Do you ever want to say thank you because...

Your heart is expanding so much it's about to burst?

You're so lucky to smell fresh air and see a sunrise?

You have a day where life pats you on the back and says "you're amazing, and you do deserve all of this"?

Amazed at where you've ended up and the path you've taken?

You're lucky that even your bad days aren't really that horrible?

That you're lucky to have a good heart and hope you can give some of that to others?

You love the "I love you"s that don't need to be said, but someone tells you anyway, because they just can't help it?

Yeah. Well.

I'm giving myself license to feel like this today.

Some days I can whine, I can pick up on the negative... but more often than not lately, I've been releasing the hold I have on those things, and lounging in the bliss of just letting go. I'm letting myself delegate more. I'm learning how to relish the moments. I'm learning that life passes by way to quickly sometimes and every second is an interesting little memory.

My waist is expanding (and so are my boobs, deliciously) because we're baking a little bun. And while this is happening, my heart also seems to be expanding, as if in competition. It literally feels like it's stretching to accommodate all this love I have for my mister, for the unknown little friend arriving, for all the things that I want to say but haven't yet, for myself- for all the times I've been hard on myself, my spirit, my body. It's a different kind of love- it's a potent, innate, profound, sweetly torturous feeling that I've never had before.

I tend to keep certain things in my life private, but today I guess I want to open up and say thank you. Thank you to whomever sewed the crazy little tapestry of Me, and managed to give me enough brainpower to navigate pretty well. And to have given me a handsome partner that not only navigates with me, but keeps teaching me and astounding me in the ways he shows me he loves me every day. Out of billions of people on this planet, he and I found eachother and managed to create a new little friend, and for that, I can't say enough how deeply amazed and grateful I am.

Tell someone "thank you", just for the hell of it. See what happens.