One year - aversary.

One year ago today we woke up on the hard floor in our empty house then watched as the moving guys unloaded our entire life from the van. It's fun to have a point of reference like that to look back over the past year and appreciate how good its been, how far we've come.

I remember a couple of days before we moved in I was able to get into the house and walk thru it by myself. I stood in the empty living and promised the house, my Self, the Universe that this huge change, this upheaval in our lives would be worth it. I swore that in this house I would become the Graceful Deva, whoever she turned out to be.

Its so cool that on this day when my family is acknowledging, if not really celebrating, our having been here for a full year, that the "first seventh" Harry Potter movie opens. We're going tonight as a family. I'm the uber Harry geek, but the whole family has joined me on the fringes of my geekdom. I love that there's something this fun to do on this particular night.

We're hosting Thanksgiving at our house next week and today I started going through some boxes of Christmas decorations to start putting the house in the holiday mood. We didn't "do" Christmas last year because we had just moved in and there were boxes everywhere. It seemed significant today that I opened the boxes of my merry snowmen collection and said hello to those old friends I hadn't seen since 2008. I can still remember where I got each and every one of them.

I've done well on my first week of the Photo365 project. The photos are all on the GracefulDeva.com Gallery of Grace if you want to check in on my progress.

This has truly been the Reddest Day Ever!

In Grace,

Kell