Some days are not really the stuff of extraordinary moments – the kind you’d write about in your journal and remember for years.

They’re just a series of ordinary moments infused with a kind of contentment that leaves you feeling at peace in your corner of the world.

Last Thursday was such a day.

Sleeping in an extra hour to make up for the hour I spent wide awake in the middle of the night. Starting the day with a vanilla flavored coffee accompanied by the NYT puzzles. Making six guesses in Wordle and still not solving it – but nonetheless admiring the word they chose.

Expending elbow grease scrubbing clean the kiln shelf for my husband, so it’s ready to refinish with kiln wash for his next glass project. Seeing Dave sharpen the kitchen knives and knowing how much we’ll appreciate his efforts the next time we go to slice a tomato.

Booking tickets for an upcoming comedy play at the Station Arts Centre so we have something to look forward to that will hopefully make us laugh.

Expressing my thoughts on FB about a change in our local newspaper and following the responses that roll in.

Watering the outdoor plant pots that are wilting in the sun. Stooping to sniff the first of the sweet pea blossoms each time I pass by the trellis on which they are climbing.

Enjoying a cool salad for lunch in the shade of the umbrella on the back deck, while reading a few pages of a novel I won’t remember two weeks from now.

Delivering four bags of bottles to SARCAN and tucking away the $20 to share with the young grandsons when they come for a visit later this month.  Treating myself to a Tim Horton’s Ice Cappuccino and honey cruller (thanks to a gift card from my sister for my birthday).

Dipping into the first few pages of Elizabeth Gilbert’s book, Big Magic. Reflecting on the concept of eudemonia (the state or condition of good spirit). Seeing my husband out the door to his regular Thursday gathering with a group of buddies. Contemplating a late afternoon nap.

Yep…it was an ordinary day for which I found myself feeling inordinately grateful.