What I'm Reading This Week #30
Happy Final Friday of July everyone! I will not be sad to see this month in the rear view. The Mr finished the HOA minion's job by checking on the basement wall crevasse of missing mortar pretty much every waking hour after he "filled" the hole. I gave him a bamboo skewer to see if it hit the long bottom we saw with the camera. Nope. source When he poked it, it drained away. Every hour, he'd do the same and it kept emptying. I had him check to make sure it wasn't pouring out the front of the house and thankfully it wasn't. But if you figure that water has been etching away at the stairstep crack leading from the top of the hole then that goes down the entire length of the wall , so it had a long way to travel. In the end not only did the Mr use one quart of the filler but had to buy another one and used 1/3 of the bottle before it finally started leveling off!! If we'd left it to the HOA dude, an eighth of the bottle woul...
I like this. I start every day with something I'm grateful for; I think about it before I even get out of bed. It helps me realize that there is so much more that's good than there is that's bad. I keep a list throughout the day and I just keep adding to it. Once you get started, it's so easy to find more things!!
ReplyDeleteThis is my list from Saturday, it's the little things that add up!
Cool, quiet mornings
The ability to stay on a schedule and still be calm
The strength to get everything done
Health
My body
Morning sunrises
Difficult relationships that keep me challenged ;-)
Checking off obligations that are completed
A house that cools off quickly after being closed up for a week
Such simple things but they just make my world so much nicer! And at the end of the day, I look at my list and realize that I had a pretty nice day!!
Hi...I'm a lurker who is grateful for:
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to try harder,
move just a bit more, and
eat just a bit healthier.
I don't have to join anything, Pay for anything, or reveal anything that I don't feel like revealing.
So Keep it up and I'll keep on Lurking
AND
THANKS!
Thanks for reminding me to be thankful. I seem to forget so easily that I have everything I need and most of what I want.
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I am grateful for all the birds on my front lawn, having fun in front of my office window. I had an exotic grey bird with a bright yellow splotch on it's feathers, hanging out under the crabapple. I stared for so long and was about to get the binoculars when the morning dove walked out from behind a wayward marigold bloom!! HA!
ReplyDeleteI am grateful for the two inches of rain on Saturday that have all these birds out eating bugs this morning.
I am grateful for you, always encouraging, always giving me things to ponder. Thanks for reframing my day!!
Good for you! And I am one of those people so envious of your relationship, but you know that!
ReplyDeleteI don't know....should have saved this for when I had more time...maybe I'm grateful for a few moments to read a favorite blog before I have to go make homemade play-dough for my girls to take to a party. Which also means two out of three will be gone for two hours...grateful for that.
ReplyDeleteI'm grateful for:
ReplyDelete1. my husband and daughter... life would be nothing without them
2. my life lived in faith
3. sunshine... makes all the difference to any day
4. cyberspace... where I fnd people like YOU!
5. hot coffee with cream
6. peaches
7. my vacuum (don't ask)
8. my body's ability to HEAL
9. the scented summer breeze blowing in my window as I type
10. my sens of humour
I am grateful for the internet bringing together so many people who would never meet up otherwise, like here. For the inspiration you are to myself and many others. For your not afraid to be yourself attitude and for your awesome Mr. who stand besides you.
ReplyDeleteEven more I am grateful for a beautiful husband who sustains my heart, for my Jesus who sustains my soul, for a job that keeps a roof over my head and my gorgeous baby girl who is leaving for college in just 30 days. I am blessed beyond measure and forget it so often with the smallest of missteps. That's when I find myself in my hubby's arms remembering what I am grateful for all over again:)
Aw, I love what you wrote about your husband. That is so sweet! I'm grateful for my husband and our wonky-eyed cats. :) And for my blog! And for fresh corn!
ReplyDeleteYears ago, I read _Simple Abundance_ by Sarah Ban Breathnach, and it was truly a life-changing book. I knew I had a good life, but I didn't realize how very much I had to be thankful for until I began keeping the journal.
ReplyDeleteRight now I'm grateful for the rain we're getting. Over the thunder I can almost hear the ground sighing in relief.
ReplyDeleteOther than that, I have so many things in my life to be grateful for. I just wish it was easier to focus on those than on the bad stuff.
Let's see, off the top of my head - my son, my husband, our health, my parents, my job, my house, modern medicine, indoor plumbing, and hot running water.
Have you ever heard of The Book of Awesome? Google it, if not. It's fantastic, little, everyday things that we recognize of awesome (for instance, one of my favorites, "the other side of the pillow"). I am seriously considering putting a notebook in my kitchen/dining/office area that is the Ellingham Book of Awesome and asking everyone who comes in (and there's a LOT of foot traffic in our hose) to put one entry every day.
ReplyDeleteFor me, for today, I'm thankful for a new client who works in Orleans Parish criminal court, so she has loads of work for me.
I'm thankful for my youngest, just turned 15, who is such a joy, so bright and sweet and confident.
I'm thankful for my oldest brother and his wife having begun to attend our church. It's is SO good to see them more often and to share all the fun stuff our church plans.
I'm thankful for my oldest (23) having a wonderful ten day visit to Maine, such a vastly different place than southeast Louisiana, for the beautiful photos she sends to my phone, for her boyfriend and his family, who are such nice folks.
I'm thankful for the brand new ship my husband is on, a 193 foot supply vessel, fresh out of the shipyard, and for the crew aboard her. (He was MISERABLE on the last ship with a less than professional crew.)
I have to stop at five, I guess? I could go on ALL day!
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ReplyDeleteThank you so much baby. I am so thankful for you and our life together. We have something so special and I'm glad that others recognize that too.
ReplyDeleteI am also thankful just being back home with you after a week away.