Three Things...Gratitude Thread

[leebee]

Christmas lights! I keep the multicolored icicle lights on my porch up all year, replacing them as they burn out. I love Christmas lights!

Stars in the night sky. When I first left home and would be homesick, I'd look at the night sky and remember that my family, friends, and I were all seeing the same thing at the same time, just from different locations. It brought me some comfort.

Rainbows. If it weren't for the physics of light, we'd not have one of nature's most beautiful shows!

 

[PollyannaMom]

Cheerful Christmas lights

The light over my stove

The built-in flashlight on my phone

 

[WDWEPCOT]

Flashlights - use them every night to potty my dog
Motion Lights for yard -
Lanterns - battery kind for when you have power outage !!

 

[slo]

Good Tuesday Morning

#1 - Christmas Lights In My House - I actually am grateful for Christmas lights everywhere, but I’m gonna focus on my decorations. I have lots of lights going on inside my house this time of year - sun lights are stationary and sun lights twinkle. I’m really loving those rice lights where you can set them for different types of patterns. I have them in four different areas and I’d like to add some more next year.. Lots of timers are used this time of year to turn everything off and on. This house looks so boring after I take everything down.

#2 - The Dome Light in the car - I’m very grateful for the dome lights this time of year when it gets dark out at 4:30 in the afternoon.

#3 - Fiber Optic Decorations - I love love love favorite stuff. I have a few Halloween decorations that are fiber optic, I have my grandma’s Christmas tree that is fiber optic, a few other Christmas decorations that are fiber optic and my Christmas wreath above the fireplace is fiber optic. I just love it! At one time you could find a lot of fiber optic stuff but not so much anymore which kinda makes me me sad, because I would like some fiber, active decorations for every holiday.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

By my faith belief, Jesus is my Light.

Dad has a bedside lamp that belonged to my grandpa which is special to us both.

The blessing each of us carry of light inside our hearts. Thank each of you for so kindly sharing that in general and with me.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

Holiday Lights - I have never met a set of holiday lights I didn't love. I really want to make the shift to the fully programmable RGB ones, but I have so many strings of regular lights...and if they work, they MUST go into the display.

Phone Flashlight - I used to keep a flashlight in my nightstand and a few around the house in case of emergency or I was up in the middle of the night and didn't want to get up to turn on the overhead light. Modern phones = flashlight everywhere!

Working Traffic Lights - You don't realize how much they keep roads safer and more civilized until the power goes out.

 

[1420Elexismc]

The light from the fire in our pellet stove
Holiday Lights
The soft light from my oil diffuser

 

[Allison Joy]

(Mon, 12/2) - 3 things you're grateful to be able to do on a computer
1. Research! I LOVE Google.
2. Listen to music
3. Play games

(Tues, 12/3) - 3 light-related things you're grateful for
1. Rainbows
2. The sun (and the Son... )
3. Candle light services on Christmas Eve

 

[PollyannaMom]

Today's Topic (Wed, 12/4) - 3 cube-shaped things you're grateful for

 

[slo]

Good Wednesday Morning!

#1 - Plastic Containers - I have several cube shaped containers that I use for food/leftovers in different sizes - I use them all the time.

#2 - Velvet Wrapped Boxes - I have these under my formal Christmas tree - they are over 20 years old. They are so pretty under the tree.

#3 - Ice Cubes - You don’t realize how much you use them until your icemaker in the refrigerator breaks. My husband uses a lot of ice cubes. He’s not a big fan of water unless it’s super super cold. I use ice a decent amount in the warm weather months, but not so much in cold weather months.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

My packing cubes !!! These things are great !!!!
My toiletry bag - I just purchased a new one that a flight attendant I follow on Instagram recommended I’m in love with it it was absolutely the best most amazing bag I have used in 40 years I wholeheartedly agree with her that it’s the best toiletry bag ever I absolutely love it
Was blown away with how much stuff I could pack into it and it still stayed in nice little square cube

I’m old school I like my ice cubes in a square I think it’s just out of habit because that’s the way I’m used to getting them but that’s how I like them a nice big chunky square When I go into work my boss has a little ice machine and he has those little circle ice cubes and those things don’t last very long but you get those nice big chunky ice cubes and those things last forever I’m very grateful for ice When my refrigerator broke a few weeks ago that was the one thing that I miss so much was I had no ice because I was stupid and had gotten rid of my ice cube trays And something Amy said you should keep these and I’m like no I don’t need these so I got rid of them and not two months later my refrigerator broke and I could not make ice I have a garage refrigerator if I would’ve had ice cube trays I could’ve made ice - Thankfully my neighbors gave me ice every day bless their hearts So every day I went over to their house with a big old bowl and got me a bowl of big chunky square ice !! So yes I’m very grateful for ice!! I have it in my coffee every morning Because I like to drink iced coffee I rarely drink hot coffee !! Yes I could’ve went and bought a bag of ice but I don’t like that kind of ice

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Happy Wednesday

This is a hard one for me!

Dad uses ice cube for which I'm grateful.

Memories of playing QBert as a kid. I think QBert jumped onto cubes.

I have a storage unit here in my bedroom that is 4 cubes with individual doors on each one. Very handy and is deep enough to hold my Nativity set and also scrapbook albums.

 

[leebee]

Happy Wednesday

This is a hard one for me!

Dad uses ice cube for which I'm grateful.

Memories of playing QBert as a kid. I think QBert jumped onto cubes.

I have a storage unit here in my bedroom that is 4 cubes with individual doors on each one. Very handy and is deep enough to hold my Nativity set and also scrapbook albums.

OH my gosh I LOVED Q-Bert!! Most people don't even remember this game, but we played it endlessly in grad school!

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Hug dear, Lee. I'm so glad you enjoyed QBert, too. I first played it on my Atari 2600! Wow was that YEARS ago. I think within the last ten years there was a QBert computer game. I will Google later

 

[PollyannaMom]

I remember QBert as well

I think he also made an appearance in the Wreck It Ralph movie(s).

Cubes:

Milk crates - my go to storage back in my dorm room days and I even still have a couple now.

Small decorated boxes that just came out when I unpacked Christmas decorations - they have ornament hooks and spare tree light bulbs in them.

Dice for games that our family plays at holidays.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

Cubicles - I'm in the actual office today and working in a cubicle. I normally work from my office at home, but our company is doing a bunch of big holiday things today. Our cubes are called "hoteling stations" as most of us gave up our assigned desk space in favor of a remote environment. It's pretty packed in here today, so I'm grateful I was able to book a cube for the day.

Sugar Cubes - DH and I took an anniversary trip one year to NOLA and made a stop at the absinthe bar. It wouldn't be my first choice of drinks but it's a fun memory of having an expert help us select a bottle and then go through the process of having it poured over a sugar cube to sweeten the beverage. It was the end of the bottle and it was a cool bottle, so they let us keep it as a souvenir. Still, I always think back to the pour and watching the cube dissolve.

Illuminated Gift Boxes - While they've seen better days, I have some outdoor decorations that I still love and put out every year. It's a set of eight translucent plastic colored boxes with heavy duty satin ribbons to make them look like gift boxes. Each one has a C9 sized light inside to illuminated the cube gift boxes.

 

[leebee]

Cubes-

Dice! One of our favorite games is Farkle- and you can't play it without dice!

Sugar cubes- This is a throwback to childhood. My grandparents used sugar cubes instead of granulated sugar. They used to let us drip tea (or bourbon...) on the cube and then suck it off. Good memories, although questionable!

Bouillon cubes. I know some folks don't like them, and I'd honestly rather use homemade broth/stock or stock from a box/can, but they are handy in a pinch, and also when traveling or camping.

 

[PollyannaMom]

Today's Topic (Thur, 12/5) - 3 blue things you're grateful for

 

[slo]

Good Thursday Morning!

#1 - Blue Christmas sweater - I gave this sweater to my mom because blue is her favorite color and it’s very pretty. Unfortunately for her, she put on some weight and it’s too tight for her, lucky for me I dropped some weight and now it fits me, so she returned it to me. It’s very pretty and I get a lot of compliments on it.

#2 - Blue Lilo & Stitch Christmas ornament - I bought this ornament at the Christmas store in downtown Disney back in 2002. It’s a really fun ornament, and every time I look at it, I think of that trip, which was a really great trip.

#3 - Otis’s blue harness - I never used a harness with my other dogs and I’m wishing now that I That I know many. That many people didn’t use harnesses. By the time Sophie was elderly I wasn’t taking her out for walks anymore because she didn’t want to. Little Otis goes in his harness in the morning and doesn’t come out until he goes to bed at night. He’s not a fan of having the leash hooked to his collar so the harness is wonderfully handy.

 

[leebee]

Good morning, everyone!

Blue things...
>The sweatshirt I am wearing right now. DD31 and I were in Disney Studios a year ago, headed for Fantasmic. I had on a thin, long sleeved gauze shirt but was cold. DD ducked out of line (I thiought she was going to the bathroom) and came back with a light blue sweatshirt with the Castel on it that says, "It feels good to be home!" She said, "It's gonna be chilly in there, you are gonna be miserable, and I don't want to listen to you" and gave it to me, with a big smile and a big hug!

The sky on a bright, sunny day. I was going to say "warm," but sometimes the brightest blue skies are on the coldest of winter days!

All 3 of my minivans have been blue. I miss my minivan. I love driving a minivan, being up higher than most vehicles so I have a clearer view of traffic, and being able to haul a lot of stuff around, when needed. As my niece, now 24, said when she was 4, "I'd die for a minivan!" but given the pricing, it's not gonna happen again.

AND STITCH!!