Three Things...Gratitude Thread

[PollyannaMom]

My grandma - who taught me how to reuse everything

My 7th grade math teacher - who nurtured my confidence and made math really fun

My elementary school librarian - who taught me how to how the most out of the library

 

[bluecastle]

My elementary school music teacher and my choir director: both depended on me to sing harmony without straying to the melody like most kids would do. They did a lot to help my self-esteem.

My 6th grade teacher: she believed I could be a writer. (yet, I became a teacher instead!)

My daughter, as well as all my students, taught me so much about myself.

 

[PollyannaMom]

It is...

and also...


so for Today's Topic (Wed, 5/7) choose whichever of those inspires you (or mix & match)

 

[slo]

Good Wednesday Morning!

#1 - Long Bike Rides With My Grandpa - I have the best memories of my grandpa and I taking long bike rides when I was kid. He didn’t believe in sitting around, so him and I were always doing things together.

#2 - Riding My Bike To Friends Houses - I rode my bike everywhere as a kid. I was allowed to go to any friends house in my subdivision. I wasn’t allowed to ride my bike in the dark, so when the street lights came on is when I had to come home.

#3 - Brown Paper Bags - I always make sure I have lots of these at home, because I use them all the time. Main thing I use them for is recycling - there’s a brown bag next to the kitchen garbage can so we can easily put the recycling in it and when it’s full, then the full bag goes in the recycling can outside.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

No bike as a kid and lived off a street that was super busy like a small highway so no bike riding here …. We ( my friends and me ) walked everywhere we went and where I live there’s no sidewalk you’re lucky if there’s shoulders on the roads you’re literally walking alongside highways to get where you wanna go because you know we didn’t have cars either we had to walk
My friends didn’t have bikes either so if we want to get to somebody’s house we walked we cut through subdivisions when you knew all the shortcuts so I have lots of fun memories of us planning out where we wanted to go and how we were gonna get there and meet up halfway and then cutting through somebody’s yard to get into a shortcut so we can get to a store or to a restaurant or something or the summer we all had to take drivers ed and all of us walking up to the school so we could take driver ed then all this walking home now keep in mind we we’re all walking alongside a highway to get home - can you imagine kids doing that these days? I know I never would allowed my kids to do that!!!

Brown paper bags - absolutely love them not only are they great for bringing your groceries home but they’re always nice to have a few around when you need to wrap a package to send it in the mail! You could always find a good use for a brown paper bag

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Good Morning

I will always smile to remember my beloved late grandpa was who taught me to ride my red bike

Dear Slo and dear WDWEPCOT, dad and I use brown paper lunch bags daily. He brings refridgerated food in an insulated lunch bag and extra pudding cups for me and dessert for himself in the paper bag. YEARS ago, my beloved late grandma made covers for my school books out of brown paper grocery bags.

Amazon and other packages that are delivered sure are handy to get.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

The kids' first good bikes and the greenbelts - When we moved to this house, we realized the kids would have some days where they'd need to get themselves to and from school. The greenbelts leading to their respective schools meant very little time on the actual road with the dangers of traffic and good bikes meant peace of mind that there would be fewer issues.

Office bike - I have a stationary bike in my office that's been instrumental in several of my journeys to recapture better health.

Kid bike seat - When I was young, my dad used to bike all over the place with me in one of those kiddie seats tethered to his 10-speed. It was always such a cool feeling to go riding all over.

 

[bluecastle]

Memories of my grandpa's bicycle store in Brooklyn

Loved my bicycle and the independence it gave me, riding to the library and filling up my baskets with books, or going to the pier and watching the seagulls

I appreciate well-packed items from amazon and other retailers. Every now and then, Bath and Bodywork’s disappoints me by randomly throwing all the bottles in a box, but when things are packed well, I am very grateful.

 

[PollyannaMom]

When something comes in a "really good box" that you know you'll reuse

When my cat claims a box and is just so cute about it

When my mom used to send care packages in college

 

[PollyannaMom]

Several celebrity birthdays today. For inspiration, I picked -



Today's Topic (Thu, 5/8) - 3 movies you're grateful for

 

[WDWEPCOT]

But this is a hard one to narrow it down to three I’m gonna try and pick three that I watch over and over again because I think they’re really good or really funny -if they’re on TV I always watch them and I’ve probably seen them 100 times

America sweethearts
The birdcage
Meet me in St. Louis
Gone with the wind
It’s a wonderful life
Great Outdoors

Just about any movie with Walter Matthau in it -
Grumpy old man / all of them
Out To Sea
Odd Couple
Analyze this
Analyze that
It happened one night
William Powell and Myrna Loy did a series of movies I never miss them when they’re on TV
The Thin Man movie series - 6 movies
I can’t wait to Read everybody answers

 

[slo]

Happy Thursday Friends

#1 - The Lion King - Because..Can You Feel thr Love Tonight was played at our wedding for us to dance to with our bridal party.

#2 - Tarzan - Because.. You’ll Be In My Heart used to be mine and DD26’s song

#3 - Monster’s Inc - Because..If I Didn’t Have You is mine and DD21’s song

 

[flyingdumbo127]

This is a hard question!

Two atypical Hallmark movies that were faith based and very touching were The Gift of Peace and The Blessing Bracelet.

A couple of not as known Christmas movies that I thought had a wonderful message are, The Perfect Gift and Miracle on Hwy 34.

I hope each of you will enjoy a movie this weekend