Monthly Archives: March 2012

Gratitude

1. God

2. Nancy is out of the hospital

3. Someone helping her after her car accident

4. Hannah getting the care she needs

5. Visualization tapes

6. Self assessment

7. Magnolias in bloom

8. Chris and everything he does

9.  Cassie

10. Gratitude lists

Thank You Thank You

Gratitude

1. Fixed WLG’s registration- I didn’t realize it was broken! Please, join away. =D

2. A sleeping baby = able to type & fix things

3. The way my heart floods when she wakes up

4. Great advice from my aunt who has 3 boys- she’s the best!

5. A big care package from my fam- all sorts of wonderful (and useful!) things for my little girl

6. My husband’s sense of humor

7. Carol’s dance of spring! We couldn’t stay long, but it was so fun to dance around the spring tree and see everyone!

8. Daffodils

9. Flowering trees

10. This moment

Gratitude

1. God

2. Warm days

3. Ken calling through my window

4. Tina and Donna stepping up

5. Discovery

6. Kind emails from Susan

7. Jean’s pride and joy for her son-in-law returning from military deployment

8. Helen’s gratitude for “enough” and “more than enough”

9. Hannah’s dress fit (and “you can’t make alterations on a dress you haven’t bought”)

10. So surprised David likes shrimp I made a special trip to get him some

Cookies and Wrinkles

Gratitude

Very Grateful for~

God’s angels
Amelia’s excitement about returning to the classroom after Spring Break
all the birds around our house and their individual calls; it sounds a bit like a Tiki Room
Jean’s positive spirit
warm, chocolate chip cookies
a course to teach
the iron to press out all wrinkles in the clothes
Enough
And more than enough

Everyone has a unique role to fill in the world and is important in some respect. Everyone, including and especially you, is indispensable. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

This is the day….

Gratitude
  • This is the day that our son-in-law can finally kisstheground in the United States of America…
  • …after a year of deployment…soon he’ll be Home home!  Hooray!!!
  • Went to the lake this morning after it had rained and the freshness of the air was wonderful…
  • …the surrounding mountains had some covered with snow and others with patches of snow, so lovely…
  • …visited with two young men who were taking their boat out to catch “whatever fish they could”…
  • …visited with two oldtimer anglers who had been fishing from shore for several hours and hadn’t caught anything, when lo and behold, one of them caught a 3# rainbow trout, an absolutely beautiful fish!  and then another a few minutes later (they told us to stay because we brought them good luck LOL)
  • Here’s one for your bucket list:  If you haven’t been to Butte America on St. Patrick’s Day, you haven’t seen it all…a fascinating experience!
  • “This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.”  Psalm 118:24

singing and playing

Gratitude

Very Grateful for~

God’s messengers
singing
playing
Animal Planet
Garrett’s mention of Belle’s article in his list

Purging out some things: “All these things are padding our egos and weighing down our spirits. When we’re not in touch with our inner self, we identify with things to feel whole.” Belle Pirri in this post

Nodding my head so vigorously with Belle’s point, I almost needed a chiropractor: “We ‘gather’ to try to make up for a ‘lack.’”

Belle’s guidance to “Shine light on the fear created by our stories”

And her wise advice: “When you’re preoccupied with things, pay attention. You’re hanging out with the ego.” (Oh, my, there goes the nodding again)

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise. ~George Bernard Shaw

 

Gratitude

1. God

2. Irish soda bread

3. Boiled dinner

4. Michel and Bill came (they were not boiled)

5. also Diane and Sarah

6. Cassie loves to entertain

7. Working in the kitchen together

8. Satisfaction from cleaning

9. Exercises in self-assessment

10. Phone time with Bob S., he helped with something that had been on my mind

Pampered Poodle talks and walks

Gratitude

Very Grateful for~

God’s sense of humor

sunscreen
Banana Republic t-shirts…they do not have the pesky, scratchy tag in the neck and i know this is pretty pampered poodle of me, but it really makes a difference
Kleenex
taco salad
Ruby’s retractable leash
penmanship (almost an antiquated word)
a snake by the lake (glad it was over there)
online photo galleries to store pictures

“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced

and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.” ~William Faulkner