.... Hello Monday .... Hello Gratitude ....

Hello Monday.... hello gratitude...and hello to writing this weekly post... which always lifts my mood.It's ironic really how these posts came to be...and how powerful they have been for me.
I have realized...the more gratitude I have...the better my life has become...on so many levels.
Focusing on gratitude as least for a few hours each week...has become a way for me to retrain my brain...to focus on the good that is my life...instead of being so often caught up in the minutia of everyday frustrations.
As the last leg of summer presents itself...I am forced by this post...to reflect on the good that is my life.
Taking the time to refocus on this good...has been this summer's best accomplishments.
I have tried to slow down...and be grateful for the beauty that is in my life...Focusing on the good   I have in my life... means less time for spirals down the rabbit holes of anxiety and depression.
But I can see...Just like regular physical workouts...this will need to be a regular practice...not a  summer box that I checked off and move on from.
I must make gratitude...a daily practice in my life..every season.
I am ever so grateful again this week...not only again for great health care...but the gorgeous aesthetics where ours takes place...and the healing comfort it brings.
We got the results of Hunter's MRI this week...and it was the best we could have hoped for.Only his kneecap was torn away with the waves impact...which means no surgery and only 6 weeks of physical  therapy.
 Hello Monday...and hello to gratitude to having time in the garden...and seeing through the effects of the summer season.
Hello to being  grateful for having gotten pieces in my Primitives Collection listed inmy shop.Having my daughter Ellis's  help has made all the difference.
Hello gratitude for dinners out with my husband during the week...and sunset strolls around our neighborhood lake...When our kids were growing up...we were bound by their schedules...even in the summers.As bitter sweet as their growing up and on has been...a silver lining of this time in our life...has been some spectacular summer sunset strolls.
To everything there is a season.
Hello to  my favorite time of the week...Friday's at the beach for sunset cocktails...
and the time to savor the beauty that is summer from the Rooftop in Laguna Beach.
as always my friends
I wish you love and joyas you style a life full of gratitude.