Grateful Monday

I'm grateful first, always, for my daughter Helena. Her name means light and she offers her radiance to the world through a heart of love and kindness, a creatively brilliant mind, and a soul that cares deeply for each furry critter. 

I'm grateful for the furry friends we share our lives with, their unique personalities that add spice to our days: two dogs and a rat.

I'm grateful for rambunctious Brittany Sam who can run 9 miles through the woods at 11.5 years old and come home itching for more adventure, Sam who lives to smell-all-the-smells and for whom polar plunges in icy waters are a way of life, Sam who uses his paw to direct your hand to give him belly rubs. 

I'm grateful for Lilly's calm cuddley nature and her happy wagging tail that's won her the nickname "Lil' Miss Lilly-whipper" or "Lilla-whip". I'm grateful that we found her - or maybe she found us - bringing more love and joy into our home so unexpectedly. I'm grateful that she loves to drink healing herbs and eat veggie scraps and is becoming healthier by the day.

I'm grateful for the rodent. While I don't hold the same fondness for her as for our canine companions, she is admittedly quite adorable, passionate about almonds, and adds great joy to Helena's life. 

I'm grateful for our new sunlight-filled home, closer to everything, filled with beauty, books, music, laughter, and most of all LOVE! 

I'm grateful that spring will soon be here! 

​What are you grateful for today?

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