~ I’m once again joining Taryn over at Wooly Moss Roots in her Gratitude Sunday tradition. ~
Gratitude Sunday is a time to slow down and remember those thankful moments that graced our week. One reason I love keeping a daily gratitude journal is because it helps keep things in perspective for me. Each Sunday, I open my journal and share some of those moments with you here. If you’d like to join in, just leave a comment!
Gratitude is powerful energy. I love hearing others’ gratitudes!
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– Such sweet comments from the wonderful people who visit my blog! THANK YOU!
– Lunch outside on a restaurant patio this week, with my Honey and a couple of his co-worker friends. That was so nice.
– Not needing to ‘live’ next to the space heater, hah! This warm weather has been wonderful.
– Discovering Mt. Vikos brand Haloumi cheese; a new obsession! (Their feta is so good too.) And equally thankful that my stomach… which is slowly healing… can handle it better than it would have a couple months ago! Yay!
– Tabbouleh, my continuing obsession. (I still need to share that recipe… [Edit: here it is: Classic Tabbouleh])
– The smell of hyacinth. One of my Top 3 Favorite Smells Ever. And even better, having a couple of stalks of it here in our kitchen; it’s so heavenly! And so ephemeral…
– Getting a difficult, nebulous (moneymaking) project completed!
– My sweet Hubby. My sweet Parents. My sweet Cat. My sweet Neighbor, Margaret. I am surrounded by such loving and wonderful people, I am just so lucky.
– How much F. makes me laugh! I love his sense of humor.
– Dreams, for making it clear when I need to back off on what I’ve got going on in my life. When I’m overwhelmed, I have scary dreams where I’m trying to escape a tornado or a tsunami, or am drowning. These three themes recur whenever I need to hear the message to “slow down.”
– Returning unread library books… one concrete step toward simplifying and de-overwhelming myself.
– Making time to just sit and journal… to think through and reflect on what’s transpired with this massive illness. Wow… lots to think about, and work out in my mind… it feels good to journal it… to process it… to integrate its many, many lessons…
– How incredibly good and normal I’ve been feeling… oh my gosh. What a blessing… I can’t even express it.
– Being barefoot in my garden.
– Being outside this weekend. I absolutely needed it.
– The quietude over at my parents’ house. At our house, there is constant, unrelenting traffic noise since we live next to a busy street. At times it drives me berserk. So to give my ears a rest feels soooooooo good.
– Getting so much awesome stuff done in my garden this weekend, with gorgeous weather to boot! I feel really really good about what I accomplished.
– Seeing so many newborn worms in my garden soil! They’re really teensy and cute.
– Doing handstands around my parents’ yard, just like old times. I was amazed that after 2 days of hot weather and hard labor in the garden, I was still energetic enough to be spending energy ‘carelessly’ on handstands! Truly amazing… (I hope Murphy doesn’t hear me saying how good I feel…)
– The smell of apple blossoms in the air as I ride my bike. What a special time of year! (They’re blooming 3 weeks early this year!)
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What have you felt especially grateful for this past week?
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How great to hear that you are on the road to recovery…and all the energy you have.
I love the smell of hyacinths. The other week my eldest daughter and I were at a garden centre, we went into a glass house that was full of hyacinths…we stood in silence just staring at each other, we could not believe how wonderful it smelt. We stood there a long time!
Love your gratitudes and love your beautiful photographs..as always.xxx
Love hearing from you as always Trish; I would have loved to experience that greenhouse with you!!!! WOW.
Love to you!
Lindsey
Lindsey,
Just got home from a long town trip to see an e-mail with a message from you. So nice to come home to. 🙂
Gorgeous pictures! Seeing them filled my heart.
The smell of hyacinth… mmm!
Good job getting the moneymaking job completed! What a relief!
Good job also on paying attention to the slow down messages. And I hear ya- sometimes too many books piling up can feel overwhelming.
So glad you’ve been feeling well!
You’re such a sweet soul, grateful to have you for a friend.
Lots of love!!
Taryn