Even though life ain’t easy sometimes, I still want to celebrate every day! So I’ve challenged myself to take photos of my blessings and write haiku for each photo. Some days, I succeed, and other days I collapse into bed without recording any blessings for the day. Each day I resolve to try again.
Mayhaps you’re a wanna-be scrapbooker like me? Join me in this simple and hopefully daily way to record your life. Share your haiku and photographs on your blog and post the link in the comments. I’ll swing by to read of your blessings! If you tweet about this haiku project, please use #Blessings365 in your tweet. I’ll share one of my haiku each week whenever I manage it, and it may or may not have been written the previous week recently. You can share as many as you want as often as you want to participate in this project. I’m keeping it loose with the rules so we all have room to play.
If you would like to read more about my blessings, visit the Characters of My Life area of my About Page.
10-28-2011
gift from lifetime friend
flood of memories I pass
down to my children
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Hi! How have you been? I’ve been doing well. I know my blogging has been sporadic at best, but my writing has not been! According to 750words.com, I’ve written over 12,000 words so far in November. Much of it has been rambling thoughts and nonsense, but it’s writing, that stuff that keeps me sane. I really think I might be starting to figure out that question I’ve been wrestling with: “How exactly do I homeschool, write, and keep a reasonably clean home on a daily basis?”
How do you keep up with different parts of your life without living on a seesaw?
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Thoughtful Reading on Writing
Three Dozen Ways to Get Unstuck - Some of these sound fun enough to build a date night around. Hey, Honey! Are you reading my blog? 
Moments for Mamas
Big Responsibility in a Tiny Package - This writing mama really has her priorities in order. Warning! Kissable baby feet on the other side of that link!
Embracing the Blessing - Great thoughts here on “higher” education and motherhood. I received plenty of criticism (most of it imagined) after finishing college and then immediately becoming a SAHM. I love what Kathleen quotes from a former professor about becoming fully human.
And For the Kids
My Name is Stegosaurus - Learn this song and sing it five hundred times while an adult in your life drives you places.*
