Friday, January 04, 2013

A little help from the universe

After a full day back to work on Wednesday for me and Jon, yesterday Jon sent me an email with a list of his known upcoming travel. Between Atlanta, New York, Madrid, and some local large events, I will mostly be single mom-ing it for the next 6 weeks. I read the email, updated our family calendar, then replied back that I was going to pretend I hadn't read the email.

The mailman came by right then so I went outside to get some fresh air. Inside the mail, for the first time in my almost 39 years on Earth, I had received an anonymous gift from a secret person.

Card

Perfect timing, right? That little gift made me realize I am not alone, that I am loved and appreciated. Thank you, secret person. I didn't know I needed that until it showed up on my doorstep.

365 photos from this week. 
A treasured coral man we found on Topsail Island, lying in his bed of found sea glass.

Day003web

This morning's frost, now with better focus (still more focus work to go, argh).

Frost

Playing games in my office while having a dance party. I'm ready for the boys to be sick of Gangnam Style. Please, universe?

Play

9 comments:

Joanna said...

Oh, someone out there is very sweet!

As for wanting the boys to give up on Gangum Style? Well, you could always teach them the Macarena.

Beth said...

Last week while finishing up some Christmas shopping at the mall, we came out to find a card on our windshield. We were relieved once we realized it wasn't a ticket, and then incredibly happy when we saw that it was a random act of kindness in honor of the Sandy Hook victims. It's amazing how these little things have such major impact. Glad you received your message when you needed it.

Lindsay said...

Yea Secret Person! Wish it had been me!

Much love for your single mom time. We can complain together, for it is officially BUSY SEASON.

Irene said...

I guess I should thank you for not being completely up front with Matt about Jon's travel? :) Good luck with that, at least you can hit the Starbucks drive through.

Lainey-Paney said...

Oh, well if it's from a completely anonymous person, then I'm gonna take full credit for it!
Sure, it was me.
It was totally me!!!!
...and, you're welcome.

Brooke* said...

this is AWESOME! i'm totally stocking up on starbucks gcs and doing this pronto...love love love!!!

hush said...
This comment has been removed by the author.
hush said...

My kids are obsessed with Gangnam Style and I'm sooo over it!

Thank you so much for recommending the best book I've read in a long while: "tiny beautiful things: Advice on love and life from Dear Sugar" by Cheryl Strayed. Fantastic book, and I'm a tough critic. I also gave "Gone Girl" to my mom for Xmas, so many thanks again for the great book recommendations.

Tanika Davis said...

That flower photo is perfect, hush your mouth, girl!