photodiary

I was just writing in my Gratitude Log on my phone that it's a highlight of my week making my #photodiary post.
And I thank you all for helping me to focus on the good.
Here are some good moments from the past week:
- Creative and cozy time making a collage
- Advent tracker for re-reading the 24 chapters in the Gospel of Luke in 24 days
- Advent candle lighting up the darkest time of year
- My mom decorating
- Beautiful sunrise signaling a little glimpse of the sun
- My oldest is so happy with his Marabou chocolate advent calendar that he placed it right next to his computer screen
- I am blessed to never go hungry and to be able to eat nourishing food
- I got myself an advent calendar from The English Tea Shop
- One more batch of vanilla wreaths.

Staying committed to taking at least one picture each day for my #photodiary has reminded me of how the small things in everyday life are anything but small.
They are bountiful blessings that add up to a good life for me even though I struggle a lot with my mental health.
Some highlights from the past week:
- My auntie gifting me 24 Pepsi Max Cheery cokes as an advent calendar
- Took my One Year Bible to the cafe to get a Christmas latte and read
- A collage that I made as a front page for December in my Faith Journal
- My two sons also got soda advent calendars from my auntie; their godmother
- Beautiful moon
- My youngest in his relax wear; slippers, jumpsuit, and warm vest
- Finished a gratitude sentence a day in November in my Faith Journal
- Each morning I go to work, I ride by these Christmas lights. And they are so shiny and bright in the morning darkness
- My mom's dog Shiba snoring and sleeping soundly.
Thank you for letting me share and keeping me accountable to my gratitude goals!

Time for #photodiary post!
I've been keeping it up with at least one photo a day - and I have been since September.
This week's highlights:
- Frost crystals on leaves early in the morning
- Being able to buy the groceries needed
- My mom's dog, Shiba, and one of my brothers' dog, James, keeping an eye on the garden
- Baked goods for our Thanksgiving (we celebrated a week early); Pumpkin pie spice crumble muffins
- First snow of the year (maybe the only snow)
- New recipe for buns; they were really good
- Christmas mug
- When my youngest gets up in the morning he tugs his teddy in
- Christmas edition Coca-Cola; yes, I love Christmas. I've been counting down to this season since January;)
Thank you all for letting me share.
I am very grateful.

This week's #photodiary
- Time for Christmas edition Coca-Cola
- My mom's sweet, senior dog Shiba
- Day off, mending a cold, on the couch with my pillow and duvet, watching Paranormal Quest
- A page from my Faith Journal about 10 of God's promises (the picture with the rainbow says "Promise Keeper")
- Baking-zen
- Kings of Queens on the little television in my mom's kitchen while I was cooking dinner
- A beautiful sunrise. The most beautiful I've seen in a long while
- Lofi Girl Christmas live 2025
- The same sunrise 5 minutes earlier.
Thank you all for letting me share and for helping me to stay focused on the good.

I am keeping up with my personal challenge to take at least one photo each day for my #photodiary
Have been since September.
And I love to look back at all the photos - on all the good moments and glimmers.
This week's gratitude and glimmers:
- New nails
- Birthday breakfast table for my youngest
- Mini slider buns baked for the birthday dinner (the menu was bruschetta, big mac tortillas, sliders, and for dessert; carrot/squash cake with lemon cream cheese frosting)
- Homemade birthday card (I always make my own cards for my boys)
- A late blooming flower. I think it's actually a weed
- Put up Christmas lights and some decorations because I needed the coziness
- My favorite Christmas mug
- Stunning, flaming red sunset (the picture doesn't do it any kind of justice;)
- A collage as front page for November in my Faith Journal.
Thank you all for letting me share and keeping me accountable to my gratitude goals!

I've been posting pictures from my #photodiary in my Weekly glimmers and gratitude each Wednesday for a year now.
And wow; the support from you in my practice to focus on the good has been so amazing.
You've inspired me to keep going.
I suffer from numbness, dissociation, and anhedonia (the inability to experience joy or pleasure and less interested in things once enjoyed).
So being able to decide to focus on joy, gratitude, and glimmers despite all of this has had a VERY positive impact on my mental health and well-being.
THANK YOU💐

I am still challenging myself to take at least one photo each day of a glimmer or something I'm grateful for.
I am determined to help myself focus on the good when I can.
Because it helps my mental health so much - and it helps me to move from surviving to thriving.
So here's this week's #photodiary
- A favorite chocolate my kids bought me on their fall vacation/break
- Gorgeous morning with sunset
- Found a Halloween cookie my youngest really likes for his lunch treat
- Cute sticker and a mini study in the meaning of Jesus' name
- Fall leaves are really a full experience; the beautiful colors, the sound, and the sweet smell
- Completed week og Scripture Writing
- My toddler cousin being all cozy with his feet on my foot
- Some Halloween decorations and some light in the darkness
- Wonderful cup of morning coffee.
Thank you for letting me share and always being so kind to me!

I've really challenged myself to keep taking pictures every day.
To be on the look out for glimmers and gratitude.
To focus on those good moments - however fleeting.
This week's #photodiary
- Another patch of cold-risen buns
- Halloween oreos for my youngest's lunch (he gets one each day as a cozy treat)
- Taking pictures of the beautiful, morning moon with my youngest as we walked to school
- Time in The Word
- Gorgeous fall colors in the sun
- Fall French nails
- My mom's dog Shiba being all cute
- A magazine I got myself for my collages
- You guessed it; a pumpkin spice latte.
Thank you all for always being so kind and supportive.

Posting in the right group this week.
If you were looking for my #photodiary last week, it's in another group (Cheer Me On;).
I've really been focused on getting at least one picture of something good the last week.
And most days I had several pictures to choose from - such blessing!
- Making a collage as front page of my Faith Planner
- Beautiful fall sunrise
- A trip to the movies to see the last Downton Abbey movie
- Freshly baked cold-risen buns on rhe day with the first storm of fall
- An impressive sky with dramatic clouds
- A tracker for Scripture Writing
- The golden autumn light hitting my desk and my Bible
- First day in my warm slippers instead of flip-flops
- New Christmas stickers; I love stickers!

Posted in the wrong group;)
Should have been in Gratitude and Glimmers group...
But here's this week's #photodiary
- My mom's dog, Shiba, being a cutie and very ready for her morning walk
- Found a perfume I forgot, I had
- Beautiful sky with pink on blue
- Cooking with my youngest and my recipe notebook (sometimes I add stickers, washi, or pictures)
- Two gorgeous yellow flowers on a bush
- I am 2/3 though The Bible and I am so thankful I began to read it; what a journey!
- Afternoon sun in the windows
- Deep cleaned the kitchen; it was so bright afterwards
- My youngest folded my bedding for me.
Thank you for helping me to stay focused on the good.