Manic Monday: Bounty

boun·ty
Pronunciation: 'baun-tE
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural boun·ties

1 : That which is given generously or liberally.


Bounty sits high on a mountain, a continual spring, pouring her soul into the valley of humanity. Do I notice as her waters rise, running across my feet, or am I looking at my neighbor and believing the lie that there is lack? Am I aware of the unlimited capacity and the magic of letting go, of giving away, of freeing myself? Am I giving to add to Bounty's rushing waters, or for my own gain? Can I keep faith and focus on the flow around me or do I lose myself in useless eddies of accumulation? Do I stop and drink up her gifts with gratitude or do I drown in self-pity and remorse for what I think I need and do not have?

I pray for the faith. I pray for the freedom. I pray for the strength, gratitude, and perseverance in my cognition of the limitless bounty in my life.

Friday's Fabulous Five

1- Hubby home again. (deja vu)
2- I don't have to wake up at seven tomorrow and get kids ready for school.
3- Finished sewing Ella's Halloween costume today! I am completely ready for Halloween as far as my kids costumes are concerned, unless I want to try to get Mac a white shirt for his vampireness. Thanks Emilee for having a party today so that I was forced to finish. This is a record for me!
4- I can read and I love to read. Feeling grateful that I can read today.
5- My sister is in town.

:) Fabulous!

Friday's Fabulous Five

I'm in such a hurry, but I had to get these fabulous things in my life posted!!

1- I have legs with feet attached to them that can run me all over in my busy-ness.

2- I have three kids that are absolutely wonderful, smart, fun and keep my life so very exciting.

3- I have drains that take yucky water away somewhere that is hard for me to imagine.

4- There are fifteen tomatoes sitting in my kitchen window that came from my garden... and more that are almost ripe on the vine.

5- I had a volunteer butternut squash come up from last year, so I thought. I looked at it the other day and I was FABULOUSLY surprised to see a bright orange pumpkin instead of a butternut squash! How fun!

Join me in acknowledging the things that are fabulous in your life today! And then go and enjoy them!

Friday's Fabulous Five

The whining must stop. I just spent a good half hour to an hour on the phone whining to one of my BFFs, and I've decided to cancel the whining. Fridays are now officially dedicated to all things fabulous! (OK, I'm going to limit it to five for the sake of time and alliteration!) Five things that are fantastic in my life right now:

1- Blogging! It brings me joy even when I miss a post now and then. I know it's there waiting for me, as are you, my incredibly fabulous readers. It's fun because you read! Thanks!
2- Lucky, the squirrel is doing fantastic. He is growing and squeaking and getting strong. I am succeeding fabulously at nursing a baby-baby squirrel to adulthood.
3- My fantastic marriage. I feel so lucky in this department. My husband is so good to me and I'm tryin' my darndest to be good to him.
4- There is progress towards getting a second bathroom in my house! FABULOUS!!!
5- My cold is almost completely gone. YAY for fantasticness!!!!

The more we give, the more we get. Join me in bringing more fantastic things into your life by expressing joy and gratitude in the things we already have that are fantastic and fabulous (feel free to use other adjectives if those two start looking weird... you know, like they're spelled wrong cuz you've typed them so many times? LOL!). Anyway... I invite you to join me on Fridays in focusing on the great, good, fantastic and fabulous things in your life! Like attracts like. Focus on what you want. (I've been trying hard to have this be my own personal daily mantra for the last two weeks, so I'm telling this to myself!) Have fun!