joys

More Hakomi practice… twice monthly practice group with my fellow graduates, and another weekend to be coached as therapists, starting today!

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So many kisses and cuddles from my boys.

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Babysitting our neighbor’s 20-month-old daughter. I spent the whole time utterly delighted by her toddlerness, because she was so delighted by everything! Water running down the sidewalk. “Zumpeen!” on the trampoline. Seeing Mica, which occasions a great big “Hi Ica!!” from her. I toted her around on my hip as if she were my own.

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My weekly Neufeld group with other homeschooling moms. I am so, so, so happy and into it and getting so much out of the material (about childhood development and attachment). Clarity, and purpose, and such deep community.

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Orlando’s new school — I can hardly believe this exists five minutes from our house and is just what he needs right now.

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Smelling the scent of wood smoke in Orlando’s hair and clothes when he comes home from outdoor school.

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Mica running all over the house today completely animated, showing me the amazing paper airplanes he and Papa had made. Baking an apple crisp with him, and him telling me, “I like to bake things. That’s just the kind of person I am.”

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The million and one tiny drawn jack-o-lanterns the boys taped to our windows and doors.

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Running errands with one child — so quiet and quick.

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That we can always learn and grow. That I am learning and growing — I am even learning about how to grow!

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{joining mon for joy pockets}