Three Things...Gratitude Thread

[PollyannaMom]

Today's Topic (Sun, 3/31) - 3 things you're grateful for inspired by Easter

Please note - answers do not have to be religious, or exclusive to the holiday! This is an all-inclusive thread, and candy and bunnies count!!

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Jesus! God's Miracle through my faith of my Risen Savior.

Privilige it is to me of being able I pray to praise, witness, and serve God, especially today.

Grace to me by God of my life right here and now. Let me always be sent for Him.

I also thank God today eggstra for each of you. Easter joy to all.

 

[slo]

HE is Risen - Alleluia!

#1 - Renewal of our Baptismal Vows at Mass today - I love this moment of Easter Mass. The priest walks around sprinkling everyone with Holy Water - very powerful and very emotional for me.

#2 - Easter Baskets - I still love making one for DD20. She got hers last weekend since we won’t see her today. She gave up Cosmic Brownies for Lent, so I made sure I put a few boxes in there for her.

#3 - Hershey’s Candy Coated Eggs - It’s my favorite Easter candy that my DH buys for me every year. I’m almost done with my second bag.

#4 (bonus) - Music in the car - I give up music in the car every year for Lent. The only thing I will listen to is The Catholic Channel. If there’s nothing I want to listen on that, then I have silence. I look forward to getting in my car after Mass and playing some music. This sacrifice is a good sacrifice, which is why I continue to do it every year. The silence is sometimes difficult because you have nothing to escape your thoughts, but then at times the silence is pretty darn nice too.

#5 (another bonus) - Lectoring with a friend - I’m Lectoring/reading at the 9:30am Mass today. I read the first reading and a church friend reads the second reading. We rarely read together since we read at different Masses. I’m looking forward to processing in and out of Mass with him today. Last weekend he told me were the dynamic duo when we read together. This is a nice bonus to the Easter Mass today,

 

[PollyannaMom]

I'm grateful for memories of egg hunts past - at my aunt's house when I was a kid, at my parents' house when my youngest cousins were little, and here when DS was younger.

I'm grateful for the fun of making Easter baskets. My mom made me one as long as I lived at home (or any time we happened to be visiting on Easter) and I still make one for DS...and the kitties too!

I'm grateful that MIL is hosting Easter dinner. I'd much rather be told "please bring xyz" and just show up than have to do all the planning myself.

Bonus - Reeses peanut butter eggs!!!

 

[WDWEPCOT]

I used to do an Easter basket scavenger hunts because we had a thieving cat and I couldn’t leave the baskets out for DDs so I came up with the idea that the Easter Bunny left a scavenger hunt for them to find their baskets !!! Great spot I had once was the dryer !!
Easter Egg hunts in house - remember thieving cat ?? Well he loved the Easter eggs ! So the eggs were never where I put them because of the silly cat!!! I had two very tiny eggs very tiny and I will put cash in those eggs one for each DD or I should say for the cat
I love candy especially chocolate candy !! Like way too much love candy - Easter to me is the END of the candy season that starts with Halloween and it’s also the end of the glitter decoration season that starts with Halloween time to put your house back to normal deco until fall ( and 4th July ) but no major holiday decorating until Halloween !!! It takes that long to get all that dang glitter cleaned up so you can start all over again ! Currently I have one tiny piece embedded in my floors that will not come up so I believe it’s now permanent part of my flooring

Happy Easter !!!!


my dieting starts next week !! I have some marble brownies to polish off this week !! After that no more ! Thank God the Reese’s Big thick choc trees / pumpkins / eggs won’t be out until fall !!! Love those things !!!!!

 

[PollyannaMom]

Great spot I had once was the dryer !!

My Mom picked the dryer one year too!

 

[TiggerTrigger]

1. Cadbury eggs…both the filled and crunchy coated variety.

2. My paternal grandmother’s homemade Easter candies. She made smaller pieces, but everyone got a big personalized egg. We’d be served slices of it over the course of a couple of weeks.

3. The smell of hyacinths. They were the scent of Easter while growing up.

 

[leebee]

Hyacinths and easter lilies- The fragrance brings me back to childhood.

Lamb and asparagus- Usually lamb was on the easter dinner menu and if we were celebrating at her house, my grandmother always had a ham, too.

New clothes- We always had fancy new dresses, a new spring coat and hat/easter bonnet, along with gloves, new purse, new dress shoes, and ankle socks- white lace trim on the gloves and socks.

BONUS: Ham bone, so we could make pea soup!

 

[newski_mom]

1. Sunrise church service - my favorite music of the whole year!
2. Getting together with family!
3. Easter egg hunts!

 

[DawnM]

1. Fantastic Easter party yesterday with neighbors in our new neighborhood.
2. So THANKFUL for cell phones and no long distance extra charges. It helps me stay in touch with close friends who don't live close by.
3. My good friend who is local who is always up for a coffee or dinner.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Thank you, dear Slo, and your friend for your extra witness this Holy day. I love that your priest does that! Your church's practice reminds me of a late pastor often reminding us as a congregation to remember our (individual) Baptisms.

Hugs Newski_mom. I'm so glad Easter Sunrise worship touches you also so deeply. That service is always most dear to me. Quiet, reverent music, as Jesus My Risen King rises a new within me and hearts around me is such a blessing. One day God willing, I would love to attend such a service with you and others who would enjoy in this thread.

 

[PollyannaMom]

It's a new month!

Today's Topic (Mon, 4/1) - 3 things you're grateful for about April

 

[slo]

Happy April Fool’s Day

#1 - It’s my mom’s birthday month - I’m looking forward to celebrating with her.

#2 - Nature looks more alive - one thing I don’t like about winter is how everything looks dead.

#3 - Less freezing cold days - we can be outside more and not freeze at DD20’s games and start cleaning up the yard from winter.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

Historically winter is OVER - yes upon rare occasions we have had April but not usually

More sunlight - longer sunlight days !! Enjoy those nice evening before it’s so humid you can’t stand to be outside - downside the dang bugs are out and about

Trees are starting to bud and leaves are coming out - things don’t look dead anymore !! Flowers are popping up everywhere!!!

The deer can now start feasting on the weeds in my yard along with the rabbits enjoy !!!

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Good Morning and Happy April Friends

God's grace to me and my dad of this fresh new day. I serve Him well in it.

Birthdays of two family members that dad and I are close with along with several friends.

New month, God willing closer to full return to health for both dad and I.

April will always also be bittersweet because 32 years ago on April 15th my grandpa died without warning. I have shared that as an adult I have realized grandpa was my first witness to Christ in how he lived. What a grace from God to have him and grandma in my life. Reminder extra to please tell someone you love that you do now. Today. Don't wait!

 

[newski_mom]

(Mon, 4/1) - 3 things you're grateful for about April

1. DD2's birthday is this month. It's the 25th. In the Miss Congeniality movie, she was asked about the perfect date and she answered April 25th. DD now says she was born on the perfect date!

2. The spring weather! The grass is greening, trees are blooming and it's just beautiful outside!

3. Baseball is back in full swing! I love watching baseball and cheering for my team!

 

[TiggerTrigger]

I'll be honest...April isn't usually one of my favorites and this year, there's more than usual that's making me anxious about the month. April is sort of a busy calm before the storm that comes in May and early June. It's both work and school related. This year is going to be exceptionally crazy, but looking for the good...

1. DHs birthday- It's mid month and it's a crazy week. I have plans for a cake, but I'm trying to figure out when I'll be able to make it.

2. Bluebonnets- Only once have we done iconic Texas bluebonnet pics, but it is nice seeing the patches of blue flowers here and there at this time of year.

3. The calm before the storm- While the anticipation and anxiety over the storm is there, my Aprils are now much less frenzied than they used to be. I was previously in a work team that was much more impacted by tax season and Aprils were awful. Now, I am in a totally different area and while I do have a territory with an end of April deadline, I'm afforded 2 months to get it in. I got it finished last month, so April is clear for early prep of my monster problem child territory (with an absurdly short window) that turns over in June.

 

[1420Elexismc]

Spring sports start for both myself and my son
I would normally say weather getting better, but CT is supposed to get snow Thursday(boooo)
Work is not going to be as crazy this month because they decided not to have a show in April(thank goodness)

 

[leebee]

April is the last month of classes, so that's nice! Of course, it means summer classes are on the horizon and that's pure H-E-double hockey sticks, but still, it's nice to finally see the light at the end of the tunnel for the semester.

My bulbs are starting to come up!

We can always have snow in April, but getting to April is a psychological lift, the whole "we made it thru another winter" feeling.

ETA: I was up early this morning (Tuesday, not Monday when the poll was posted, around 5am) and realized that the birds are back! Lots of song filling the air today!

 

[PollyannaMom]

Birds here, too, @leebee!

Also still-increasing daylight

And in the past, school vacation week