world peace: nutella hot chocolate

This is my newest favorite late-night trick:

Cheap hot chocolate mix with a giant spoonful of Nutella mixed in.

It will bring peace to the entire world, I am certain. 

My life has felt like one giant crash-landing lately. I am grasping at straws of normalcy to keep from losing my mind at all the change and craziness and chaos. And then I read about what life is like in other places and realize what a jerk I am for complaining at all. 

So: one day at a time.

I've picked a word for the year and am so excited to share my journey with you. That one little word is already sending me in some beautiful + unexpected directions. More soon!

fear + dream ::meet:: simple + beautiful

Happy Monday, sweet friends!

I'm over at Simple + Beautiful today sharing my recent journey of mine 

where I overcame one of my fears in pursuit of something a whole lot better.
Ms. Melinda Joy is a beautiful + kindred spirit, not to mention a very old friend.
Go get to know her -- you'll be glad you did.

Hop on over and say hello!

two things right

As I was bringing up wood from the basement this morning, my heart just about melted when I looked up and saw those little girls sitting shoulder to shoulder in their jammies, "reading" their scriptures. Of course they squabble (frequently), but when it boils down to it, those two are best buddies. They love each other so much. And it makes me so happy that they are beginning to love the scriptures, too.

I feel like I did a lot of wheel-spinning today. I took both those pictures before nine o'clock this morning, and it was reassuring -- after a long, wheel-spinning kind of day -- to sit down to blog those photos and remember that at least I did two things right today -- and maybe a few more, besides. What did you do right today?