Hello, everyone.
The weekend is lovely (I am using my denial skills to forget about work). SPINNINGJ brought me a delightful butterfly puzzle yesterday - 1000 pieces with a repeating pattern - so if I ever finish the penguins, I'll have that stay-at-home activity to keep me occupied. And dear niece also sent a second two-sided one, so I am set for jigsaw puzzling for now!
Yesterday DD and SIL were over as usual. I baked brownies for SIL, since his birthday was the day before. It warmed my heart to see the delight on his face when I insisted he finish off the last of them. It also made clean-up this morning easier, with no leftovers to put away and just the dish to wash. The young people made quick work of those 😀
As things get busier - daylight, springlike temperatures - I found myself grateful for blogs this morning. I can catch up when I am not as busy, but the writer might be. Let's go backwards today:
2-13 blogs
2-12 horchata
2-11 rain, people who feed me, the bombas box footrest OKM gave me to use at work while I cover another desk during a maternity leave
2-10 bras, adding machines, fancy coffees, senses of humor, custodians
2-9 Suze Orman
2-8 Encanto. Brushes - hairbrushes and toothbrushes. My body.
2-7 The diversity in my workplace.
On the subject of gratitude for my body, I thought OneKidsMom wrote a lovely tribute in her blog the other day:
"Time to remind us all that we have ONE amazing body, issued to us at birth (or before, depending on when you start counting)... and its up to first our parents and then to ourselves, to take the best care of it we can, while it does amazing things for us. Like keeping us going, alive! It converts food to energy. It heals wounds and injuries. It resists illness and infections. It does all these things as long as it can, and it's our job to do the best we can to provide it with high quality input: clean water, fresh nutritious food, activity for body and brain. It's easy to take our body for granted or to criticize it for not looking a certain way... but my goodness, what a functioning vehicle for life!"
Thanks for putting that into words, sis.
If you haven't read or don't follow, the complete blog should be here:
https://onekidsmomspark.blogspot.com/
off to the rest of the weekend ... may you have a good one as well 💝
It DOES sound like a lovely weekend. Time spent with family is special. Your sis writes a great blog, too.
ReplyDeleteHave a Happy Sunday!
For sure our bodies do miraculous things! Learning to appreciate it more each day! Love your gratitude list.
ReplyDeleteToday my gratitude is for hearing helpers! Talked w/DD and would NOT have been able to hear her properly w/o them!
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Top of my gratitude list this past week was the return of clean, running water after a 4-day city-wide boiling restriction caused by human error at the processing plant.
ReplyDeleteGreat gratitudes... I appreciate that you put it out there, and admire your puzzling tenacity! Now I need to go write my own blog, that I've been dragging my feet over!
ReplyDeleteI like your gratitudes. I saw Encanto Friday with the grands; how fun!
ReplyDeleteMmmmm, brownies. They used to be a staple in this house and I can't remember the last time I made any....years?
Finally back to the blog...good to 'see you'.
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