monday iDIG

1. starting the week out with a clean home and amazing spirits despite getting up 6 times with lea last night
2. listening to my voice within and discovering whole new ways to mother and take care of lea - i knew i had it in me!
3. spending a long time in my studio today with lea and bissen. lea and i created our first two (of a lifetime) paintings! i can't express how amazing it was. and the paintings are beautiful as well.
   
4. finally receiving our mail today (after a long wrestling match with "gone poastal" man at the post office). part of the collection were three items i ordered from etsy; including an amazing note from one artist/mom "i certainly remember 'the early years of motherhood' struggle of trying to mesh so many identities and hang on to the parts of me that seemed so easily lost". sums it up for me!
5. jeff for giving me an hour this morning to stay in bed and enter the day
6. the checkers at new leaf for figuring out how to make my $15 into $18.50 so that i could get everything i wanted and hearing how much jeff loved the dinner i made for him with the ingredients.
7. kristen for sending me such amazing and inspired insight into so many parts of our lives as artists and moms.
8. signing up for our very own weekly organic-locally-grown-produce-box (say that 5 times fast)
   

nugget: i've done a lot of dirty work and just when i didn't think things would get better i see they are. please remind me of this when i get stuck again!