294. Celebrating Brooke's birthday with her!
295. Laughter with friends, and laughter, and more laughter - Laughter, you officially have an open invitation into my heart, my home, my family, my friends, my life. Thank you!
296. Red velvet cupcakes with mini chocolate chips topped with my first homemade cream cheese frosting, and seeing everyone at the birthday celebration indulge and enjoy, especially the birthday girl (and hopefully her husband when he got leftovers:)
297. Finishing the Head Start Federal review today and getting praise from the review team for a job well done!
298. Making another new recipe from Eating Well tonight, and everyone not only eating, but enjoying their dinner! Lily said, "Mom, I'm surprised!" Yes, she's surprised that I made dinner and that it tasted good. Whenever I cook I usually try new things and they don't usually go over so well with her. But, tonight was a winner - Tortellini Primavera, and the pasta just happened to be red, green and white, so I scored some Christmas points.
299. Being able to cash in on some of my rewards for my wellness program through my health insurance to get a free subscription to Eating Well's magazine - I think that's what I'm going to do with some of my wellness points:)
300. Wow - so grateful for 300 gifts to be thankful for, can't imagine my life without taking the time to appreciate.
301. Cooking dinner with Emmy's help in the kitchen while listening to Oscar Peterson's Christmas, and Andy coming home from work to this, a glass of wine waiting for him, and saying, "It's so festive in here!" Thank you to my dear Lynn for burning that CD for us, a lovely jazzy holiday CD.
302. While eating dinner tonight, Lily finding an "L" shaped carrot and a hear shaped spinach leaf in her salad, made us both smile.
303. Eating (well, it was really more like devouring) a couple of pieces of a just made, still warm from the oven lemon bundt cake that was delivered to our HR team at work from the partner of one of our directors.
304. Telling Andy about this delicious bundt cake at work and Emmy laughing so hard she has to stop eating because she thought I said butt cake. And because everything out of her mouth these days ends in butt, this was like inventing a new word that she can (and probably will) enjoy for weeks to come - butt cake!
305. Lily giving me a self defense class based on what she learned months ago at a field trip. The trainer she had must have really made an impression because Lily completely transformed as she taught me about the dangers of bad guys, the things they might try to do, and how I can protect myself. I am completely blown away and so proud of her. She is growing up before my eyes, and now I know some moves that I should have been the one to teach her. Things are changing, I am going to embrace learning from my children - not only the cycle of life, but a basic necessity of life - giving and receiving. Thank you my sweet Lily!
306. My "smoocheroonies" with Emmy that makes us both end the night in giggles.
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