gratitude day#18 - It's working

Hi friends! I don't know if you've been keeping up with a daily gratitude list of your own, but I'm here to tell you, it works. I have never been so consistently happy/content than I have for the past few weeks. I had one blah-ish day, but it was just pms hormones (my wonderful period tracker app confirmed). (Sorry, is that too much sharing?) I just want you to know, that by looking for the standout moments from your day, you gain such perspective. The little things that used to bug you go unnoticed, and the small, amazing moments, that may have gone overlooked in your hurried, busy life, now get accounted for.
Here are three things I'm grateful for today:

• Having a delicious dinner and amazing conversation with two dear friends
• An impromptu play date with one of my favourite mommas
• the gift of time - working part time has a financial cost obviously, but I never, ever, regret my decision - my days feel so full and fun just watching my daughter explore her world. 

gratitude day#17

It's late, so I'm going to keep this short and sweet - but I hope you found some great moments interspersed throughout your day! Here's my top 3 of the day:

• Spending the morning in the autumn sun running through a park with my loves. (These crisp, sunny days mixed with trees ablaze in colour are my absolute favourites.)
• Coming home from grocery shopping to find that my hubby had cleaned up the house, including washing the floors. Seriously amazeballs.
• Dinner with my in-laws. I am particularly grateful that I love the company of my in-laws because I know, from chatting with friends, that this can be a rare thing.

rad gratitude day#16

Well today was definitely the most fun I've ever had running. It was a 5km run, put on by Color Me Rad  and I can't wait to do it again next year. As you're running you get cheered along, blasted with colour, motivated by high fives and when you cross the finish line the field turns into a giant dance party where colour rains upon you. It was a giant love fest and so much fun that it felt like the easiest 5 km I've ever run. I'm still wearing my rad tattoo because that's just how I roll.

Three things I'm grateful for today would be:

• Having such a fun time running with my amazing friend Tricia - who I was so proud of for clocking in 5 km in 31 minutes when she hardly ever runs! How rad is that?
• wonderful messages of friendship from my little work family
• my daughter having her most consistently happy day from start to finish that we've ever witnessed

Happy Friday! Gratitude day #15

Hello friends! What are you up to for your weekend?
I'm psyched about doing this fun event tomorrow with an awesome gal.
Have you been keeping up with this gratitude challenge? To be honest, I have been noticing that my days seem brighter since doing it. I feel like I take stock of my day's standout moments, both big and small, which helps boost my outlook.
Here's three things I'm grateful for today:

• Whenever I get the text I look forward to everyday from my hubby, those magical three words: "On my way." And to see him walk through the door, early from work, carrying take-out, was just the icing on the cake.
• walking into my daughter's room after her nap, she smiles, waves and says "Hi Momma!" It really makes me swoon.
• the happiness that lives between these walls. 

gratitude day#14

Hello friends! Did you get out to enjoy the sun? It was one of those gorgeous autumn days: sunny, crisp and the crunch of leaves underfoot.
Here are three things I found myself grateful for today:

• The sun. After a drizzly dark week, the sun's triumphant return felt, well, triumphant
• The crew I work with - I would not hesitate one second to say I work in the best department in our company: a bright, funny, cohesive team who get the job done and make it enjoyable
• the fact that my little one walked up to me, plugging her nose, waving her hand furiously back and forth, telling me something stinks....when in actuality it was her (diaper)

gratitude day#13

It's not surprising that this is day 13, it felt like a #13 kind of day - rainy...nearly two hours stuck in traffic because some buddy, whilst rubbernecking at a film crew shooting a movie roadside, (who would have ever thought that would be distracting along a highway?) steered his car in the direction of his eyeballs, right into a ditch. But I digress - these posts are supposed to be about silver linings:

• having an amazing conversation with someone full of those "AHA!" moments
• buying a coffee and a trashy magazine - because sometimes you just need a good dose of crappola - my personal favourite is the magazine's candid photos of stars behaving "just like us" - Look! Katie Holmes is carrying her own groceries! And can it be? Gwyneth Paltrow pumps her own gas? Well would you look at that, they really are just. like. us.  Do you ever notice that you never see a photo of their bank statement in the "just like us" section?
• Of course my favourite moment of the day is walking through the door (not superman style, actually opening the door first) - and hearing little legs sprinting towards me and tiny(yet powerful) arms thrown at full speed around my neck....the best.  

gratitude day#12

Hello friends! Have you kept up with your own gratitude challenge? We're more than halfway through it, so you can add that to your list! Here's three things I'm grateful for today:

• hearing my daughter say three new words today: Bear, car and outside. (Just to let you know,  I did triple check outside and there was no bear in my car. )
• having an afternoon visit with dear friends
• my hubby doing the nighttime routine with our gal so that I can go on a wonderful walk in the rain