What a Happy Family by Saumya Dave
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 Year of Yes – 212
Family photography day is always my favorite. I love these people so much. On days like this where I get nothing done and feel frustrated about having to drive from errand to errand, it’s a good reminder that I am so lucky to get to drive around these people I love so much. Yes to perspective. Yes to gratitude. Yes to being in the pictures. #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes  Year of Yes – 211
Date night tonight with my awesome husband. Every phase of raising kids comes with challenges and rewards and I’ve liked and struggled with all of them. But this phase might be one of my favorites. Our kids are old enough to have deep, intellectual and emotional conversations with and they are still interested in talking to us. And they are old enough to leave home without a sitter for date night. Yes to us time. #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes  Year of Yes – 210
I’ve been listening to Brené Brown’s podcast series that she did with her siblings for the anniversary of “The Gifts of Imperfection” and feeling so much gratitude for all the reminders and honest conversations. There’s a lot of new at my work and I’m adjusting and learning and readjusting a lot lately. As someone who has a core value around service and helpfulness and struggles with worthiness, it can be a doozy to deal with constant adjusting to a new person and a new rhythm. It’s often 3 steps forward and 2 steps back and sometimes vice versa so it feels like so much effort for so little progress. And it can be easy to beat myself up for not getting it faster, not landing things, not making enough progress, and on and on. Instead I am working hard to release the pressure and trying not to beat myself up. I am showing up and trying to do a good job. Listening to the feedback and adjusting as best as I can. I am showing up and doing the work. That’s the best I can do at the moment. And when I know better, I’ll do better. And every day I am working on letting the frustration and disappoinment go so I can start my days fresh and show up to do the work again instead of carrying it around with me all day, every day, everywhere. Onward. Yes to releasing what doesn’t serve me. Yes to being patient with myself. #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes  Year of Yes – 209
Made it through hump day. I realized today that we have about three weeks left before school starts. I am not a huge fan of transitions because I am such a routine person and transitions usually require a change of routine. So the beginning of each school year is tough for me. I expect this one will be even tougher as uncertainty is rising again in California. This is just to remind myself to take it day by day and that the last two years have been all about changing and pivoting. I can do this. Yes to making it work. #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes  Year of Yes – 208
Achievement unlocked. Last night, I went to the climbing gym with my husband and decided it was time to take the lead test. He’d been wanting me to take it for several months and when I saw this route at the pipe ( the one the person is climbing in the photo ) I was relatively confident I could make it happen. So we did it and I passed. I am now lead certified. Major achievement for someone who is not the least bit athletic. It was a great lesson in bravery, having faith in myself and attempting things before I thought I was fully ready. It was a good signal to my nervous system that in fact I was ready and I wasn’t giving myself credit. So there we are. Done and dusted as Leanne Hainsby likes to say. Yes to making my hubby’s dreams come true. #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes   Year of Yes – 207
Yesterday I got to sit outside and do art and document our stories and read and journal and relax. I’m finding that I need this reflection and recovery time more and more lately. It’s a way to fill my cup, assess where I am and what I’d like to add to and remove from my life. It helps me be more intentional and more grateful and just in general more present in my life. Again and again I find that if I don’t take time to fill my own cup, it changes how I show up for others. Yes to filling my cup. #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes 
 Year of Yes – 206
The sky was all over the place today. Made me think about how sun finds a way to shine through. And how there are always some clouds even on a clear day. And how clouds can make the sky more beautiful and more interesting all at the same time. Not sure what it all means. But that’s what was on my mind today. Yes to what is. #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes 
It is impossible not to love this book. I dare you to try. This is the story of Wallace, a lawyer who dies from a heart attack and is brought to Hugo who lives in a “tea shop” where Wallace will cross over with Hugo’s help. Wallace wasn’t the very best person when alive, let’s just say. But now as he lives in the tea shop with Mei (his reaper) , Nelson (hugo’s grandfather), Hugo, and Apollo (hugo’s dog) he learns more about life and how to live than he ever did while he was alive. As with TJ Klune’s other novels, these characters wind their way into your heart and never let go. The story is deep, joyful, meaningful and deeply heartfelt. If you let yourself feel it, there’s no way this story will not warm your heart and make you feel deeply grateful. I loved every minute I spent with it. with gratitude to netgalley and Tor Books for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review. |
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