xo
Tansy
Monday, 10 February 2020
A New Year
A new year has come and is well under way now. I am awaiting Spring. January was extra long this time around (but isn't it always). Here it is usually grey and cold and wet and the days drag. I was quite sick for a couple weeks and it was hard to keep on. My children have been taking turns being sick for a couple months. February has had some sunny days and that brings hope. My five year old alerted me to the presence of the first Snowdrops in our yard. I could have wept with happiness. My baby has eight teeth and her first birthday is coming so soon. I will have made it through our first year together with her here in my arms. It has been a precious time. I am tired as always but her smiles and giggles and all the things she does bring us delight and joy and I am so thankful she is with us. This year my home has started to feel small and cramped. I am working on finding the appropriate amount of thankfulness in that fullness. I am trying to quiet my restlessness but Spring draws it out I think. So onwards and upwards I go. Pressing on and pressing into truth and goodness and faith and wholeness and peace and all the things needed for this life. May your 2020 year be full of all that your soul needs
xo
Tansy
xo
Tansy
Joy
Joy
Whirling free - twirling - and light - Spring's intoxication after a long winter of cold and grey. A tiny pinecone in the form of a gift with a ripped orange piece of construction paper that says 'mom'.
Joy -showers of fluttering palest pink cherry blossoms and climbing higher in the tree than you imagined you'd be brave enough to. Galloping bareback on a horse through beauty.
Joy - experiencing rain pinging off of a glass smooth silent ocean in a kayak.
Joy -the perfect arches of a double rainbow - a blessing in swaths of sunlight and gently misting rain.
Joy - the first toothless smile from your baby looking into your eyes giving light.
Joy - harvest from your own garden. A bright delicate bouquet of Peonies picked just for you.
Joy - feeling like fire and alive after feeling cold and lifeless in your soul.
Joy -accepting a compliment and wearing it like a crown.
Joy - that first perfect sip of hot chocolate when you feel almost frozen.
Joy - bike riding down the middle of a road down a hill hands free.
Joy - baby birds with their mouths wide open and their first flight.
Joy - kittens walking for the first time.
Joy - a gleaming kitchen sink.
Joy - warm apple crisp, jumping off a water fall, getting engaged, getting to the top of the mountain you have climbed, scuffing piles of crisp Autumn leaves holding your grandmother's hand.
Joy - a gentle kiss from your mother.
Joy - A sunset over the mountains.
Joy - music and rhythm, dancing and laughter, a dress that fit you perfectly, a good hair cut, licking an ice cream cone, the first snow of the year with children beyond excited, time with friends, feeling perfectly understood.
Joy
It can come unexpectedly and be fleeting. It can transport you past yourself and any circumstance. It can sweep you away and fill you. It is to be felt fully in the moment. It is so much of what our hearts beat for.
Joy
Whirling free - twirling - and light - Spring's intoxication after a long winter of cold and grey. A tiny pinecone in the form of a gift with a ripped orange piece of construction paper that says 'mom'.
Joy -showers of fluttering palest pink cherry blossoms and climbing higher in the tree than you imagined you'd be brave enough to. Galloping bareback on a horse through beauty.
Joy - experiencing rain pinging off of a glass smooth silent ocean in a kayak.
Joy -the perfect arches of a double rainbow - a blessing in swaths of sunlight and gently misting rain.
Joy - the first toothless smile from your baby looking into your eyes giving light.
Joy - harvest from your own garden. A bright delicate bouquet of Peonies picked just for you.
Joy - feeling like fire and alive after feeling cold and lifeless in your soul.
Joy -accepting a compliment and wearing it like a crown.
Joy - that first perfect sip of hot chocolate when you feel almost frozen.
Joy - bike riding down the middle of a road down a hill hands free.
Joy - baby birds with their mouths wide open and their first flight.
Joy - kittens walking for the first time.
Joy - a gleaming kitchen sink.
Joy - warm apple crisp, jumping off a water fall, getting engaged, getting to the top of the mountain you have climbed, scuffing piles of crisp Autumn leaves holding your grandmother's hand.
Joy - a gentle kiss from your mother.
Joy - A sunset over the mountains.
Joy - music and rhythm, dancing and laughter, a dress that fit you perfectly, a good hair cut, licking an ice cream cone, the first snow of the year with children beyond excited, time with friends, feeling perfectly understood.
Joy
It can come unexpectedly and be fleeting. It can transport you past yourself and any circumstance. It can sweep you away and fill you. It is to be felt fully in the moment. It is so much of what our hearts beat for.
Joy
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