100 Days of Gratitude

My DH & I have coffee every Saturday with a couple of elderly ladies who live at a local nursing home. One of the ladies' home church is putting together a cookbook, and she wants to submit a recipe for an old German dish, but couldn't remember the exact ingredients & didn't know how to retrieve the recipe. I went home; went online, found three slightly different versions of the dish, printed them off, and brought them back for her to study & pick from. So I am grateful that I was able to help her out (I also smuggle her in nice French Vanilla coffee creamer instead of the dry powdery stuff they have there). Little tiny things that mean a lot to her.

Yesterday grateful my friend was able to get her sister to Indiana for a liver transplant, it's been touch and go that she would even survive these past few weeks. Today grateful that I got to play with two of our gym babies and I will be seeing the third this afternoon, nothing like a baby to put a smile on your face they are 6 and 5 months old.

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Grateful that DS was able to come over & help me with a computer question.

Red, hope you are feeling better!

Am a bit behind.. so to catch up:

For Day 122 (5/2), was grateful that Thursday's mail brought an invitation to DD to attend her school's scholarship banquet (her advisor gave her a clue to look for it in the mail but she has no idea which scholarship she won. Checked online and the college's foundation sponsors a lot of scholarships). So, grateful, they are recognizing in some way and there's a hope that her college education won't set her (or us) into deep debt. The sad news was that she doesn't want her dad or me to attend it (she may have plans to ask her BF's parents instead).

For Day 123 (5/3): grateful it cooled down a bit so I could pull some weeds in the back yard. Also grateful for a brief break in riding the exercise bike, I think I pulled something in my lower back and I actually miss the exercise, never thought I'd say something like that!

Day 124 (5/4): grateful Mr 2TA looked at the truck I drive (he drives my car because it gets better gas mileage) because it's been making a strange noise. Turns out it's about out of oil (I can't reach the dip stick because he had it raised and where it's placed), he got to it before perfect damage was done. Turns out he fixed the same thing in my DD's car last week (he's actually the one who's supposed to check car issues but the past couple of years I check DD's and my car's oil). 

Am also very grateful for freinds that allow me to "disappear" for a while without reprimand. Will be limiting BCO posts during the next couple of weeks, so I'll do my best to keep up when I can. 

I'm a day behind too.

Day 20...I'm grateful for an awesome worship service at church yesterday, and lunch out with friends afterwards.

Day 21...I'm grateful that MO follow up went well. I will be one year PFC on May 17.

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I subbed today & was grateful to find that lunch room was serving Tator Tot Hotdish, my all time favorite hot lunch entrée!

It is nothing special; just browned onions & hamburger, layered with tater tots, with a layer of green beans, some cream of mushroom or chicken soup, and some more tater tots on top......very much in the 'comfort food' category!

Tater Tot Hotdish

1  lb ground beef
1 (1  lb) package tater tots                            

2 (10  ounce) cans condensed cream of mushroom soup

1 (14  ounce) can green beans

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
While the oven is preheating, brown the ground beef (seasoning to taste as you cook.....I brown some chopped up onion in with it too) and drain.
Spread the beef in the bottom of a 2 to 2 1/2 quart baking dish.
Drain the liquid off the vegetables and spread them over the meat.
Using a rubber spatula, spread the cans of soup over the top of the vegetables and meat. Use the soup as is, straight from the can. Do NOT mix it with anything.
Arrange a layer of tater tots over the top of that.
Bake, uncovered, at 350 degrees for 50 minutes.

 I don't have cheese in my recipe, but I am sure that would make it even more 'comfortable' .

Cheryl, nice reminder your special angel is looking out for you.

Oh, shock of shocks. When DD came downstairs last night to say good night, she brought down the RSVP card to the scholarship and said if you and Dad want to go, here's the card. Might have been that I spent over an hour cleaning her bathroom, the room that looked like it suffered an explosion (dark hair color all over the counter top). 

Sorry about the hip Red!

Today I am SO SO thankful for cortisone shots. I got one in my knee and what a new lease on life I have today!

I am doubly thankful today. I am going to lunch with someone I haven't met in person, but we have many common friends and they all keep telling both of us..."Oh my gosh, you two are exactly alike...you need to meet". So I got her email and off to lunch we go! 

These are tater tots.