Bread Crumbs In The Butter

Grace In Small Things: 9/365

1. My new bathrobe. It's insanely soft. I wonder if I can wear it to work?
2. Guacamole.
3. Listening to Meghan eat her favourite meal and then watching her pat her stomach when she's done.
4. Knowing that in a matter of days I will have a brand new neice.
5. The ugly burgundy navaho print pillows, still leftover from the first couch set we bought in 1995.

Grace In Small Things: 8/365

1. Steak, baked potato, steamed veggies and red wine for dinner.
2. Movie downstairs for the kids. Movie upstairs for Mom and Dad.
3. An empty gym on a Saturday and working my arms till they felt like they would fall off.
4. Hearing "I love you, Mommy."
5. My iPod.

Grace In Small Things: 7/365

1. Anticipating a night out with good friends.
2. Winning three soccer games in a row and being told by a teammate that I shut down many plays on defence.
3. Hearing steps in the kitchen and suspecting one of my kids was up again, asking who it was and hearing my husband say it's him - when I wasn't expecting him home for hours.
4. Nachos.
5. Ribbing a good friend all night about her disgusting protein shakes, but knowing it totally helped my game and I know she knew it would do that.

Grace In Small Things: 7/365

1. Getting the girls hair cut, all three of them, in 45 minutes by my awesome stylist. Nothing compares to a good kid cut.
2. New music. Like Jamie Lidell and Elliot Brood.
3. Soccer games two nights in a row. 
4. Alex playing hockey.
5. Tonight's dinner. Recipe after the jump!

Grace In Small Things: 6/365

• Falling behind on this little project already, but not feeling bad, because I am truly trying to find grace in small things daily. Even if I forget to write about them.
• Alex finally getting into speech therapy through his school.
• My Mom getting to my house two hours before I finished work and cleaning my house and prepping (but not cooking, because she knows that would make me mad) dinner.
• Pausing The National for my husband so that he can watch the news when he stops working and knowing that he will appreciate it so much that he will pour me a glass of wine and rub my sore knee while we watch.
• Payday. It makes working suck (if only slightly) less.

Grace In Small Things: 5/365

1. Knowing I might still be marketable after being a stay at home mom for ten years.
2. Friends who call within minutes of a message saying "Can you call me? I need a friend."
3. Days off.
4. John's hockey night.
5. Paying off a credit card.

Grace In Small Things: 4/365

1. Alex losing his first tooth. He was so insanely proud.
2. Hearing my kids say "Let's not watch TV, let's go play house!"
3. Drinks and a roving game of Balderdash with good friends.
4. Yellow Tail Shiraz.
5. Eggs.

Grace In Small Things: 3/365

1. A great game of soccer.
2. Seeing some of my favourite customers at work.
3. Cheating on clean eating with a fresh from the oven homemade cinnamon roll.
4. My new boots.
5. How tall Erin is.

Grace In Small Things: 2/365

1. Explaining to Kristyn the real meaning behind Dr Seuss' The Sneetches and seeing her really get it and deciding to take a chance by working some controversial (for Grade 7) stuff into her speech about the author.
2. A BBQ chicken, red onion and banana pepper pizza on whole wheat crust from Pizza Pizza.
3. Playing soccer. My God, I love playing soccer.
4. That Meghan gets so mad that she cries. Just like her mother.
5. The huge box of fresh Florida oranges delivered to my work today from a loyal and appreciative customer. So. Juicy.

Grace In Small Things: 1/365

Through Jess, I discovered Schmutzie's new project called "Grace In Small Things".  A daily project focused on celebrating even the smallest amazing things in your life.

Here's where she gets me:

"Too much niceness in others tends to bring out adverse reactions in this Schmutzie. Something about sweetness lined with naïveté makes me want to turn into a shin-kicking, hair-pulling schoolyard bully. I don't, of course, because I recognize that no matter how nauseasly saccharine I find a the-glass-is-completely-full view of the world, I recognize the beauty hiding in the idealism, and it is alluring."

... and she hooked me.

So, I'm going to climb on this bandwagon and ride it for as many of the next 365 days as I can. Join me?

Day One:

1. Alex and his friend Perry having the most adorable conversation about what 100+100 should be (one says 250, the other says 5,000).
2. My hair. I've got great hair.
3. A fridge full of amazing fresh vegetables and fruit to keep my stomach happy.
4. That, thanks to our new electric heaters our oil bill has been cut by hundreds of dollars.
5. Kristyn. Just her in general, but for another reason too. Did I tell you she can babysit? And she loves it!