1. God
2. You
3. Silent music
4. Happy memories
5. Cool evenings
6. Cool mornings
7. Reminders
8. Focus
9. Attention
10. Appreciation

1. Being here, in good company. “Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. ” -AESOP
2. Listening to the rain, which sounds like magic, and feels soul healing
3. New breathing techniques
4. Taking charge of my day
5. And returning to my love of writing
6. Impromptu visit to the pool- love having that for the girls
7. Time this morning to write while my MIL watched the girls
8. Feeling missed in a social circle I was sure had forgotten me
9. Amping up
10. This wonderful life

• My cozy warm bedroom tonight
• My new desk lamp, got it for a third of the original price.
• Spontanously buying a hot dog at the gaz station, and enjoying .. this for me.. rare meal
• To see that a big emotional obstacle is melting, maybe even on  it’s way to vanish..
• Thousands of things to should be done – i chose not to follow that road – and it feels good:0)
• Watching Obama meeting our former prime minister tonight – they look like old friends – and i’m happy they are around my age too
• Photo booth on my mac  brought forward the four year old giggling mee tonight
• Luckily she is just beneath the hurry worry mask.

Grateful for the progress May brought.

A new roof,getting my daughter moved,little repairs and my new garden gnome.

Hanging baskets so easy to take care of and they brighten things up. I have two petunias,one begonia,three herbs and a lobelia.

Finding just the  right accent bag to go with my Mother’s day present.

Recommiting to clean eating (Dr’s appt next month)

Time to add movement into the mix

New recipes and new food ideas

Watching my daughter brown four pounds of ground turkey. She couldn’t get her stove to work :). Remembering when we would buy a tube of hamburg and creatively stretch it into many meals.

Being able to pay the last of the month’s bills

A calm Memorial Day. I’m feeling better!

What’s next? Who knows? I can face it because life is good,

1. God
2. Roses
3. Plants everywhere
4. Gratitude forward
5. An unknown road
6. Noticing silence in the car early in the morning
7. Cool breezes
8. OK in the present

1  Good habits – posting being one !

2  Hydration

3  Clean

4  Giving without thinking or expecting !

5  Being half way there

6  Washers and dryers – laudromats being an inconvenient, distant memory !

7  Knowing where things are !

8  The unconditional Love of pets ( put your spouse and dog in the trunk of your car on a hot summers day, drive a hundred miles, open the trunk and see who’s pleased to see you :)

9  A quiet peaceful Holiday

10  Being impervious to sales!

1. I’m grateful we happened upon a parade, and instead of being annoyed, we got out and watched it
2. I’m grateful for the Marines, when they marched in perfect unison and the crowd clapped I cried. I remember (not the Marines, but army) seeing the color guard when I was a kid, and hearing taps
3. I’m grateful for boundaries, in my life and as I learn more, and how healthy and loving they can be
4. I’m grateful for new books that are exactly what I need to read
5. I’m grateful for the gym and being able to take the girls swimming now, and how much Ava loves it
6. I’m grateful that Hannah is growing, and when I set her on the grass today, instead of bending her knees to sit, she stood and balanced hands-free
7. I’m grateful for an abundance of good food to eat, anytime, and close access to it
8. I’m grateful my daughter and I have fun together
9. I’m grateful for sharing the same perspective with my husband
10. I’m grateful for a place to be consistently grateful, that reminds me to practice the greatest power I have, on a daily basis

• Craft beer sampling
• Invitations to celebrate friends Birthdays
• Laughing till I cry with DB & BA
• Meeting many new people and getting along great
• KD listening to my Monday morning vent
• WL introducing me to new opportunities
• My family
• MO learning to do her own laundry
• The engine light in my car turning off…all I saw was a $
• This site :)

I’m not discounting the sacrifices our Armed Forces have made and continue to make but today I’m adrift in memories.It bothered me that though I have been a mother for nearly forty years and a mother to the one who set her course recently I have so few memories.

But thanks for the memories!

Remembering finding out I was expecting when my family was complete! Surprise!

Such a sweet child  if they wanted to resent her she soon had them under her spell.

Fast forward to three years old. Big sister goes to college in Michigan . I was not allowed to cry but sister saying goodbye to sister choked me up. Meg says part way home “let’s go back and get her”.

Jamie,big sister’s boyfriend . His hair was long (then) and he said he didn’t like kids, Within a day Megan was hanging a monkey from barrel of monkeys from his ear. He was captivated! We captured him and he remains a son and brother in good standing!

Babysitters-good and bad. Allie was her second Mom. A little tougher than me but when you have a crew you can’t cater to one. I remember when she was caring for five or six kids with chicken pox.I remember calling Allie and saying Meg has one chicken pox. She checked all of them over and the next day they erupted.

Grade school is a blur.Middle school are the lost years. Her friend Hannah. Sleepovers where she took a giant tiger and lion.

High school she was sick and the many tests brought us closer. It was so hard to get blood I wanted to say here take mine.

The banking course that would guide her into a career. Going to the Language Village in Minnesota.

Akron University. She became an Resident Advisor. Many moves.

Graduation and back home. Her first car. Totaling her first car. Her new car.Her first job. Her second job. Her best job. Planning for the future.

I’m grateful for all of you for listening to me go on! I guess I have more memories than I thought. If you have little ones write things down because the memories fade like smoke and then they are gone. Your child is gone!

• Got to see John Nash and our young chess champignon Magnus Carlsen’s  lovely meeting..in Oslo last week
• Irland  showering love by accepting gay marriages
• Reading science on how  keeping daily gratitude journal prove to have great impact on melting depressions – improvements comes quickly
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2zfqxOnCFo – he sings and plays around the Art of Walking
• Thank you for this Green Oasis