things i love thursday: calm after the storm edition

asian grocery store calmness, stopping to take pictures and smell the crabs, dessert essence tea tree oil face soap, taking extra long in the shower this morning, having family to bail me out in a pinch with babysitting, sitting around my wood table eating glittery remnants of food out of the cracks with friends, pork pie, homemade guacamole, margaritas with straws, friends home from spain, couch debriefing, my new sherpamama hat that i wear to bed and to drop grace off at school and look like a crazy person and don't care, taking pictures of myself with other people's cameras, auntie donna's christmas food snacks, doing kiddley activites with grace like the caramel/chocolate/pretzel thingies and then putting them in giftbags for friends, putting away all the christmas decorations in the house, keeping candles lit, watching pummie explore the world around him, my new black knee-high boots from boo that i'm wearing to work with a skirt today even though i look slightly inappropriate, afternoon snack dates with friends and their babe, snotty green nose wiping, gift cards in my wallet, planning dinner dates, kicking friends under the table

hope your thursday is filled with that asian-market-kind-of-calmness that everyone deserves after the holidays