dateline: oakville, ontario, canada @ 9:17pm on 22 september 2014
weather outside: a cool 12C - feeling crisp
mood inside: quiet with just me and chloé at home
drinking a glass of perrier, no ice
eating a bowl of berries: black and blue
embracing the feeling that this house is starting to feel like home
enjoying the delivery of new couches from crate & barrel, delivered this morning
cooking minimally. with just two of us at home there is a lot of winging it!
trying to keep up with my supplement and medication schedule. an overhelming 37 pills a day!
missing claire at university, cole in boarding and caden in temagami.
feeling like i'm on the edge of something new and exciting.
listening to my intuition, and finally giving myself permission to pay attention and act on what it is telling me.
watching "the voice" is on in the background. i love this time of year, the start of the new tv season. i wonder which will survive? almost a guarantee it is not the one i fall in love with watching!
reading jan karon's new book "somewhere safe with somebody good" - it is so nice to be back in mitford, north carolina again!
wearing my new oversized olive-drab sweater. my sister will be horrified! :D
packing a box of school books for consignment. the forms have been filled. i just have to put it in the truck and head off to the store.
planning to sell the suburban. i think. i'm vascilating. not good. just one more project.
stopping all of the second guessing and negative self talk. it's time to leave all the f***ing drama to those creating it and not engage.
wanting a massage. oh, and a foot rub!
needing to find a way to make the "foundation formula" - am and pm versions and customized "amino acid" powder taste better. seriously. in their current state they are completely unpalatable! if i won't take it because it tastes like caca then it does no good for me, right?
wishing for my kids to make good choices.
waiting for the townhouse to sell so i can finally move all of our belongings into the new house and settle in completely. tired of having moved all of the contents and not the containers. living in clutter city!
thinking how incredibly fortunate to live the life i have.
enjoying always having something to do.
paying attention to all of the crazy wildlife around here. huge black squirrels hoarding small acorns and tiny red squirrels hoarding huge nuts of some kind. and the raccoons - very busy beasts.
encouraging all of my kids to make authentic choices - courses, friends, parties, activities and so many more challenges. choose what resonates with them and do it.
celebrating the change of season. i know most people think summer was just cold and wet and autumn is simply an extension of the same, but this season makes me joyful. time to use the new camera!
cultivating a new start, a foundation on which i plan to build my future.
marveling at match.com and the cesspool of crazy it contains. though, on a different level, it is great fodder for story characters!
anticipating more change, more kindness, more challenge, more frustration, more embracing, more learning, more love. yeah, that. more love.
and tada, a photo from my week:
