Krissy Thomas

I’m not an “Englishman in New York,” but am an Indian-woman in Colorado.

Mountain Creek

I’m in the mountains today…I love the mountains.

When I’m in need of a break from the harshness of life…I run to the mountains.

As soon as I had my first car…I drove myself in that little old beat up car straight to “my” mountains.

When I need to think…I escape to the silence that I can only find in high altitude and pine trees.

I think it’s a funny thing…a girl from coastal south India who finds strength, peace and balance in the mountains.

So…where do you go to find peace and balance?

So today, I got the greatest gifts from those closest to me. I got a poem, a visit, an email and some phone calls and great treats at home.

I had a friend say, in a poem,  that I’m cooler than Blaise Pascal!!! Who would’ve thought such things could be true?!

Have I mentioned I love poems?

I had another friend bring me dinner and a gift!

Have I mentioned I love food and gifts?

Another friend wrote me a long heartfelt email!

Have I mentioned I love words…especially in long emails?

My son made me breakfast!

Have I mentioned how I love that my son knows me so well?

My daughter and I played in the rain

Have I mentioned how much I love being in the rain?

I took the dog to the vet

Did I mention they were so sweet to my dog and didn’t charge me for the office visit and told me there would be no charge to take out the stitches?

I feel like today was a “For Me?” kind of day…where people went intentionally out of their way to make me feel loved. Well, guess what, you did it folks, I feel loved. So there, are you happy? I know I am!

I got to hold a brand new baby today. He wasn’t even 24 hours old yet. It’s amazing what happens to me as I hold babies, especially, newborns. I love staring at their little faces. So Perfect. Everything just the way God intended for each little one to be.

Perfect little eyes, a wee little nose, a precious little mouth, itty bitty little ears. A perfect hairline and precious precious baby hairs following the curves that only the Creator himself could’ve made by running his fingers over each baby’s head.

What an amazing little gift and responsibility each and every child is. I sit there and think of all the experiences ahead for the little one and his mom and dad.

I go into a place in my brain where I run through all the memories in fast forward with my babies…everything from pregnancy to delivery to today…now.All those sleepless nights that blur and fade into all the little milestones, holidays, birthdays, laughter, tears, frustrations, sicknesses, experiences…and hopes for the future.

I think my favorite part today of holding this little one was whispering in his ear that I love him and how excited I am that he’s finally here and how I can’t wait  to see him grow into all the days ahead.

Amazing…no other way to explain it.

perfect little feet

Picture by deweller

Want the 411 on what I’m thankful for

The date! Guys, it’s 4/11 today! Okay fine, that’s not all.

I’m thankful for so much today. My heart is seriously ready to burst with gratitude to God.

The other day I was thinking of how annoying I can get when I start settling on all the minor details of life. The things that go wrong or the things that get in the way of me reaching my daily goals. I am guilty of focusing on the negative and forgetting how fully blessed I am. On Thursday evening I decided to count my blessings and little by little over the weekend, I’ve reached this point on Sunday evening where I’m feeling blessed beyond words.

Lemme rewind the weekend for you starting an hour ago:

• Lucy and I went for a walk at the park and I took her leash off so she could run around like the maniac dog she is.
• Listened to “An Hour To Live” by Richard and Christine Carlson
• Grocery shopping
• Library time where I got: (Zig Zigler’s autobiography and also Stephen Colbert’s “I Am America(And So Can You),” I know, quite the range of book titles.)
• Hot shower
• Did the Incline and had an absolutely amazing time of worship with very little oxygen.
• Cleaned up dog pee from the carpet
• Sweet text messages
• Dinner and great conversation with my sister from another mother.
• scrubbed toilets and cleaned the kitchen and vacuumed the floors
• Birthday party for one of the cutest baby boys ever!
• Ran almost 11 miles and felt so very alive!
• Woke up too early on a Saturday morning
• Got home way late after driving home from Denver.
• Dinner with my brothers and some cousins visiting from out of town.
• Borrowed a copy of the book “Love and Respect” after randomly seeing it on a bookshelf after having conversation about it the night before.
• Drove to Denver
• Received a super meaningful email
• Deep conversation about life and love over IM. Love technology!
• Work at Compassion
• Sent out invites to my birthday party!:)
• Dr’s appointments for the kids
• Brainstormed some birthday ideas for others close to me.

Seemingly random and unimportant things on this list…Mostly things that are not life shattering. But each one of these things represents the most important details of my life. The things I value and treasure. The things that I count as blessings.                  I think it’s only because of the  difficulties of life that I can fully appreciate the beauty and joy in the simplest things…including but not limited only to… cleaning dog pee out of the carpet.

If you could walk out of the office, house, building, school, wherever you are to find a taxi waiting outside with your packed bags and you get to choose where you go…WHERE WOULD YOU GO?! Tell me now!