Crunchy Family Rising

A Year In Gratitude ~ Day 79

Daily striving for Beauty, Love and Joy, I am taking a moment each day for a year to focus on Gratitude.  I welcome you to join me in sharing your own gratitude in the comments.

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Today I am grateful for beginning to get organized.

A Year In Gratitude ~ Days 50 - 78

Daily striving for Beauty, Love and Joy, I am taking a moment each day for a year to focus on Gratitude.  I welcome you to join me in sharing your own gratitude in the comments.

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I realize I've been neglecting my blog, letting it collect dust. I apologize about that. I am happy to say I *have* been keeping up my daily gratitude, I just haven't posted them. They *are* written down in my calander though! I think today is a good day to get caught up here, so without further ado...

 

Day 50 - Cuddling with the kids and a pile of books.

Day 51 - Clementines- yum!

Day 52 - Knitting with the cat in my lap....when she behaves!

Day 53 - using Mike as a pillow

Day 54 - A lovely afternoon with my sister

Day 55 - Three day weekends.

Day 56 - My dishwasher (the machine, not my husband)

Day 57 - Never having "nothing to do"

Day 58 - My favorite teas

Day 59 - New pants that FIT!

Day 60 - Lending a helping hand to friends.

Day 61 - Times of plenty

Day 62 - Good playlists. Still not better than mix tapes, but close!

Day 63 - Making delicious new recipes even better

Day 64 - The totally exhausted feeling following a great workout

Day 65 - Late nights gaming with Mike

Day 66 - Getting our taxes done

Day 67 - An extra stop at the coffee shop

Day 68 - Getting stocked up *before* the snow hits

Day 69 - Staying in the same house for more than  a year

Day 70 - Being snowed in

Day 71 - Quiet moments of reflection

Day 72 - The awesome workout from shoveling snow

Day 73 - Lazy winter days

Day 74 - Not being snowed in

Day 75 - Getting our State tax return earlier than expected but just in time!

Day 76 - My van is fixed!

Day 77 - Getting back in the knitting groove.

Day 78 - Getting bills paid up

A year In Gratitude ~ Day 49

Daily striving for Beauty, Love and Joy, I am taking a moment each day for a year to focus on Gratitude.  I welcome you to join me in sharing your own gratitude in the comments.

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Today I am grateful for having home internet access.

 

In case you couldn't tell by the back-posts this week, our internet connection at home was off for a little while. Yuck. It's back now though and I'm extrememly grateful.

A Year In Gratitude ~ Day 48 (Tuesday)

Daily striving for Beauty, Love and Joy, I am taking a moment each day for a year to focus on Gratitude.  I welcome you to join me in sharing your own gratitude in the comments.

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On Tuesday I was grateful for making a dent in the mountain of laundry.

A Year In Gratitude ~ Day 47 (Monday)

Daily striving for Beauty, Love and Joy, I am taking a moment each day for a year to focus on Gratitude.  I welcome you to join me in sharing your own gratitude in the comments.

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On Monday I was grateful for favorite books.

Favorite books, like old friends. Always there, always sure to entertain, to offer a little escape when it's needed.

A Year In Gratitude ~ Day 46 (Sunday)

Daily striving for Beauty, Love and Joy, I am taking a moment each day for a year to focus on Gratitude.  I welcome you to join me in sharing your own gratitude in the comments.

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On Sunday I was grateful for fresh calendars.

I admit it, I love starting a new calendar each year. A blank book, a year full of potential, a year to fill with special days, memories and moments.

A Year In Gratitude ~ Day 45 (Saturday)

Daily striving for Beauty, Love and Joy, I am taking a moment each day for a year to focus on Gratitude.  I welcome you to join me in sharing your own gratitude in the comments.

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Saturday I was grateful for family movie night.

A while back we did away with regular tv watching and video games, and it's made a huge difference in our home. It's more peaceful now, and I'm less stressed and no longer have the backfiring crutch of using the tv as a babysitter so I can get something done. That was always the logic, but it never worked out in my favor.

I'm not really a big tv person, I prefer books and active passtimes. I would have been happy to have gotten rid of the television years ago, but you see, I married a gamer geek with a passion for anime. Getting rid of the tv would have been like throwing out my beloved books. So, we have learned to compromise. Our tv no longer lives in the family room, it lives tucked away in our office. We bring it out once a week to watch a movie together as a family.

Now movies are no longer something taken for granted. They are a special family event, looked forward to throughout the week. Saturday evenings Daddy brings the tv out into the family room and the kids know it's almost time. We make popcorn on the stove, hot cocoa from scratch, huddle up on the couch together. The lights turn off, the movie starts and we enjoy the time together just as much as we enjoy the film.

 

A Year In Gratitude ~ Day 44

Daily striving for Beauty, Love and Joy, I am taking a moment each day for a year to focus on Gratitude.  I welcome you to join me in sharing your own gratitude in the comments.

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Today I am grateful for homemade cinnamon rolls.

 

So indulgent. So deliscious. So amazing. So easy to make.  Yum.

A Year In Gratitude ~ Day 43

Daily striving for Beauty, Love and Joy, I am taking a moment each day for a year to focus on Gratitude.  I welcome you to join me in sharing your own gratitude in the comments.

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Today I am grateful for week-long marathons of Lord Of The Rings.

 

Mike and I are spending part of our evenings this week watching the entire LOTR trilogy. The director's cut.  with snacks and wine and knitting. Oh yes. My inner geek is very happy with this.

A Year In Gratitude ~ Day 42

Daily striving for Beauty, Love and Joy, I am taking a moment each day for a year to focus on Gratitude.  I welcome you to join me in sharing your own gratitude in the comments.

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Today I am grateful for the words "Daddy's home!"

 

These words provide relief when I'm having a rough day, a smile when I'm missing my best friend, a transition for our family, beginning our end of the day rhythms. Lovely words, welcome home daddy!