Grace in Small Things, November 5, 2012

Hi Everyone! Happy Monday!

A few things that are making me happy today:

1. Thank you so much to everyone here and IRL who left comments, texted, emailed, called, facebooked etc. on my brother Luke's birthday...it is still a hard day, and I appreciate all the support more than you know. Sometimes I feel so alone in my sadness...not after this weekend...

2. I've had my DSLR camera for way over a year and am JUST NOW starting to take it off the automatic settings and really use it. :)

Don't know why this particular picture taken over the weekend makes me so happy, but it does:

3. Friends of mine from Santa Barbara (actually, the drummer in my brother's band) with a pregnancy announcement (congrats Dave and Mel!), friends from San Francisco with an engagement ring (congrats Chris and Kim!), another SF friend of mine down to Baja for a month (so, so jealous...but love that she is always getting to do such cool stuff...)

4. My husband is home! (He's been traveling a ton.)

5. And my parents are returning today after a month-long trip to Europe...I've missed them tons...can't wait to have them back!

Hope everyone has a lovely week!

XOXO

Oh, and PS, three nights of The Voice this week? I'm excited.

And PPS, I have FINALLY figured out who I'm going to vote for tomorrow. I read a phrase in The New Yorker last week about undecided voters being "ideologically incoherent"...love that phrase...that is so me when it comes to politics...

Oh, and PPPS, I dropped my (newish) iPhone in the soapy bottle washing water this weekend...totally submerged but it appears to be fine...how is that possible?!?