"No matter how good or not so good our lives are going ... we always have things for which we are grateful. It puts life into perspective. It feels good to remember our gratitudes."

Come and join us!

Today I am grateful for

+ my garden which is starting to produce veggies as well as flowers

+ William who has given me lots of flowers to plant in the Village

+ my sister whom I don't see often enough

+ finally finding fish I enjoy

+ puppies - although I am stiffening my resistance muscle.

Thanks, Ruthxx, for getting us started!

- a GREAT food day... until about 10:00 pm, when I ate extra. I am grateful for the willingness to make it a healthy day, mostly.

- DH is almost done with the stepping stones - they look great and are nice to look at too.

- rained all night.. we needed it (the flowers are 'smiling' this morning - the farmers too.

- friends, family, YOU ALL, fb, music, cell phone, internet

- interesting containers with little sedum growing bring me such pleasure.

I am grateful for the hard things I have gone through that taught me just how strong and determined I am. I am grateful for the people in my life. I am really grateful this bad haircut is not shorter and more chopped up than it could be:-)

It's cold and raining hard this morning and I am most grateful for my cozy warm house and hot coffee.

- mostly, a healthy food day - grateful for that

- DH did lots of weeding and gardens look so 'tidy'

- talked to my sister

- friends, family, YOU ALL, fb, cell, internet, music

- stretches and strengthening exercises are helpful

- learning new things everyday

Grateful for:

- finally making peace with my body

- my mom, family, friends, 3FC

- motivation to keep working towards my goals

- a healthy food day Saturday - so grateful for that

- DH replanted the garden bed that we totally took out to work on the overgrown weeds. It looks nice!

- neighbors and little children came over for a campfire & smores. We told campfire stories - I told some not scary ghost stories. Then they made up their own. Fun stuff!

- I planned to eat one s'more and that is what I ate. Grateful for that and the willingness to send the ingredients home with one family

- loving the new garden paths

- family, friends, YOU ALL, fb, internet, cell, music

- used cherry wood in the campfire... I smell like a sweet smoked ham. LOL Love the smell of a campfire.

+ once again glad of a rainy day when I can just chill a bit

+ breakfast at the Diner with Jane and Hal - we seldom get one on one time

+ four loads of laundry washed dried, folded and put away

+ survived the trauma of buying a bathing suit yesterday

+ got the financial report done for my quilters' meeting in record time which will ease Monday's morning stress

+ bought a dessert for tonight's Girls' Dinner without having to make one this afternoon

+ a rainy afternoon is great for a quick nap

- willingness to follow my plan (at least until 2am) I am grateful for any time that I have food sanity

- yesterday was wonderful weather

- Alex said, "Mom, let's turn the TV off and just watch Maya smile" What a sweet big brother. (Considering he doesn't get to watch a lot of television!)

- friends, family, YOU ALL, fb, internet, cell phone, music

- hose has different flows... so helpful

- Mom and I started our plan to walk together every evening

- get to enjoy the full moon, it's so beautiful

- had a healthy eating day yesterday

- can enjoy the birds singing in the orange tree outside my window

- family, friends, all the chicks

+ lovely nap yesterday afternoon

+ dentist moved my appointment to today, clearing my Thursday for me

+ caught up on May postings in the Mill accounts

+ the rain has meant no need to water Village plantings

+ today is supposed to be sunny so I may get the last few planters done

- finally, a really all around healthy day- I am grateful

- Mike said Alex 'read' him a book last night. He said that even though most of it was from memory.... it was so joyful.

- glad Mimi gave permission to cut down the one tree that totally shaded our veggie garden. It was all broken and misshapen from a snow storm a few years ago and kept saying she wanted to take it down. She was grateful, actually.

- friends, family, YOU ALL, fb, internet, cell, music

- my online friends from around the world

- tomatos and peppers planted

- had a good night's sleep

- have plenty of energy today from eating and exercising healthy yesterday

- orange tree has lots of oranges and singing birds in it

- we'll have lemons soon

- got to spend time with my Mom

- family, friends, all the chicks

-have a great husband
-have a great job
-one my best friends was hired on to my team last week after 2 years of unemployment and underemployment
-have a great family
-little brother is coming to visit from across the country on Friday!