Grateful for Oatmeal

These days my hubby is prone to fix

oatmeal with raisins, brown sugar and butter

every morning.

Our house smells

delicious.

And....it makes me sing in my head one of my favorite songs

'it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood' 
even though there are grey skies and chilly weather outside.

Dear Mom and Dad,

thank you for your cheerful example and teaching me

to be grateful every day for all good things in life.

I love you and miss you.
(Muah!!!)

"The virtue of gratitude is global and eternally relevant."

"To express gratitude implies that there is a someone to be grateful to. For Lincoln and many others before and since, that someone is God. After enumerating the people’s many blessings, Lincoln writes that "no human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, 

who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy." "

Italics and bold added by me . 

; )

(the previous are excerpts from this awesome 

Thanksgiving commentary global-gift-gratitude)

I thank thee Father in Heaven

for tender mercies.

grandbaby kisses

purring kitties

flowers

blue sky

delicious scents

hugs

warm home

my morning cereal

and so

much more...

all the blessings I see

and don't see.

Thank you.

Love to you all,

from my bottomless heart.

; )

xoxoxo

~d

(is it just me, or does this quote seem a little funny?)

xo