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A friend of mine recently wrote this in an email to me, and I had to laugh because I realized I'm the same way.

Sycamore Street PressEvaOctober 20, 2010love6 Comments
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“Thank you is a wonderful phrase. Use it. It will add stature to your soul.” — Marjorie Pay Hinckley For a couple of years now, I’ve been trying hard to feel grateful every single day. It all started when we were going through a really rough patch financially. It was incredibly hard and it felt like I was always carrying around this heavy weight. I didn’t want it to drown me, so I started reading all kinds of positive, uplifting books and articles, anything to help me feel better and stay positive. The common theme through them all? Practice gratitude. Not just on Thanksgiving, not just for the month of November, but all the time, every day, as much as you possibly can. I added a daily gratitude practice to my walks. Just 5 minutes or so where I concentrate on anything and everything that I feel thankful for. And at bedtime, I ask everyone in my family to tell me one thing they’re grateful for and I write it down in a journal. When I’m feeling down or discouraged or victimized or upset in anyway, I try to see the positive in the situation, the silver lining, and concentrate on being grateful for that. I’m FAR from perfect at it, but these little efforts have made a huge impact in my life. They’ve made hard situations more bearable, they’ve helped me find more light and joy in my everyday, they’ve helped me teach my kids about how important it is to be thankful... Ingrid and Lars each have a special bedtime song that I sing just to them. Ingrid’s is “Count Your Blessings” from “White Christmas”: “If you’re worried and you can’t sleep, just count your blessings instead of sheep and you’ll fall asleep counting your blessings. When my bankroll is getting small, I think about when I had none at all, and I fall asleep counting my blessings.” Every other night when I sing it to her, it’s a reminder to be grateful for everything that I DO have. Even when we were going through that rough patch and I’d sing it and think about the fact that I didn’t have any bankroll at all at that moment I’d remind myself that the hard times wouldn’t last forever and I still had SO much to be grateful for. And it was true. It is true. #grateful #wellnessforcreativity
Which of these rooms designed by @studiogiancarlovalle is your favorite? 💛🧡💙 (Swipe left to see them all.) #sycamoreinspiration Photo: @stephenkentjohnson
10 things you might not know about me: 1. Every Friday night is family 🍕 movie night at our house. Always a double feature — one with the kids and one after the kids go to bed. 2. @kirk_sycamore and I are slowly watching all the Academy Award winning films for Best Picture. We’re working our way backwards and have slowed down quite a bit since getting to the 40’s. 😬 3. I went to a French school (in SoCal) for kindergarten and first grade. 🇫🇷 4. I have 1 sister and 2 brothers. (I am the oldest.) 5. In college, I was in a couple of bands: drawing number one and My Friend Fox (And a couple more super short lived bands: MK&A and St. Vincent de Paul). 🎵 6. I was/am a terrible guitar player. 🙉 7. My eyes are mostly green with some yellow. 8. My current favorite song (and it’s a kooky choice but I just love it!) is “Please Don’t Keep Me Waiting” by Olivia Newton-John (it’s in the Fall Mix I made! Link in profile.) ✨ 9. Despite my best efforts at controlling my anxiety and Hashimoto’s, I still have times when it all falls apart (like this morning, crying in a heap on the kitchen floor because I was just so tired and I missed saying goodbye to the kids before Kirk took them to school.) 🤦🏼‍♀️ 10. I like the Headspace meditation app. Does it work? Hard to say given what I mentioned in no. 9, but I think so. 😉 Baby steps. I’d love to hear something about you! #insidesycamore #parisbydesign #hashimotos Photo: @chauntevaughn
Do you consider yourself a creative person? If not, why not? I truly believe that we are all creative. Whether or not we craft, or draw, or sing, or sew, or any of the things traditionally thought of in relation to the word “creative”. I believe we all have creativity inside of us and it may look like a sculpture or it may look like a math equation or it may look like figuring out a way to get a toddler to eat their vegetables while thinking it was their own idea. 😉 Every day, we can find ways to use the creative spark that’s in all of us. And man, that sentence sounds corny when I read it back, but it’s true, ha! ✨✨✨ Photo from a @norrfilm project we worked on with some friends/colleagues a while back.
The night I landed in California, I drove up Highway 1 from the airport, past Malibu, and up to Port Hueneme to where my sister and her family live. It was a gorgeous drive and I listened to music and podcasts and felt that excitement you get at the beginning of a fun trip. Just as the light was fading I pulled over to snap this pic. That was Wednesday. Later that night, a man walked into a bar in Thousand Oaks and shot down 12 people. Just hours later, the Woolsey Fire started (and Highway 1—and 101 closed) and an entire town in Northern California burned down. It’s a crazy time in the Golden State. Take a look at my stories for ideas of how to help. And if you have other suggestions, please leave them in a comment below! 🙏 #woolseyfire #campfire

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