Three Things...Gratitude Thread

[flyingdumbo127]

Extra hug dear Lee and it is a blessing to send you some happy mail. Please PM me anyone else who would enjoy a postcard

 

[PollyannaMom]

Today's Topic (Sun, 12/8) - choose your inspiration from the "holidays" above -

3 things you're grateful for from another time

(at least) 3 things you're grateful for that fit together like a crossword puzzle

or 3 brown things you're grateful for

 

[PollyannaMom]

 

[slo]

Good Sunday Morning!

I’m going to choose brown things.

#1 - I’m grateful that our sweet Sophie was in our lives for 14 1/2 years - She was brown and now that we have a puppy, I’m realizing how easy she was. She was never swiping stuff, she could go outside unsupervised, she would go with the flow - she was just….easy. I love love love our Otis, but he is not easy

#2 - Our oak bannisters and kitchen cabinets - Many people would say they are very dated, but I’m a big fan of medium oak and I love them. They give our house a warmth, that is so wonderful.

#3 - Family room chairs and coach - They are brown and made of a material that I can’t remember the name of - it looks like leather, but it’s not cold feeling like leather - it’s soft and warm feeling. They weren’t cheap and I hope they last a long long time.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

Ooh Time Travel - I would love to be able to try and travel I would love to go back in time….. I would love to be able to go back in time I meet some of my relatives said had died before I was born I think that would be really amazing to do
I would love to go back in time and change a few things in my life a few choices I made they make different ones
I would love to go back in time to go visit people that are no longer with us to see them more time but I think it would be even sadder because I know that when I got back they wouldn’t be there and it would’ve hurt even more when I saw them because I would know I’m not gonna see them again so I’ll just have to wait and see them in heaven

I am grateful that I have a lot of things and you don’t know how hard it was for me to obtain these things but I have things from a few of my relatives and my mother yes I know she’s a relative I won’t name them but I’m very grateful that I have them you have no idea what I had to go through and the things I had to do to get these items and I’m not gonna get into all that either it’s pretty ugly but I am so very grateful that I have these items none of them are worth anything when it comes to money but they are worth a lot to me and every time I see one or use one it holds a special memory to me I’m very grateful that I have these items

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Extra Sunday hug to all. As a human, there are moments I would like to go back in time and make other choices or truly appreciate better the extra family in my life. The absolute truth is it is my faith belief that right here and now is such a blessing to me from God. I trust Him in all always.

One brown thing I am grateful for is this recliner chair I'm sitting in right now and God willing later this morning will sleep in.

All of you know I enjoy a small cup of morning cocoa which of course is brown as are pancakes.

Dad enjoys and is good at crossword puzzles which brings me joy to know.

 

[PollyannaMom]

Today's Topic (Mon, 12/9) - 3 things you're grateful for that involve water

 

[slo]

Good Monday Morning!

#1 - My Morning Coffee - I’m grateful for it every morning, and since I drink it black, it goes towards my daily water intake goal

#2 - Hot Showers - I’m very grateful for hot showers this time of year, especially after taking the puppy for a walk on a cold day.

#3 - My Dishwasher - I’m so grateful that I don’t have to wash dishes, because I really hate doing that.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

BEACHES - they are always by water !!!
Cruise Ships got to have water for these to take you to the beaches !!!!

ICE cubes - for my coffee every morning and those lovely slushy drinks I enjoy !!!

My theme today seems to be DCL - I’m grateful for them as I enjoy tremendously sailing on their ships going to wonderful places Not just beaches but a lot of beaches and other nice places and meeting a lot of really awesome nice people and some of them have become lifelong friends!!!

 

[PollyannaMom]

Coffee is one of the things I was thinking of as well!


Also - indoor plumbing (I've been binge-watching Little House on the Prairie lately. )

And lakes - There are a lot of small lakes around here, and I love driving by them when the sun is sparkling on the water!

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Good Monday morning, friends,

Sparkletts and Aquafina water I drink like a

God willing one day I will be able to shower again

Water for is such a blessing too

 

[TiggerTrigger]

Sunday...going to go with things from another time in honor of time travel.

1. All of the relatives that came before me - I wouldn't be here without them and they built the foundation of our family culture.
2. Music - From the classical masters that lived many years before me to the more modern greats who gave my parents music to be handed down to future generations.
3. Nature - An NPS ranger once told us that the great parks make you realize that our time on this earth is short, but these many millennia old natural wonders we stand in awe of and try to preserve should give us respect for everything the earth has been through before us.

Water...

1. Fish- Without water, there would be no fish (at least as things currently stand in our current knowledge). Whether you like to consume them for nourishment or watch them in aquariums or while diving, they are something I think many appreciate.
2. Hot Water Heater - We replaced ours a few months ago. It's been chilly of late and it's nice to have a hot shower or bath after a cold/cool day outside.
3. Home Filter - We have a filtration system that filters all of the water coming into our home and feeding our outside irrigation. While it hasn't completely eliminated the need for store bought water bottles, it drastically reduces our need for them. Its filtration method is also less costly and wasteful than faucet or refrigerator attachments that require periodic replacement. We actually were able to move with it, so no need to buy another should we move.

 

[fla4fun]

Water . . .

Beverages - no matter what you drink it has water in it, in varying proportions

Anything that washes automatically - dishwasher, laundry, car wash, etc.

Hot showers, my relaxing and thinking time

 

[citruscurtis]

TIME TRAVEL....I know how I found out about the anniversary of this coming Sunday..my dad thought it was important to me...so he pointed to the newspaper rack

WATER
1. My citrus tree needs water oranges take a whole year to grow
2.I grow trees
3. I buy the drinking water at 30 cents a gallon down the street at a complex built like a gas station but pumps water instead of fuel....can't drink the water from the Colorado river, especially here at the border

 

[PollyannaMom]

Today's Topic (Tues, 12/10) - 3 things you're grateful for related to books or libraries

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Blessing of being able to read and enjoy doing so. I am old fashioned and prefer physical books. I do enjoy the regular Love Inspired series of Christian romances. These are small paperbacks. For larger/thicker books I prefer these days reading them on my Kindle.

Dad and I God willing sometime next year look forward to visiting a very large library branch out here that we haven't been to since the pandemic.

Children's books can be healing, fun, and plain enjoyable all at once. My thanks to our own dear PollyannaMom for rereading some favorites and discussing them with me last year. That was fun. PM me anyone who might enjoy doing this

 

[WDWEPCOT]

Love Books - I read every day I am constantly ordering books

I am forever grateful that I learned how to read no small task back when I went to school they taught some weird way to learn your alphabet and then they switched you over to the normal way well I had a hard time switching over and I’m still recovering from my nightly sessions with my mother trying to learn how to switch over they were weren’t pretty sessions to this day because of this weird thing that they were doing back in the 70s I still have a problem spelling words!! I can’t think of what it’s called I’d have to Google it thank God they stopped doing it it messed up too many kids but I find it extremely sad that in this day and age there’s so many people that do not know how to read and write I know people that have graduated high school and they cannot read and write and in the United States there’s absolutely no reason for this you are provided a free education and it’s so sad just my opinion to go through life unable to read

I am grateful for self help books - these books could be for helping me personally or they could be for helping me do things around the house or projects or they could be a recipe book I have some very old recipe books from the 30s and 40s and it’s so fun reading those recipes it’s amazing how much things have changed!! I’m very grateful for them because just like now my relatives back then wrote on the recipes in the book little Notes on things about the recipe and make them a very cherished item very grateful to have them

I’m extremely grateful for Mr. Stephen King I find his mind in extraordinary thing I enjoy reading his books tremendously and often wonder how does he come up with these things there’s only been a couple books of his that I have not enjoyed and he wrote those with another author but just about anything he’s wrote I’ve enjoyed tremendously I started reading him when I was a preteen and I’m still reading him now he is by far and wide my favorite author

The other author I’m very grateful for that I think has an also extraordinary mind JK Rowling - the Harry Potter books are just amazing what she did to get kids to read is mind blowing!!

And one last author that I enjoy reading his books George RR Martin which was made into the Game of Thrones TV series the books are a bit different than a TV series but I enjoyed the books tremendously

I’m a huge fan of history books I enjoy reading about the Kings and Queens of England going all the way back to the beginning and I enjoy reading about World War II I also enjoy reading biographies I’m currently reading about the Vanderbilt and I also have a book about the Astors I picked that one up at the airport and started reading it when I was on my cruise!!

I could talk about books all live long days!! I’m very grateful for books one of my fondest memories is my aunt who had polio taking me and my sister to the mobile library when we were a little kids it was just the coolest thing in the world to go on a bus full of books and then we got to pick out what books we wanted and get to go back and read them we had never been in the library and it was just so cool!!! we got to do that several times with my Aunt !!!

 

[TiggerTrigger]

OK @PollyannaMom...it's getting kind of spooky with how your topics seem to be coinciding with my life. Yesterday's was water...you noted indoor plumbing (yes, I also go through binging phases with Little House ). I was even tempted to put indoor plumbing as one of my responses. Early afternoon, DH started hearing dripping. He was in a client call, but when he got off, he found several areas of the ceiling dripping. He ran upstairs and found a cracked toilet tank in main bathroom. That indoor plumbing was aiding the unit to keep refilling the tank as it drained onto the floor and started leaking through the ceiling. Thankfully, he got the water turned off pretty quickly and drained the tank. Plumber was at least super fast. Handyman is coming by today. Ugh!

Hopefully, books and libraries won't cause an catastrophic issues!

The Reading Well - The wording of this didn't click with me until I was older (i.e. usage of well vs. good), but our public library had this little area called "The Reading Well." It had a circular pit with tiered step style seating. I want to say it could seat up to 4-5 levels of kids, but it was still small enough to feel intimate. It was encased in glass in the children's section of the library and was usually painted with all kinds of children's books characters and reading slogans. One of the librarians or a guest reader would sit in the bottom of the well, usually in a swivel chair/stool and read stories to us, while swiveling around to show us the picture. Sometimes the guest readers would dress up.

The record selection - While I had a number of children's albums in our home collection, my parents weren't going out to purchase everything. The public library had tons of albums. Some of my favorites in the children's section were the Sesame Street ones. Havin' Fun with Ernie and Bert, Bert's Blockbusters, Ernie's Hits, C...is for Cookie, Grover Sings the Blues, Let a Frown Be Your Umbrella, The Count Counts, Bert & Ernie Sing-Along, and Monsters were all in my rotation of library favorites.

Volunteering - DD18 worked hard on diversifying and getting experience when it came to bolstering her resume for the college application process (as well as National Honor Society requirements at our school). One of the biggest boosts she got was from one of our local libraries. The one in our town didn't have any openings, but the library in the next town over still had a couple of volunteer slots available. DD18 spent the better part of 2 years serving as a teen volunteer at this library. Of course, she wasn't getting paid, but it looked really good on her applications, the branch manager served as one of her Letter of Recommendation sources, and it's still job experience in a sense. So, we're really grateful they had this opportunity available for her.

 

[leebee]

Books, books, and more books! I love to read and in my younger days I'd have 2 or 3 books going simultaneously. I don't do that anymore- age taking its toll, I guess- but I love to read and do so daily, even if it's just a couple of pages on my nook at bedtime.

I have two close friends who are librarians in K-8 schools. I admire what they do for kids. A librarian isn't just someone who checks out books and stocks shelves. They are well-educated in literacy and usually media, too. These women have helped direct and shape their students love for reading, and by extension, their learning. Basically, they love books, love reading, and have fostered that in an entire generation of kids.

Our town library is a hub of activity. There are books, of course, but also magazines, newspapers, and journals to read, and computers for anyone to use. They hold clubs for kids of all ages and have adult reading groups, also. There are movie nights and craft afternoons, usually themed around a book series or an author. The back yard of the library goes downhill, so they built an amphitheater where they show movies and have weekly music presentations in the summer. Our library is really quite the social gathering spot!

 

[PollyannaMom]

Library things:

My elementary school librarian - She was the best at reading aloud (the kind of grownup who "did all the voices") and one of my favorite teachers overall, and I was lucky enough to still know her as an adult.

The town library where I grew up. It was one of the first places I could go on my own, and I loved the freedom!

The public library where I live now - It was the first place I brought DS before we moved here from a neighboring town, and they were just so welcoming!! We signed up for storytime and made our first friends in our new home.