Monthly Archives: July 2014

treasures

Gratitude
  • Treasured faith
  • Treasured books
  • Treasured phone calls…today from my son
  • Treasured memories of a warm summer evening
  • Treasured births of ggrandchildren
  • Treasured piece of wood from a magical place I visited
  • Treasured friends WLG
  • Treasured ocean vacations
  • Treasured holidays
  • Treasured now, this moment

Gratitude

1. God

2. Laughing at the hollyhocks

3. Found myself in a strange town.  actually it is the town where I was raised. they didn’t know and they had to go.

4. no use in worrying or hurrying

5. Closeness

6. Triplets (in rhythm)

7. Passing a zucchini and some flowers to Clothilda across the fence

8. Patient and reasonable people on the telephone who helped me sort out business stepwise

9. Thank you, Amy

10.

Babymoon

Gratitude
  1. Blissful time with baby,  just the two of us
  2. And time again with my toddler, while dad holds the baby, which makes her day
  3. Family
  4. Dear friends
  5. Prayers. For friends, for family, for everything- prayer is woven through our lives.
  6. Early bedtime
  7. Comfortable progress
  8. Stretching in my new skin
  9. Memory
  10. This

Gratitude

1. God

2. Not just seeing a sight but the rock crystal thing

3. Something like this

4. Putting a package in the mail

5.klol, I guess that’s Pegasus’ contribution, he just walked across the keyboard

6. Rose of Sharon

7. Shaking sticks and there’s still more

8. Small towns

9. Something each new day brings

10. Shades of green especially light and dark emerald

 

Gratitude

Very Grateful for:

God’s Rain
hearing the gentle rain
the birthday of Hannah Belle!!!! Congratulations Crystal and Mark! Welcome Hannah Belle!
Garrett’s kind gratitude post … always
nice friends and fun tennis
deciding not to play along
holding back from saying “I Told You So” …
…but doing a silent “I Told You So” dance instead! http://youtu.be/IV4sB7O97ro
the research that shows counting just 3 gift-blessings/day increases happiness by 25% (McCullough et al., 2002)

“Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back”~Publilius Syrus

Home

Gratitude
  1. Bringing our beautiful baby girls home from the hospital yesterday- big sister and little sister both fell asleep on the ride
  2. My oldest playing with her cousins who are in town, good timing
  3. Standing my ground
  4. Yet in another situation, not saying what I could have brought me greater peace
  5. Reflecting on the labor and delivery with a dear friend
  6. Every moment I get to hold my daughters
  7. Little one’s squeeks and pips
  8. Her blue eyes
  9. And calm spirit
  10. This

Gratitude
  • The universe welcoming Crystal’s precious baby girl!
  • Palindromes
  • Helena, MT, celebrating 150 yrs. on 7/14/14…
  • …4 prospectors discovering gold on Last Chance Gulch…
  • …speculation of gold still there, “Helena City of Gold” :)
  •  Scott passing his final exam!
  • A cool rainy day…
  • …great for roast chicken and dressing :)
  • Cookie going from room to room and “burying” her treasured new bone :)
  • “When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know; but when you listen, you may learn something new.”   -Dalai Lama

Gratitude

1. God

2. A cloud in the shape of Louisiana

3. A sycamore in the shape of itself

4. Products of observation and imagination

5. Hats – sometimes exchanging them, protecting my head from the sun

6. Zucchini and summer squash on the vines like a daily treasure hunt

7. Talking with Susana on her way to Montreal

8. A woman named Mo, I enjoy listening to her and she admitted “My truth is never my first response”

9. The weather map and a plug in that shows lightning bolts in proximity

10. Why I went and came back