enough to make a mom proud, he even knows it’s called a runner not to mention he noticed something new in our familiar home! I love the pictures we have hung on the wall, they all hold a meaning, either art from others or family images. It’s all such good stuff….none of which matches but I’m so OK with that too.
Today Abbie texted me this "I'm grateful for my friends" She just happened to be dressed alike with one of them today and she sent me that picture.
