All posts by Jean

  • Welcome Spring rain yesterday…winter wonderland today
  • Sleeping giant on top of white fluffy clouds yesterday…covered with snowy blanket  today :)
  • Hot tea
  • Fresh ginger
  • Power outage for only half an hour…God Bless those diligent Linemen!!
  • C&A’s exciting news!
  • GPa’s super new doc at the VA
  • GPa’s wonderful health report!
  • Rebecca consistently cheerful and helpful
  • Always grateful for the VA at Ft. Harrison!

  • Happy April !
  • Love these beautiful warm sunshiny days :)
  • Al & Sue back from their winter in AZ
  • Delightful call from my Florida friend of many years
  • Another enjoyable day with Cathy :)
  • We finally have a Hobby Lobby…what a fun place!…
  • …it takes a while here in mail order Montana LOL
  • GPa so grateful for Abe helping him with home repairs!
  • Family ! 

  • Grateful for the blessing of a beautiful and healthy baby girl born into our family yesterday :)
  • And, as you know, yesterday was Pi day….did you know that Albert Einstein was born on March 14 (1879)? 
  • GPa’s good news from the eye doc :)
  • Amanda’s (International Womens Day) awesome tribute to the women in our family…great!
  • Like those cute smiley face scrubbies…makes those tasks more pleasant :):)
  • Chocolate comes from cocoa which is a tree…that makes it a plant which means…chocolate is salad!
  • Easter candy is in egg form…it qualifies as breakfast food!

  • My wonderful and amazing family….God’s Blessings!
  • Lunch with Cathy and Deedee….totally fun :)
  • Did you know that the Helena, MT, Macy’s is the smallest on the planet? :)
  • “Girl shopping”….smiles, laughter, energy
  • We three also exchanged books ….
  • Sydney Banks and the 3 Principles
  • “The Enlightened Gardner” & “The Enlightened Gardner Revisited”  –  Sydney Banks …
  • ….where he takes the reader on a visit to Torquay, England…seaside town, English Riviera…
  • …Palm Trees in England!?! :)

  • Fun unexpected phone call from my cousin Tom….Wis. dairy farmer….maple syrup :)
  • Amanda working on her conversational French
  • GPa meeting another Korean veteran…war stories :)
  • True story:  remembering the huge train wreck on Feb. 2, some 25+ yrs. ago, at about 3a.m….it was minus 72 degrees with wind chill !! Yes, 72 degrees below zero :(  Explosion woke us up!  The windows at the Carroll College dorms were blown out… grateful because no one was seriously injured throughout it all….night before the dorm students had pulled their beds away from the windows and covered the windows with the curtains to keep out the cold…a blessing.  The students were transported to a safe place and they were lining up to use a phone to call parents….no cell phones then!  Property damage throughout a large area….our home was okay….went to work that day and pitched in for those people who were not able to be there. 
  • David watching the Broncos parade in Denver…got good pics of Peyton as well :)
  • Cathy back from her fun trip to Florida :)
  • Harry with his white “santa” beard….when he saw our overloaded grocery basket at the store he exclaimed “Holy Christmas! You’re gonna have to get a job!” …to pay for the groceries, of course LOL  Good ole Harry, gotta love him :) 

  • Happy Birthday, Cathy!
  • A grateful Blessing
  • Thoughtful
  • Kind, generous, loving, smiles
  • Making the planet a better place
  • Life Coach
  • Awesome Mother and Grandmother
  • Yellow….Sunshine…summer…warm climates
  • Travel
  • “Invisible Power” -K.Manning,R.Charbit,S. Krot

Music

  • Library of Congress Gershwin Awards
  • Honoring Willie Nelson
  • Brought back memories of GPa’s love of music which began with his Dad who had an orchestra and could play most all the instruments.
  • Remembering our camping trips at the lake where GPa would play the guitar and sing while everyone at the campground gathered around for hours.
  • One year bought our three children each a guitar to teach them…they loved it.
  • Oh, and when he was young he also learned to play the trumpet…until his younger sister decided to clean it, took it apart, washed it, and tried to put it back together..
  • Oh Oh…
  • Love music of many kinds…country western, folk, jazz, Latin American, piano, opera, saxophone, guitar, brass….. 

  • Snow/rain/ice/cold/warm…today…take your pick:)
  • Tetley green tea
  • Quiet times
  • Surprising NFL games this weekend
  • Grateful for labels I placed on stored boxes
  • A picture of GPa taken in Japan many years ago
  • VCR of GPa mining for gold…yes, he had a gold mine :)
  • How pictures tell our stories
  • More of Creative Spiritual Women

Happy New Year 2016!

  • Many more years of health, good thoughts, God’s Abundant Blessings!
  • Cathy’s referral to 2016 as “Sweet 16”  :)
  • Waking up at midnight by the fireworks booming in our area…opportunity to welcome 2016 :)
  • Minus 1 temp this morning….is now sunny and a bit warmer
  • Tournament of Roses…what awesome talents and effort!
  • Goals
  • Family
  • Reading  “My Ishmael, A Sequel”  (was glad to see the gorilla was back :):)
  • The looks of pure joy and pleasure of those who received the gift of  “Creative Spiritual Women” … it was great!
  • Thankful for having another year of friendship with each of you here at  We Love Gratitude!!!!

  • Trimming the tree :)
  • Christmas music playing
  • Treasured ornaments…
  • …some my Mother’s…some our children’s when they were in grade school…memories!:)
  • Pam at the eye doc’s office…she is consistently cheerful and pleasant to each person, truly delightful and compassionate and helpful
  • Snow
  • Grateful, again, for the crews who are up early and sanding our roads
  • 8 degrees today with sun shining, beautiful and fresh
  • The lovely and cheerful Christmas atmosphere at the nursing home we visited