A Lesson on Celebrating

Cheers to our people;

To the ones we find with purpose, and the ones who find us.

Cheers to lightness, memes, and text chains.

To solidarity.

To sharing sorrows with a heaping dose of grace.

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Cheers to date nights;

To when the stars (and childcare) align to make them happen.

To connection and reflection.

To remembering when it was just us two.

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Cheers to rest;

To when your kid (finally) starts sleeping through the night.

To giving yourself permission—even though you don’t need that.

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Cheers to the ordinary;

To January afternoons that feel like Spring,

To bursting from the shadows of the cold, even just for a few hours.

To the stranger in front of you buying your coffee.

To reminders of goodness and kindness, when headlines are dripping with despair.

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Cheers to the in-between;

To quieting our homes, our schedules, our hearts.

To embracing the unknowns and finding what fuels our souls.

To the temporary, to the flexible, to the searching.

To the bittersweet reminder that all seasons pass.

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Cheers to celebrating;

To seemingly insignificant joys.

To the smallest wins.

To the mundane.

For they are far more significant than we could ever know.

This post is part of a blog hop with Exhale—an online community of women pursuing creativity alongside motherhood, led by the writing team behind Coffee + Crumbs. Click here to view the next post in the series "Cheers!".