"The Luckiest" Embroidery

Last week rushed by so quickly I could barely keep up with all the exciting, amazing things that were happening. One of my oldest friends got married which swept even more of my old close friends back into town. I got to spend hours in the evening catching up, laughing, and making up for lost time.

Then after the days leading up to and away from the wedding was my birthday. I normally grab dinner with the family and spend the day off from work and this year was the same, including two favourites: a trip to The Underground Cafe (my favourite lunch spot in the universe!) and Cakeology Bakery (for a birthday cakette…or three). I ducked out to dinner with my family, and had a fabulous time that included a blog reader coming up and introducing herself to me. That was a first! It was overwhelming and unexpected, and made my birthday even better.

The next day, Jesse & I packed up and boarded a plane to explore Baltimore and Washington, DC for over a week.

It’s been surreal, fun and breathless. More than anything it reminded me of this embroidery piece I finished the day before I left. I’m feeling truly lucky now. And while they’re nice, it’s not because of the special occasions or the celebrations. It’s gratitude for the ordinary things. I’m looking forward to the routines of every day life, the rhythms of my relationship with Jesse, the cycles of working with design clients.

We usually think of being lucky as something that happens to us, but maybe it’s more about gratitude for the ordinary moments we get everyday.

I like that idea, because it means we all have lots of time ahead of us where we’ll get to be thankful for exactly what’s happening at that moment. And that if luck isn’t only something that happens to us, we can make any year as lucky as we like.

So in my first days of 28 I’m feeling lucky for all the ordinary pieces of life that add up to a really beautiful life for me. And that has me all kinds of excited for what this year could bring.

What ordinary parts of your life make you feel lucky right now?