A while back I had the opportunity to attend a conference workshop on blogging.  The gal, herself a blogger, shared some excellent information and tips on being a consistent, successful blogger.  One of the take aways I got was about posting a quick post once a week – “no matter what”.  She suggested writing […]

Are you an empty nester who feels lost, lonely and generally depressed about life now that your home is not blessed with the presence of your children or grandchildren or someone you have been a caregiver for for a long time?  Do you feel you don’t have a focus now and/or your days are boring, […]

That’s what I thought over 10 years ago when I came to a crossroads in my life – “I can’t lose weight.  I’m too old and this is just how it has to be”.  Little did I know!  In the 70’s and 80’s, I would try to work out at home.  But due to lack […]

Some of you may or may not have noticed my absence of Thankful Thursday posts for a few weeks.  I’ve been working on a business project that has taken up almost all of my spare time which means I have way less time for many other things (such as blogging).  I just wanted to touch […]

I skipped last week’s Thankful Thursday post becos there weren’t any highlights except for the fact that the days are getting longer – little by little.  Oh, and my paychecks have been “nice”. 1.  There were no highlights becos I was too busy working both jobs.  I worked 11 days with only 2 days off […]

Happy New Year 2017!  This is my first Thankful Thursday post of the year.  Did ya’ll party hardy?  If you did, I hope ya’ll stayed safe. 1.  Mister and I have not celebrated New Year’s Eve out in so long, plus we haven’t been out in months since our house move.  Anyway, we were invited […]

It’s Thankful Thursday again – post Christmas and the last one of 2016.  How was your Christmas?  Merry and bright?  We didn’t have a white one but I wasn’t complaining about that at all even tho we didn’t have to drive anywhere that day 🙂 1.  I got rid of most of my cold within […]

So another seven days just went whooshing by!  It’s Thankful Thursday again and my week has been a blur, which means this post will be short and sweet. 1.   I called in sick to work yesterday on my birthday.  Earlier in the week, I could feel the beginnings of cold/flu symptoms.  Mister has been fighting […]

I’m really trying to be grateful this Thankful Thursday as I stress at the wintry weather we are having.  The temps do NOT make me happy and neither do the icy forecasts. 1.  Not much has happened since my last Thankful Thursday post.  I have only made it to half way being ready for Christmas.  […]

I skipped my Thankful Thursday post last week.  This is becos new things that put me out of my comfort zone took too much of my time and kept me too busy.  But now I have experience and it won’t seem so daunting in the future.  That’s the benefit of “experience”. 1.  How are you […]

I love it when Thankxgiving rolls around and I get to post on my Blog on the biggest and bestest Thankful Thursday of the year.  It’s so fitting and today I feel blessed to be able to do it again. 1.  I received my second shipment of Christmas gifts that I ordered online and except […]

Can you believe this Thankful Thursday temperature?  Today’s high will be 74 degrees!  WOOdoubleHOO! 1.  I finished my Christmas shopping last week – 2 online orders and I already received one of the shipments.  I’m so glad to be done with that part.  Next week I might even start wrapping them  🙂  I’m at least […]

How is everyone on this brisk Thankful Thursday morning?  I had to scrape my car windows yesterday morning before heading in to work.  I’m NOT complaining – that’s better than fog.  I mean, at least it was a clear morning for driving. 1.  We turned our clocks back over the weekend and you already know […]

It’s still Indian Summer this first Thankful Thursday post in November!  I truly wish it could stay like this all year round.   60s or higher during the days and 40s or higher at nites…is that too much to ask?  I think not. 1.  I worked my part-time job today.  It only took a couple hours […]

It sure feels great to be posting Thankful Thursday from home again.  I made it back from our annual Conference tired, but happy to be back!  I hope your week has been good.   The Indian Summer days are slowly fading into real Fall days which means crisper temperatures and TONS of leaves on the ground. […]

My cousin Darin, who lives in Hawaii asked for some photos of our Fall Colors.  As you can imagine, palm trees are not deciduous.  🙂  These pictures are not the best – the camera phone doesn’t do them justice at all.  They’re so much prettier in person. So Cuz, here are a few pictures I […]

This Thankful Thursday post is being brought to you from my annual work conference.  I’m close to home this year – in the Quad Cities.  I hear next year it will be our turn to drive further than 35 miles haha 1.  Now that the weather is getting colder and the farmers are harvesting their […]

Good morning!  It’s Thankful Thursday again already.  And we still have the Indian Summer days.  I can never have too much of the temperatures being in the 70s. #itisperfect 1.  I finished my part-time job in two days this month.  Woohoo!   The second day went pretty smoothly and it’s a good thing.  My mentor was […]

Fall is upon us!  Thankful Thursday today is looking like the typical early October day of the past few years.  I believe it’s called Indian Summer days.  The weather seems perfect in the 70s, but I think next week might be another ‘cooler’ story. 1.  It’s that time of the month when I get to […]

This Thankful Thursday post is short as half my week kind of went by in a blur.  I hope yours wasn’t so blurry. 1.  My father-in-law died so half the week was spent dealing with the tasks involved with all of that.  The meeting with the funeral director the day after went well.  A couple […]

I don’t see the sun shining this Thankful Thursday.  But it’s still a great day – in the low 80’s and not hot at all.   Unfortunately, there’s been a few stressful moments over the past week. 1.  We’ve had some kind of infestation of spiders of sorts in our area.  I’m seeing a couple different […]

I am filled with gratitude this Thankful Thursday.  It was an almost perfect day – I say almost becos it was 80 degrees and a wee bit on the hot side (on a September day!).  Mid to high 70s is perfect to me 🙂  But take a look at the beautiful colors of a gorgeous […]

Whoosh!  Another Thankful Thursday week gone just like that!  Sure seems that way every first part of the month. 1.  Thank goodness my part-time job got changed one work day, or I would have had to work 7 days in a row between both jobs!   It was disappointing enough that I had to ‘labor’ on […]

Today is my first Thankful Thursday post of a new month.  I can’t believe we’ll be into the fall season in a few weeks 🙁  I know some people welcome the fall colors and the cooler temps, but I don’t.  I appreciate fall but to me it just means winter is coming.  And ya’ll know […]

How’s your Thankful Thursday going?  Mine’s flying, thankx for asking 😉  This week has been humid, cool and stormy.  Yea, well, we’re in Iowa. 1.  We went to a family birthday party which turned out to be really fun.  I had to work on the weekend and didn’t really want to go then be tired […]

I have another short Thankful Thursday post today.  This is kinda fun!  Short and sweet makes for less time consumption lol 1.  The barn cats we inherited have not let us pet them since we’ve been here but they come to the house when they are hungry.  They’ll walk with us to the barn where […]

This could possibly be one of, if not the shortest Thankful Thursday post I’ve done to date.  Today is my first day off work in 7 days. 1.  The way the timing went, I had to work 6 days in a row between my part-time and full-time jobs.  Good thing about the part-time gig is […]

There’s not many Thankful Thursday posts left for the summer….it’s just flying by!  And I think even faster when there’s nothing happening in my life except eat, sleep, work and repeat.  lol 1.  Ok, so we did go camping one nite last weekend with our baby girl, her husband and their dog Lucy.  We had […]