Three Things...Gratitude Thread

[L.K.]

#1 - I’m grateful for all my bundt cake recipes that I have - I love making bundt cakes

I've just started making bundt cakes. Made some individual strawberry lemonade bundt cakes a few weeks ago. Brought a smile to my DH and DD, who both inherited grandma's sweet tooth.

 

[L.K.]

Did someone say LOBSTER ROLL?????? YES please !!!!! PRETTY PLEASE with sugar in top?? Can you fedex me one ???

I can’t get them here !! I miss them so much ! Costco used to sell bulk lobster so for a treat ( once a year ) I would get some lobster and make lobster rolls - heaven !!!!! I always get them when I go to WDW I’d get a whole lobster but I’d have to sell one if my organs to pay what Disney charges for a lobster

Add me to the lobster roll lover's club.

 

[L.K.]

Treats

A good sour taffy
Cheddar Lay's
Huckleberries

 

[mumto3girls]

Treats:
1. Sugar cream pie—I don’t make it very often, but it is delicious.
2. Tollhouse pie—see above
3. Hot fudge sundae—I really just want the hot fudge, but feel like I can’t eat just that. LOL

 

[leebee]

Did anyone say lobster rolls?
Although not cheap, if lobster drops to below $10 a pound, we'll get enough to have lobster rolls. The grocery stores here will steam them while you shop, although it's smarter to call in your order and get a pick-up time. We bring them home, pick them, chop the meat, and add diced celery and mayo. That gets piled into a New England style, grilled hot dog roll and voila! Lunch... usually with chips or potato salad (or just a 2nd lobster roll)!

Also like to bring them home and have boiled potatoes and corn on the cob, ready to go for a shore dinner. I miss adding steamers to this, but they are stupidly expensive. One expensive entree per meal, right? Seriously, though... even here in Maine, lobster isn't cheap most of the time, and all winter it was around $20 a pound. We've been lucky, though, and a couple of times it's dropped into my "acceptable" price range. Scallops are normally around $22 a pound, so we wait for them to go on sale at about $12 a pound before we enjoy them, too. I always tell myself, it's more affordable than going OUT for seafood.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

3 tools

Smell good markers
Tiny screwdrivers
Strawberry huller

Did anyone say lobster rolls?
Although not cheap, if lobster drops to below $10 a pound, we'll get enough to have lobster rolls. The grocery stores here will steam them while you shop, although it's smarter to call in your order and get a pick-up time. We bring them home, pick them, chop the meat, and add diced celery and mayo. That gets piled into a New England style, grilled hot dog roll and voila! Lunch... usually with chips or potato salad (or just a 2nd lobster roll)!

Also like to bring them home and have boiled potatoes and corn on the cob, ready to go for a shore dinner. I miss adding steamers to this, but they are stupidly expensive. One expensive entree per meal, right? Seriously, though... even here in Maine, lobster isn't cheap most of the time, and all winter it was around $20 a pound. We've been lucky, though, and a couple of times it's dropped into my "acceptable" price range. Scallops are normally around $22 a pound, so we wait for them to go on sale at about $12 a pound before we enjoy them, too. I always tell myself, it's more affordable than going OUT for seafood.

OMG delicious ! When lunch’s ? I’m coming over - I’ll bring ALL the sides & soda !!! Who’s in ?

Edit - I’ll be flying up as I’m NOT driving to Maine - done that too many times it’s exhausting / I’ll fly so I can be there in time for lunch !!!

Seriously - I can’t obtain the right kind of rolls to make my Lobster Rolls out here and it’s so frustrating
I still think Linda Bean had the Best Lobster Rolls ever at F&W at EPCOT and I miss ordering lobster from her online . I rarely buy seafood out here it just doesn’t taste as good as in Maine or Florida and I don’t care to hear how they fly it in fresh whatever it’s still not the same !

 

[PollyannaMom]

Today's Topic - 3 things you're grateful for that involve numbers

 

[slo]

It’s the weekend

#1 - I’m grateful for a calculator, any calculator - I’m not good doing math in my head

#2 - I’m grateful for my phone - gotta have numbers to call people

#3 - I’m grateful for my Chase Southwest - having a credit card number allows me to charge everything to get free flights

 

[nw6675]

Numbers

1. Phone numbers to keep in touch
2. Street numbers to get my deliveries
3. I love math

 

[nw6675]

Extra which should have been first:

Bible verse references.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

My whole life is numbers - I do Accounting !! I do nothing but numbers all the live long days

I’m grateful for positive numbers in my checking account - helps that I’m in charge of payroll

I agree with SLO - gotta love that Southwest Visa - wanna get away ? Yes please !!

I’m always grateful when I balance - I’m always saying - Praise Jesus or Amen when it balances - my coworkers always chuckle at me ! But trust me I mean it - you don’t want to be looking for $$$ for an hour or longer ! People don’t understand we balance to the penny ! It’s never one thing that’s wrong it’s usually a couple ! It’s from being interrupted constantly while you’re working, and then forgetting what you were doing!
I manage 9 companies and about 20 credit cards that have several people on them - so yup my life is all about numbers !

 

[WDWEPCOT]

Side note - I can do math in my head - but try teaching that to someone - omg thank God your phone has a calculator because it’s beyond some people to grasp it - it’s the equivalent of teaching me to fix something - that dog don’t hunt sadly my phone won’t fix things and all the You tube videos in the World won’t help either

 

[PollyannaMom]

The game Nerdle - like Wordle, but with equations

License plate numbers - so we don't mix up our cars with others the same model/color

The old Schoolhouse Rock multiplication songs

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Holy Trinity, God 3 in 1
Scripture Verses
Birthdays

 

[Tink-osophy]

I've got to stop reading about all your favorite treats! It's making me hungry. Strawberry lemonade cake. Hot Fudge. Sour taffy....

NUMBERS

Just looking at the scoreboard for a Wimbledon tennis match. Wimbledon is a fab. 2 weeks of the year, for me. (I'm sad for Andy Murray, after yesterday, but it was amazing to see him playing like he used to, again.)

Christmas Advent Calendars.

Recipes.

Yahtzee!

 

[Tink-osophy]

I’m grateful for positive numbers in my checking account - helps that I’m in charge of payroll

Also, I nearly wrote this, then, for some reason, got distracted and wrote Yahtzee instead! What was I thinking? Though Yahtzee is a good game.

ETA: I agree about math/maths being a challenge to teach. There are so many ways to approach and comprehend it.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Amen to Advent calendars, Tink-osophy, great answer!

 

[DaisyDuck001]

Weather forecasts: they aren't always right, but it's helpful to at least have an idea of what's likely.
Numbered highways.
Airplane flights.

 

[leebee]

Numbers!!! I taught math through special ed for 10 years- three years as in-class support in 8th grade, then 7 years as individualized instruction, where the kids came to me for their lessons, for K-5. I love numbers!

>My checkbook/bank accounts. Yes, I still have a checkbook, still write the occasional check (maybe 3 a month). During covid when the mail was always late I started setting up automatic payments on my credit cards, but I peruse the billing statement (hard copy, I'm a hard-copy girl) every month to make sure the charges are ours, and then schedule the payment, record it in the checkbook, and deduct the amount to make sure that the money will be in there when the bill is paid. I balance all accounts at the end of the month, and we balance to the penny every month. This is important to me. I feel it's too easy these days, to just have money auto-deposited and then bills auto-paid in full. I have friends who never know how much money they actually have, what their actual resources are, and are always overdrawing. I couldn't stand that.

>Decks of cards. We play cribbage and rummy fairly frequently, and as a spin-off from those we play Rumikub and Farkle. Both are numbers/patterns based games.

>I NEVER in my lifetime thought I'd say this, but... my bathroom scale! Don't hate me!! I had bariatric surgery almost six years ago and lost 110 pounds, so the number I see on my scale these days is pretty amazing to me! It also allows me to track how I am doing, so I can keep myself in line; I didn't let them remove 4/5ths of my stomach just to gain that weight back!

 

[PollyannaMom]

ETA: I agree about math/maths being a challenge to teach. There are so many ways to approach and comprehend it.

Yes! Above all, mathematics is a language, and should be taught with that in mind.