Resolutions

1. Simplify.

2. Streamline and focus on the big rocks.

3. Read one book a month.

(Downgraded from one book a week -- scarcity of time...sigh!)

4. Master at least 2 recipes a month.

5. Repeat 1 and 2.

more to come...

Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist. There are still those that lie beyond our capacity and our imagination. From time to time, when a piece of music no one has ever written, or a painting no one has ever painted, or something else impossible to predict, fathom, or yet describe takes place, a new feeling enters the world. And then, for the millionth time in the history of feeling, the heart surges, and absorbs the impact. - Nicole Krauss

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. -- S. Covey

The thought manifests as the word;
The word manifests as the deed;
The deed develops into habit;
And habit hardens into character.
So watch the thought and its ways with care,
And let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings. - Buddhist quote

Small Blessings


Dear Lord, it's such a hectic day

With little time to stop and pray

For life's been anything but calm

Since You called on me to be a mom

Running errands, matching socks

Building dreams with building blocks

Cooking, cleaning, and finding shoes

And other stuff that children lose

Getting lids on bottled bugs

Wiping tears and giving hugs

A stack of last week's mail to read

So where's the quiet time I need?

Yet when I steal a minute, Lord

Just at the sink or ironing board

To ask the blessings of Your grace

I see then, in my small one's face

That you have blessed me

All the while

And I stop to kiss

That precious smile

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” - Epicurus



Be blessed in all things...

“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.”-Jim Rohn

Today I'm happy and grateful because I...

• slept in
• stayed home, it's 48 degrees outside
• am not affected by Black Friday (sale!sale!sale!) anymore
• ate a lot of leche flan
• get to watch the boys do their skateboarding tricks
• chatted endlessly with a friend