We've had a simply wonderful five days, together as a family, celebrating a holiday, welcoming winter, enjoying life.
We have so much to be thankful for.
My family. The small one, the large one, the ones we see weekly, the ones we see far too little of... we are blessed by each of them, their generosity and unconditional love. So many models of lives well lived.
Our health. My children are strong and sure footed. My husband and I are able bodies and can run and play with them. We can work and clean and build and dream big dreams.
My dog. She gets her own line. Ten years with this wonderful creature. How did we get so lucky??
Our friends. This ever-widening circle of humans who I love. Like-minded people who are fun to be around, who care and support and help; old friends with shared, treasured memories, and new ones who will listen to all my old stories told again. Friends whose children become part of our tribe, the next generation of humans for me to love. I treasure them all.
Music. I am grateful to be able to sing, to make music with others once a week, to share music with my children and give them piano lessons even when it is hard to make them practice.
Running. Even if I'm not doing a lot of it right now, I am grateful for the focus of it, for the goals I have achieved, for the way those goals push me to get up in the morning and get outside and take in my world in a different, deeper-breathing sort of way.
Our home. It is a lot of work, this old place, trying to keep her old bones in good shape. But then we discover beautiful hardwood in the bedroom and I fall in love all over again. It is a good, strong house that keeps us warm and dry and we are lucky for the opportunity to care for it.
Our dreams. I am so grateful to be in a place in life where I am comfortable enough to dream of things like lake houses and second careers and what I want to do next with my time. I may or may not realize any of these dreams but just the having of them tells me that my life is good enough, secure enough, to let me think beyond survival and we are so lucky to be in this place. I do not take anything for granted.
Photo post with play by play recounting of our fabulous weekend: coming soon.
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