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This Friday I am grateful for
the soft glow of candles,
& how it is almost impossible to light only one candle.
This sweet little house we got from Auntie Katrin,
you put an incense cone inside, light it & the smoke goes out through the tiny chimney!
I am grateful for the huge parcels that arrived from my family in Germany,
and I am grateful that my children choose the box over the toys that were inside!
I am grateful for the rain & the snow , because it makes our days even cosier,
I am grateful for time spent together playing, baking & making things;
& I am grateful for letting go of fears & disappointments.
(It’s so healing to name your fears, to write them down, and then watch them slowly burn and turn into nothing but ashes , isn’t it? )
Today will be a day full of reading and snuggles, full of eating some of that lovely food that found it’s way to us from Germany, and for lots & lots of sage & honey tea.
I just love Fridays, don’t you?
What are you grateful for?
Wishing you a beautiful weekend!
♥
what a lovely idea – burning your fears…might have to try that one day
xxxCate
It is definitely very healing!
I love the little house. Ohh more popcorn
This is my Moment: http://www.giozi.com/2010/12/this-moment-4×1.html
Happy weekend
Via soule mama
Thank you for sharing your beautiful moment!
Love the little incense house. So much loveliness at your place right now.
Thank you, I can’t keep looking at it either, stories are being written about who might live inside, very magical!
Such lovely moments of warmth and cosiness : )
Thank you for stopping by , Emmalina!
Sounds just perfectly cozy, I love your gratitudes. Really lovely.
Thank you so much!
I love your new header photo. It’s looking very festive at your place!
Thank you so much, we had a lot of fun making the header! (Though small hands kept eating the biscuits & hiding the oranges, you know how it is!
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I have never commented before although I am a long time reader…
Felt the need to comment today (and before, but I’m lazy *sigh*)…
I am grateful for the internet to allow me to gain such insight, inspiration, and warmth from “strangers”…
YOU are an inspiration for how to live, reflect, adjust, and live again…and stumbling upon your blog way back when (how, I don’t remember) has been a blessing in my life…Thank you for being the amazing woman, mother, person that you are.
Secretly, I wish I was your child!
Many blessings to you…Heather
Heather,
thank you so much for your sweet comment, how incredibly lovely of you,
just what this Mama needed to hear after a very long day!
How I wish we could sit down and have a cup of tea together, wouldn’t that be fun?
Have a lovely day,
much love
Kate
hi. ok. what happened to your other name, miri? and i swear you were jewish once upon a time too. tell me!!! i’m so interested in the changes. but the jewish thing i may have dreamed up. i am so into burning stuff. all kinds. your little kids are the best. and so r u! rosemary tea. and sage. i will try that.
oh, we were jewish , yes. this is the first Hanukkah we are not celebrating, though I am not sure why not, everyone needs more light and miracles!
I will email you about the name change, it’s sort of complicated.
sage tea is brilliant, but only with honey, otherwise it tastes like soup! (to me, anyway!)
much love
<3
Hiya Kate, Are you a Hebrew/Christian Jew, (someone who was born Jewish but accepted and came into a relationship with Jesus later in life). Or had you converted to Judaism before Christianity? Also, I’m interested in why you changed your name, as name changing is something relevant in our family.
Tanya, it’s quite a bit more complicated than that, I grew up in Germany in quite a diverse family.
I will email you about both our journey to find our faith and the reason for a new name, & I am really interested in your name changes, too!
<3
It’s lovely to receive packages in the mail filed with love.
Happy Saturday to you.
My boys love the box too LOL.
I might have to try that burning my disappointments, and lighting some candles.
Maybe tonight Carols by candlelight !
That sounds like a brilliant plan, Trish!
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So beautiful.
I love your photos and your thoughts behind them
xoxo
Thank you so much, Ella!
Lovely things to be grateful for. Charmaine
Thank you! I love that you are grateful for the blogging community! I am, too, in so many ways.
I love the glow of candles
It does make a place feel so much nicer,doesn’t it?
I love candles, and yes it is impossible to light just one!
I do have to stop myself from lighting all the candles in the house!
I love the idea of burning your fears. And I also love the idea that you can’t light only one candle. A lovely list of grateful.
Thank you, we do like to burn things around here, bad memories,fears, lots of things,really!
I’m not sure how I haven’t “found” your blog before but thanks to Maxabella I have. I’m now following it because your writing and photos are so beautiful and authentic. Have a wonderful weekend and please feel free to pop over for a visit to my Casa de Chaos
I am glad you are here, I will be taking a look at your place,too.
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Beautiful post. “Letting go of fears & disappointments” is something to be grateful for forevermore. If only we could hold onto being free of these things!
Your candles look so cosy. It’s Summer here, but they make me miss the cold, cosy Winter. x
Sometimes,during the summer months , we all close the curtains, drink hot chocolate and light candles, winter time is my absolute favourite!
Thank you for dropping by my little blog. Very gorgeous photos of a wintery time.
Nothing like candles to make a place feel real cosy. Will be coming back from now on.
here’s my moment
http://guzie1968.blogspot.com/2010/12/moments-in-time_10.html
Cheers
How very nice to hear from you, & thank you for sharing your moment, too!
There is nothing more beautiful than lit candles all over a dark, candlelit house. And what a cute little house. Even real smoke. CUTE! Thank you for sharing what you do today. I love your list of lovely gratefuls. xx
Thank you!
oh that little house is just gorgeous!
I love candles too, but we don’t have many around these days, I will have to change that.
and I love a good cup of tea – heals all ills.
I have been hanging candles from the walls and the ceiling to keep them safe from little hands, and to keep the little hands safe,of course.
i just love surround us all with warmth and light, especially during this cold season!
I found out yesterday that my Toyota people carrier that I have been driving since September is actually a death trap, so I’m grateful that God has protected me and my family the whole time we have been traveling in it.
Goodness, Tanya, I am so glad you are all okay and nothing happened to you, I hope you will find a new,safe car for you & your family soon!
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hehehe at the children choosing the box, but boxes are such fun! Visiting from Maxabellas. Jen
http://www.thekingandeye.com/p/im-grateful-for.html
Jen, thank you for your comment, I love that it is snowing on your blog!
Beautiful post. I love packages that come in the mail and that the box can be used time and again for so many amazing things by little people with endless imagination.
This is my first time at your blog, I’ve come from Maxabella’s grateful link up and already love it here!
Becky, I am glad you are here and I am glad you like it,too!