- a woman who literally stopped to smell the roses.
- being able to move back into our house even though the painting isn’t quite finished.
- being able to put the baby to sleep in her own bed.
- fixing an annoying electronics configuration.
- giving up control and letting people do things for me.
Tag: life
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- no hassle return policies.
- finally getting out of my ridiculous grey paint loop and picking a good colour.
- tackling a project that is going to be a huge improvement to my living room once it’s painted.
- finding an amazing (and cheap) Vietnamese restaurant.
- washing a day’s worth of plaster dust off.
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- waking up to a clean kitchen because you cleaned up after the dinner party the night before.
- my fancy new ladder.
- restocking the pantry.
- trading massages.
- hanging curtains.
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- a giant cucumber.
- sautéed Swiss chard.
- a basil pesto butter.
- blueberries on vanilla ice cream.
- a dinner party that features food from our garden.
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- getting two babies to sleep at the same time.
- dealing with less crying than I thought I would have to.
- thinking about how much fun the girls will have when they get a little older.
- figuring out how to maneuver when both arms are filled with babies.
- surviving my first day of babysitting.
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- doing early morning yard work before it gets too hot.
- last minute invitations that require no planning and work perfectly with everyone’s schedule.
- introducing someone to the baby for the first time.
- setting clear parameters when friends and money are involved.
- celebrating Canada Day.
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- making a very grouchy baby momentarily happy with sausage.
- being alone in the car.
- the kinds of conversations you can only have with close friends.
- a table that doesn’t have any babies trying to climb on it.
- not having to share my food.
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- an unexpectedly free lunch.
- not dying from the heat.
- buying a product I read about in an online forum and having it actually work.
- electronic problems that sort themselves out.
- a new pair of work gloves.
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- listening to the baby “talk” to the neighbour’s cat.
- patching the last of the gaping holes in my walls.
- an abundant supply of basil and chives from the garden.
- finding the solution to almost any problem on the internet.
- ice cream with freshly picked raspberries.
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- not being woken up at 5:30am.
- the sheer joy on my daughter’s face when I offer her a piece of watermelon.
- a photograph that reminds me of a painting I once made.
- going to do something and discovering that my husband already did it.
- making a big decision.
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