Breathe September :: Surroundings

Surround[ed] by love

and giggles. 

😊

Time spent playing with my sweet littles 

is always pure delight for this auntie. 

💕

#breatheseptember2016

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July 04 :: 4th of July

Testing her wings under Papa's ever-watchful eye. 

❤️

(I love this one so much)

Fun with Sparklers

 🎉 🇺🇸 ❤️ 🇺🇸 🎉

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Everyday Beauty :: Compassion

I was awake in the wee hours this morning, struggling. A gremlin in my head kept telling 

me, in a very convincing tone (as gremlins do), that something I had shared was way too 

much. (a very old voice, this one). 

Not being able to sleep, I got up, pulled out my journal and, as I've been learning in a 

course I'm taking, I practiced giving myself the soothing gift of self-compassion. I opened 

to a blank page and, just as a loving Mama would tenderly gather her fearful child close, I

began to write. I was able to gently reassure both myself and that very old part of my 

brain, who is just trying to keep me safe in the only way she knows how, that while it 

may not have been received as I'd hoped, it really was ok.

And after writing a few pages while practicing deep, calming breaths?  I felt so, *so* 

much better.

Blessed be. 

❤️

#everydaybeauty

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Timely Third

Well, lookie here! 

A third beauty awakens. . .

Abiding this morning in 

her gentle lesson 

that while it might feel late, 

both to those around us who have already nodded off 

and to our own aching hearts?

We all bloom in our own time. 

Indeed, there is a time for every season. 

❤️

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Blessed Birthday Beauty

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