Three Things...Gratitude Thread

[flyingdumbo127]

Dad and I are blessed to have our Houston cousins in our life.

I drink regular water like a whale.

Dad enjoys flavored water.

 

[WLWildlife]

Beverages
Water
Bigelow Green Tea with Wild Blueberry & Acai
Lemonade - fresh squeezed from the fair- it is a once a year treat!

 

[slo]

Good Thursday Morning!

Quickie Answers as I wait for my turn at the eye doctor…..

Vitamin Water
Coffee
Plain boring water

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Eye doctor prayers dear Slo!

 

[citruscurtis]

Cousin IT
Comic relief for us siblings on a show way over our head

Eddy Munster...if Marylin was a niece...than they must have been cousins

Patty Duke... never paid attention to that show

... so grateful for a decade that had easy watching TV for children

 

[clappyclaps]

Good Afternoon or Morning everyone!

I don't have many cousins but I'll give a shout out to the 3 i do have. Don't see them often due to living the opposite end of the country, but happy when I do. Have gotten closer to my younger female cousin in recent years, which I'm especially grateful for.

So to drinks:

1. Gingerbread & Pumpkin Spice Lattes - my go to whenever I go out and have a coffee, can't resist the syrup. Have also got some at home now to make my own.

2. Flavoured Coke or Pepsi - I seem to live on the flavoured versions of Coke or Pepsi (I'm not fussy), they're so much better than the plain versions.

3. Alcohol - this makes me sound like an alcoholic, but its purely because I cant choose one type of alcohol over another as my tastes vary. I just appreciate a nice glass of wine, a gin & tonic or a cocktail, either at the weekend or when I'm on holiday. Not in excess, usually just 1 or maybe 2 max but after a long stressful week at work it can be helpful

 

[leebee]

Cousin IT
Comic relief for us siblings on a show way over our head

Eddy Munster...if Marylin was a niece...than they must have been cousins

Patty Duke... never paid attention to that show

... so grateful for a decade that had easy watching TV for children

LOVED Patty Duke Show. It was a real treat to be allowed to stay up late enough to watch it. "Identical cousins!!"

 

[bluecastle]

I was the oldest of all my cousins on my mom’s side and spent a couple of weeks every summer with them, being a Mother’s Helper for my Aunt.(6 kids!) I got a lot of practice in childcare as well as pretending to be a teacher (taught them songs, like Maria in Sound of Music).

Beverages:
Cold water
Coffee, hot and iced
Lemon Zinger tea with honey, when I am sick

 

[PollyannaMom]

Today is...

Today's Topic (Fri, 7/25) - 3 things you're grateful for inspired by this photo

(could be amusement rides, real horses, things you like to photograph, whatever it makes you think of...)

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Dad and I God willing next year will ride the carousel at Disneyland.

My Secret Unicorn, a children's book series by Linda Chapman.

Blessing from God of being able to see period especially colors.

 

[fla4fun]

The gingerbread merry go round at the Beach Club

Carousel music, which always makes me feel like a little kid again

The church carnival, with all the brightly colored rides and midway games

 

[PollyannaMom]

My Secret Unicorn, a children's book series by Linda Chapman.

I don't think I ever read those! I will have to look them up, as my cousin's little girl is in a big reading era

 

[PollyannaMom]

I love carousel horses!

Grateful for -

• my dad holding out pennies for me to grab on the merry-go-round as a kid (like the "brass ring" in the old days).
• a particular amusement worker who let me get close to an at-that-time closed carousel to take some really good photos.
• another vote for the music!

 

[WLWildlife]

1. Being a stay at home Mom with my kids before they started school. Miss those days.
2. Time with my family. Every day is a gift.
3. Joy and gratitude. They enhance each day. Even the hard ones when you really have to dig to find the blessing.

 

[citruscurtis]

In grade school during recess we played that we were horses
Must have been those 1960s TV Western

Thrown off a horse twice..to no fault of the horse

Photos of us children on horses while visiting grandfather trail rides business in Big Bear California

 

[clappyclaps]

Weirdly I dont have many memories of merry-go-rounds which is odd seen as i must have come across a few as a child!

1. Rides & amusement parks - I have very fond memories of amusement parks and rides in general from when I was a young age, and even now they bring me so much joy, Disney especially.

2. Walks in my local area - I go out walking every day in my local area and there are a lot of stables and fields, and it always cheers me up to see the horses. Especially those who come up and say hello.

3. Work Horses - where I work has a Mounted unit, and i always love going there for a meeting as it gives me a good excuse to go and say hello to the horses. A workplace with animals is always so much happier!

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Definitely look it up dear PollyanbaMom. There are 15 books in the series. I actually emailed with the author a few times about the books and asked ger to write more. She replied that she would love to but would need to be asked to do so at her publisher. I would enjoy talking about the series with you if you ever want

 

[leebee]

In the coastal town where my grandfather owned a summer home, there was a small amusement park that he'd take us to when we went to visit. He always called the merry-go-round the "Flying Horses." Every time I see a carousel, I think of Doc and the Flying Horses.

Bonine/meclizine! I get motion sick watching things that go around in circles, in the bathtub, in swimming pools, trains, planes, and automobiles, etc. Just seeing a carousel makes me thankful that I have access to meclizine to fight motion sickness, so I participate in all these fun experiences!

Smaller, local amusement parks and fairs. Such fun to be able to do something together as a family, enjoy the rides, eat too much, etc. [to say nothing of being FAR more affordable than WDW, hahaha!]

 

[slo]

TGIF Friends!!!

Super Quickie Answers since I'm at work......

Memories of riding carousels with my young girls

My mom who loves carousels

A picture of my DH with my young girls on the carousel at WDW (one of my favorite pictures)

 

[bluecastle]

Another vote for carousel music, especially Disney carousel music. (Found a playlist of it on YouTube)

Many happy memories of my DD, and then DGD, riding the carousel at WDW. My DD and I once searched all the horses for the one with the golden ribbon on its tail because we had read that it was Cinderella’s horse. We found it, and she rode it!

When I chaperoned my DD’s HS Theatre students’ trip to CA, one of our visits was to the Santa Monica Pier. Every time I see that carousel on a TV show, I tell my DH, I was there! It’s very unique because it is inside a building.