Count your blessings - December 2021

• A boy in quarantine at home at the moment we're working from home full time again anyhow...fortunately no organizational stress
• A boy being able to return to school for a last week and seeing the number of classmates returning rising again so they were almost complete before the end of the year
• Walking in the city with my son's little hand in mine, listening to his chatter. 
• My Far Side scraped daily feed, my daily smile
• Crawling all together in the bed in the morning to snooze with the 4 of us...4 bodies close to each other for a few minutes. 
• My booster being planned sooner than anticipated
• Hopping through the street hand in hand with my youngest
• Christmas trees and lights everywhere in the house
• 10 days of vacation
• Watching a funny movie in the morning with the entire family in pyjama's
• Observing both brothers playing calmly with their new Lego
• Christmas with family again
• The city beautifully decorated for the holidays
• Searching books in the library
• Checking in in an B&B and getting a tiny holiday feeling
• Good conversations with my manager
• BBS Prime tv...excellent winter tv
• Boys running around excitedly in soft new onesies
• Cooking fresh soup
• 2 boys with a fresh haircut
• Quite some negative self-tests
• A basement that looks steadily emptier
• A call to meet some far relatives in Canada digitally for the first time
• Brainstorming on our #wedraaiendoor music series here on the blog

This is a monthly list of simple things in my life that make me happy or that make me smile.  As the world often seems full of negativity and disaster, I want to pay attention to these small things that make me happy in my daily life and be grateful for them. You can find all of them via this link