November | 2016 | Beautiful Creatives

Good afternoon, my beautiful creatives!

I am dreaming of Christmas in my new house. We are not there yet. We actually do not move in until December 1st.

In my world, we put up our Christmas decorations on November first. My hubby and I have made this one of our favorite Christmas traditions since the year my mom died, which was in 1999. He kept playing the song, “We Need A Little Christmas”, and we did, we really REALLY needed it.

So a Christmas tradition was born.

I know that November, 1st is technically early, but do you know how much work it takes to decorate everything beautifully??? And since my hubby and I are usually out of town for the actual Christmas holiday, we try to enjoy evenings with the twinkle of Christmas lights sparkling off of shining ornaments for as long as we can.

This year, however, since we are moving, and more specifically, moving on December 1st, we are not doing that this year. Right now, as I sit here typing this, I am thinking that our very first thing going up, in our new house, will be our Christmas tree. I won’t care if I haven’t yet found our toothbrushes, or drinking glasses. Those are just minor details compared to the ambiance and radiance that a Christmas tree brings to our home.

Even though I am so excited about our move, I am a little bit sad that I cannot decorate as early as I want to, and because of that I thought I would share some of my FAVORITE Christmas Instagram pics that I have discovered! This is just going to have to do it’s magic little best to tide me over to the day that I too will be able to share a pic of our Christmas home!!

Crown Header Good morning, world!

I am sitting in my living room, with my sweet Sophie girl already asleep by my side, her matronly age is starting to show. It is still early morning, and it is very quiet. My sweetie has already left for another day of hard, laborious, but gratifying work.

I can hear the ticking of a small clock on my living room wall, and a slow water drip from somewhere off in the distance. I live on a very busy street, so I hear the buzz of cars whirring by, but I am used to its steady rhythm. My world is very peaceful. As I sit here, quietly looking out on my ever changing life, I am struck by just how incredibly thankful I am for my life.

You would think that with all of the changes going on, health, job loss, move to the big city on the horizon, and all in the middle of the holiday season. You would think that I would, or maybe should be, freaking out right about now, but there is something peaceful going on inside of me. I am just so thankful. Thankful for all of it. There isn’t any usual sign of fear, or dread, or panic, or worry, which that, in and of itself, is a new thing, especially with all of my years of anxiety tucked neatly under my belt, as if it were a badge to be worn with honor.

To put it simply, life is really good.

I am really blessed.

If you asked me how everything was going to unfold, I would have to honestly tell you that I have no idea, but I know that everything is just as it should be. I am on my path. That sounds so odd coming from me, I need to say it again. I am on my path. I am on MY path!

My ongoing daily mantra is:

I am following my true north, staying in gratitude, and am living to connect, create, and empower.

That can sometimes feel like a really difficult thing to live up to, but this morning it seems to flow out of me with ease. I think that is because I feel like I am FINALLY turning this Titanic of a ship, a ship that has been my life for so long, onto the course that I was meant to live on all along. I am not sure why I have resisted, and pushed back, and struggled against for so long. I know my course will not be easy, and heaven knows just HOW MUCH work I still have yet to do, but for the first time in my adult life, I feel like I can do it. I am going to make it. I am going to be okay.

This knowledge is HUGE.

I am going to be okay.

I AM GOING TO BE OKAY!

This is music to my ears, and FINALLY I have let my soul hear it’s song!

(insert power pose here!)

I am going to be okay.

To anyone who might be reading this post today, my wish for you is that you will find yourself, quite soon, peacefully sitting on your sofa, in the quiet of the morning, hearing your soul, too, tell you, that you are going to be okay.

Here is to new adventures!

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