currently: ten things
Saturday, November 30, 2013 at 1:00AM 
1. Ordering photos. I can't stop ordering photos from Social Print Studio! I love them (and they don't even pay me to say that) and since I was so behind in developing my photos this was the perfect opportunity to get caught up. I am most in love with their mini squares. LOVE!
2. Keeping LIFE simple. Living simply. Loving simply. And learning not to let what the rest of world thinks dictate HOW I live or love. If it is right in my heart and with God, well that's all that matters in the end.
3. Painting up a storm. Using up old paints and finding a place in each piece for a bit of me. Allowing myself to work in small increments of time has, oddly enough, helped pushed me forward. No stress to committ to an all day affair with my studio. A little here and there gets the job done just as well.
4. Making time to LIVE again. I have spent so much of the past few years worrying over things I can not control that I forgot to do the little things that have always made me smile. Like walking in the rain at sunset. Nothing more peaceful or beautiful. Happy to be doing more of these things.
5. Catching up on some UN-favorite chores. It is no secret I love housework. This is includes my favorite chore of all time - ironing. It soothes me, what can I say? What I DON'T love it dusting. Too much stuff to move in this joint. But, alas, the time has come. Either dust or get on an inhaler. I guess dusting it is.
6. Loading up on homemade Christmas goodies for all the family. All but one are like me in that they love paper, notebooks, pens- office supplies in general. We tend to love and hoard them both. I am working on some pretty things to add to their collections. (and mine!)
7. Staying pretty true to my #photoaday creative challenge. Some days I can't fulfill the daily word prompt, no matter how creative I get, but I do try to take a photo and be creative with it - whether that be in altering it or in the actual shot itself. It is fun and I look forward to reading the daily prompt. Takes using my iphone camera to a whole new level. Want to see some of these shots? Follow along online here. IG- Raemissigman.
8. Enjoying the view from where I am. We spend so much time worrying about where we are headed and where we will go next, we forget to appreciate what it is that is right in front of us. No more. I am going to enjoy my view, from right here, for as long as I can. Tomorrow will come no matter what - me wondering what it holds won't change that. I will get to where it is that I am supposed to be eventually, me worrying about if that day will ever come is pointless. Nope- from now on you will find me right here, in the present, enjoying what I DO have. What is right NOW.
9. Grateful we were a part of such a wonderfully successfull fundraiser. The last time I checked we raised over a million dollars in toys in one night. It melts my heart to see what people will do for others. We hear all about what people aren't doing these days and not enough about what people are doing. This is a big deal. Focusing on the positive is a life changer. And through this event many, many, many children's lives will be changed, if only for the holiday.
10. Thankful for family. Thankful to have us together again this year. All of us. We are not perfect, in the rest of the world's eyes- but to one another we are as good as it gets. At the end of the day, we are all that matters. No job, artistic goal, bank account, or degree, could ever matter more than WE do to each other. It will not be a perfect day, guaranteed, but it will be time well spent. Because in all honesty, each and every holiday has held some less than perfect moment and yet all I can call to mind is the happiness. The love, the laughter, the good times. So, yes, I am thankful. For my quirky, less than perfect family. All of them.
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