So, I am posting this the week after the attack in Paris and other bombings and attacks around the world.  This is not new news, but the latest has pushed everything into the spotlight bringing out the best and worst in people.  I am saddened by the terror that so many around the world live in.  Every minute of every day.  I have never known this kind of fear.  My life is very easy in comparison and I have no legitimate complaints.  I hope with all my heart that my children never know the type of fear so many children have only ever known.  I am grateful to have a predictable and safe routine.  This 365 photo a day project has at times been a little boring and the photos mostly uninspiring, but I vowed to finish.  And here is what I realize, my boring is what is wished for by thousands and thousands every single day.   I am so very grateful to have to opportunity to feel these feelings.   I don't take for granted what I have and work hard to teach my girls that they are incredibly lucky to be born and living where they are.  They don't really understand what happens around the world, but they are aware of all we do have. 

I am grateful for the mundane and the silly, the incredible learning experiences my family and friends experience.  We have the chance to exist and thrive and celebrate the little things.

I wish peace and safety for those who desperately need it.   I have known refugees escaping wars.  I admire them.  What it must take to make an incredible leap, not of faith, but of desperation to try to save yourself and your children.  I would do anything to save my children and to have to watch them suffer the way so many thousands must, I cannot comprehend.  My heart breaks.

I am grateful.

These are the moments that seemed silly and boring and pointless, but are now very cherished.