appreciate

just taking a moment today to appreciate things from these past few days and the coming weekend (before we start teaching on monday and get into a routine...)

i think today is for loving and appreciating and taking pictures and just being with people. today is for making coffee and making people smile.  i want to capture all the goodness i see. i am thankful for laughing with friends until i lose my breath. i'm thankful that now i can listen to josé play songs he wrote himself. i'm blessed when i work huge puzzles at my kitchen table with people i love and when we all clean the garage floor and spray down the front of the house together. i love juice and colmados and heart sprinkles and so many smells (lemon, vick's vaporub, freshly mopped floors, cows, just-bathed niños) and when the power comes back on in the morning and i feel the air from my fan and when people kill the tarantulas i can't bring myself to kill, when i finally get up the courage to kill a tarantula that i'm obligated to kill, when there's a night that i don't see a tarantula...

there are a lot of good things. just wanted to share. we'll see what today brings!