I am grateful for…
1) pink and turquoise together.
2) the baby boy rolling from front to back today! Like a bunch of times! This is big. He’s been working on this a while. We’ll see how it sticks, but I’m thinking we may be past the phase where he gets into tummy time and looks like a limb-flailing stuck bug until we flip him over. He looked SO PROUD.
3) MELT balls. I heart MELT—it’s a method to help the whole body but these little kits of balls focus on hands and feet. And since I’ve got a maybe torn shoulder, I need all the help I can get, especially since I can’t do bupkis exercise-wise until I get an MRI.
4) Canva.com, a cool site that’s helping me pretend I’m a designer and getting me pretty graphics to use here and elsewhere.
5) trading off with b. so that we each get to sleep between the boy’s sleep and first nap. two juicy hours. today was my day to sleep. tomorrow i will be up at 6 am, bouncing the boy and giving him a house tour (short) and making these squeak and crinkle for his amusement.
6) the rain having stopped, for now.
7) quinoa patties from Super Natural Cooking Every Day. Delicious. A baked version is here.
8) having relationship code words for things. instead of saying, “Why the hell aren’t you paying attention to me?” or “I told you 8,000 times I can’t hear you when I’m doing the dishes,” we say a word, and it says “I’m triggered but not dumping my anger on you.” Which makes it possible for us to lovingly respond to the need behind the trigger. Our word is “Meow.”
9) the dream I had last night in which I was teaching a couple how to do the Imago relationship dialogue.
10) the entire, unopened, new Natalie Goldberg book perched above my head. Maybe some day I will read it.
