1. the baby’s first laugh.
2. hot soup on a cool day.
3. getting thank you flowers.
4. friends who have a backyard.
5. pro and con lists.
Tag: summer
grace in small things. 1977 of 2190.
1. people who understand when you have to cancel plans due to a screaming baby.
2. well designed items.
3. a good condo alternative to an air conditioner.
4. people who know how to run a business well.
5. being financially organized.
grace in small things. 1903 of 2190.
1. lunch on a patio.
2. a bouquet of tulips.
3. babies that sleep during car rides.
4. my favourite summer drink.
5. saying goodbye to my old apartment.
grace in small things. 1233 of 1460.
- baby cheeks.
- corralling five kids all under five years old.
- coming home.
- a sunny Vancouver.
- finishing the night off with a raspberry danish.
grace in small things. 1214 of 1460.
- getting free money.
- a sunny first day of summer.
- putting things in their logical order.
- the sounds of happy people in the park.
- fast forwarding tv.
grace in small things. 158 of 365.
- the man wearing hip waders who may or may not have been authorized to be walking around in the rich people’s pond.
- the strange positions kids sleep in.
- making loud stompy noises in my echoing stairwell.
- hot cops and their firemen friends.
- my new glasses.
grace in small things. 157 of 365.
- the mother who had trained her son to spray her bare legs with a water bottle while out in the hot sun.
- the funny shadows my pigtails made on the concrete as I walked.
- surviving the newfangled bike lane/pedestrian madness on the bridge.
- the man getting a hand job from his boyfriend while driving home because that’s what happens when you live in Vancouver and it’s Pride week.
- being handed the keys to my new air conditioned office.
grace in small things. 156 of 365.
- unintentionally witty friends.
- successfully drugging the cat.
- how perfectly a ziploc bag full of frozen peas nestles around a sprained toe.
- cold showers.
- being able to lay around naked when it’s hot because I don’t have roommates.
grace in small things. 147 of 365.
- rainbows that appear on my wall from the morning sun hitting the glass fishbowl.
- the man who may have been my soul mate based on the fact that he was eating two jumbo freezies, at the same time, while walking down the street.
- eucalyptus scented glass cleaner.
- knowing that at this time tomorrow, my mama will be in my apartment.
- the excitement of getting to show her the lovely little life I have created here, for the first time.
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