First of all, I pray for the people of Minnesota, for comfort and healing from their trauma. I pray they continue to work together and support each really in a way that continues to unite the whole country against brutality.

I feel like compared to what people in Minnesota are going through, what people in Ukraine are going through, my concerns don’t matter.

But I know God doesn’t think like that. He loves all of us and our concerns, our cares, matter to him. He wants to comfort us through our particular sorrows and pains, and to celebrate our wins, and to just be with us in the mundane minute-by-minute minutiae. . . Washing dishes, wiping the table, etc. Today, I was definitely starting to feel a little bit of cabin fever, but then we did a workout together, the boys played, and then we roasted a chicken, which turned out really yummy, thankfully, because we were all really looking forward to it. Tomorrow, we have to finish the assigned book with the youngest, and I have to try to do some more work on a mindfulness project I am working on with a new friend from Kentucky. I really need that now – deep breathing, stretching, reflecting. I am feeling frustrated with the disobedience of one of the kiddoes. But I know I need to stay calm. Cue the rosary and the breathing. And most of all, gratitude practice. I am thankful for another good day. Just one snow day at a time!