Creating a Productive day and Celebrating a friend! ⋆ Christine Gautreaux MSW

Creating a Productive day and Celebrating a friend!

The start to the day was grey on the morning trip to the HS

Today has been a “hit the ground running” day since I woke up at 4:50am (ps. that is waaay to early). It started with a great session of am yoga and then I was off! There were only grey skies on the morning trip to the HS so no gorgeous sunrise to report – Mother nature knew I didn’t have time to stop and marvel this morning :)Went to see the Dr. for bloodwork and biometrics for insurance – I’m looking forward to getting the results on Monday and comparing them to last years since I have officially been doing the Paleo lifestyle for over a year now. Joe and I had breakfast together afterwards since we both had to go and we had been fasting since midnight. It was a nice treat 🙂 I’m prepping for an International Festival for our Duluth Girl Scout’s Service Unit which is tomorrow night. Our troop is representing Guatemala. So a friend and mom in the troop is from Guatemala went with me to the Farmer’s Market to get the supplies she needed to cook some authentic food for our booth. More errands, phone calls and “stuff” taken care of amounted to a very productive day. It still has a ways to go since I have a Coaches/Parent’s Meeting tonight for the Volleyball teams I coach at the YMCA and then it’s off to Alex’s Philharmonic Orchestra Concert at the High school which is always a treat to listen too.

The beautiful flowers in +Ellen McCorkle ‘s yard that greeted me on Tuesday

Where was my DCP? Today it will be this blog, listening to wonderful classical music tonight and a quick shout out to my friend +Ellen McCorkle for our terrifically fun and creative Tuesday. Ellen is a master potter and lets me play in her Garagio with her.

Here is part of what I created on Tuesday – not sure why the pic came in upside down 🙂

She is also a fabulous cook who spoils me rotten and I LOVE it 🙂 I’m so lucky to have her in my life – she definitely helps me to be creative with clay and food and together we have tons of fun!

The beautiful & AIP friendly lunch my friend +Ellen McCorkle made me on Tuesday 🙂

About the Author: Christine Gautreaux, MSW

Christine Gautreaux, MSW is dedicated to the pursuit of play, joy, art & social justice. Christine’s superpowers include connecting people, helping folks manifest their dreams, standing up against injustice and using art to make a difference in the world. She currently uses Interplay to address issues of oppression with people living with severe and persistent mental illness, homelessness, women refugees, racial justice and women who are incarcerated. Christine believes in the power of body wisdom and somatic play to help heal trauma. She also works with professional caregivers, activists and artists to maintain balance and self-care during these intense times we find ourselves living. Christine Gautreaux holds a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Social Work. Christine is a professional speaker, coach & author and entrepreneur and the owner of Wisdom on Wings Coaching. Christine is the co-author of Stillpoint: A Caregivers Playbook to find ease and to take a deep breath and reclaim joy. www.christinegautreaux

3 Comments

Ellen February 21, 2014 at 2:34 am - Reply

Ditto! 🙂
TJ Worthington February 21, 2014 at 1:54 pm - Reply

Christine, your day sounds like a year for me. Good thing you hit the ground running. It exhausted me just reading your activities. It's like getting tired watching somebody else work. It's a measure of how engaged you are in relation to how disengaged I am. About needed a nap after reading it. As we say in the hills, "I'm jist a-pickin." Meaning it's in fun, I'm not being serious. Beautiful pictures you posted with it.
Christine Gautreaux February 21, 2014 at 6:43 pm - Reply

TJ – 🙂 last week was a hibernating winter week and this week has felt more like spring!!