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August Gratitude Day 8: When I Feel Most Content

Orange sunset along the horizon behind silhouetted trees

As I write this, I’m feeling pretty content. I’ve been hanging out with a good friend of mine all day, doing Lego, watching TV, and having a low-key day. 

We just won’t talk about the incident with the Lego flowers that fell off the table, smashed everywhere, and was promptly packed away in the box and ignored.

We’ve even cooked dinner together (neither of us cook, like ever) and even watched the sunset.

The sunset over the mountain ridge

We’re now relaxing with a vodka lime and soda, watching another episode of Elsbeth. Yep…content.

Which brings me to the daily gratitude prompt from The Optimistic Muse.

I feel most content when…

Now, this might be a surprise to all of you, but I didn’t overthink it.…

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August Gratitude Day 5: Thankful for this comfort in my daily routine

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Unlike my previous gratitude posts, my goal today is to keep this one short. Right now I’m meant to be doing a workout, but my butt hurts from yesterday’s session and I’m being a little sooky. I’ll be walking my son to school today, so I’ll still be getting movement, but I’ve postponed my workout until lunch.

All that to say that I’ve broken my morning routine today, which is semi-relevant to today’s gratitude prompt:

I’m thankful for this comfort in my daily routine…

I’m thankful for my mental health app on my phone, Finch.

About Finch

At its core, Finch is a self-care app. You have a bird that you take care of by taking care of yourself. Your job is to tick off tasks during the day, and if you complete enough, your Finch gets sent on an adventure.…

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August Gratitude Day 4: I’m so grateful I met…

Header reading “August Gratitude Day 4: I’m so grateful to have met” over four women wearing novelty glasses

It’s day 4 of my personal challenge to blog the daily gratitude prompts from The Optimistic Muse, and today’s prompt is:

I’m so grateful to have met…

I’ve been lucky to meet some incredible people in my life. There are the usual suspects, obviously my family, and my husband. I’m grateful to have met my son, but if we talk about that, it makes you consider why I might not have met my son, and that gets pretty morbid quickly. So we’ll move on from that before it gets sad.

If I started talking about my friends, the list would get pretty huge – I’ve got some pretty kick ass people in my village, so to speak. So, I’ve decided to focus on some online friendships I’ve made in pretty unique and unusual ways.…

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