ErikaJS
May 29, 2025 at 09:30 AM
@K D, Ha yes the air. Whenever we were in CO and used public transportation,
people got on then whipped out the lip balm once they sat down.
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Liz B.
May 29, 2025 at 01:52 PM
@K D,
My family and I vacationed out West almost three years ago, which included
Colorado. One day, we took the railway up to the top of Pikes Peak; it was there that
I found out I get altitude sickness. So, I guess I won’t be climbing Everest any time
soon. 🙂
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Kristen
May 29, 2025 at 02:03 PM
What a bummer to realize you have to remove that from your bucket list. 😉
Kelly
May 29, 2025 at 05:03 PM
@K D, We don’t all live at 9000 feet. I do live at 5000 though.:)
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Jody S.
May 29, 2025 at 06:45 AM
This week I am thankful:
-for that dreary, old rain. I hate it, I delight in it. I know we need it.
-that all my kids are home right now. It might be the last time, so I am thankful.
-that my son passed his FAA physical. I would have been surprised if he hadn’t, but
I’m thankful he is healthy.
-for those silly kitty who are currently in my garage. That my children also delight in
them. And they seem to be getting stronger, so that’s a good thing!
-that’s I’ve nearly finished reading a book I started quite a while ago. Maybe a year
ago? And it’s not a long book! But I’ve not been reading a lot outside of reading for
the kids’ school things.
-that my husband loved last year’s Father’s Day gift– a subscription to a local
newspaper. He loves reading it every week, and it will be this year Father’s Day gift
(strong hints were given). It is so difficult to think of gifts that he will enjoy, so I am
also thankful to the original idea-thinker, my thoughtful daughter.
-for the delight my 2nd daughter has when I assign book challenges for the kids.
She really loves to read, and she gathered up her summer reading challenge stack
right away.
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Kristen
May 29, 2025 at 07:11 AM
Agreed on the rain! At least we have been getting soaking rains that are good for
catching us up from our deficit.
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kristin @ going country
May 29, 2025 at 07:13 AM
–For my MiL, who was here visiting all last week. She’s not someone I would have
chosen as a friend, but she has been a good mother-in-law. I know how lucky I am
that we have always been able to get along, even when we lived together for a
decade.
–That I don’t live with my MiL anymore. 🙂 My house is truly MY house, janky though
it may be.
–That order has been restored in MY house now that our guest is gone. My children
and their beds had to be shuffled about all around, and they were pretty good
sports about it, but it got a little contentious there by the end of the week. Plus, I
am really happy to not have a mattress on the floor anymore in the room I pass
through all the time to get to my washing machine.
–For the garden vegetables starting to come into my kitchen, most especially the
lettuce.
–For the delight my children took in their city adventure yesterday. They all went
with my husband to drop Grandma off at the airport. They went to the mall in that
city. The youngest two had never been in one. Three of the four children got needed
new cowboy hats–they actually use these to work in–one got boots, eldest got
perfume for his girlfriend and cologne for himself, and then they all got to go to a
Chinese buffett, which they thought was very exciting. The enforced abstention
from “normal” American life that my children experience living where we do makes
them very easy to please. 🙂
–For a quiet day at home by myself while they were all being country mice in the
city. I spent most of it cleaning, washing bedding, making beds, and so on, but it
made me happy to take control of my house again.
