Gratitude Now and Then

Although many remain the same, I think I provided more detail with some of my 2020 answers.  Though I am grateful for the camera (#2) this year I put air conditioners and electric fans which I am grateful for when I’m hot.

Of course my favorite memory, story and song change on a weekly basis.  One memory I shared this year was about my niece which is the last story I shared in this post in 2012.  

This is what I had posted to facebook this year:

What is your favorite memory? I have so many great memories. I recently thought about this one as I had come across the word “amphitheatre” and was reminded of a time I had gone with my family to see a Desert Star performance at a Murray amphitheatre and my niece Candace (who I think may have been four or five at the time) had dressed up like people did in days of yore. Candace’s favorite video at that time was “Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” – anyway, during the performance there was a snag on “Forever Joseph” which was a parody combining “Forever Plaid” with “Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”. Candace watched the performance in disbelief as she was quite certain the cast members were doing it wrong. Makes me laugh each time I think about it.

I do like the Christmas song Cannon I don't know that it's my favorite.

My favorite abilities in 2019 were to be able to write and create.  This year was:

although I don't have the same sprint as I did as a youth, I am grateful to be able to walk. I am grateful for the technology behind glasses and hearing aids which help able me to see and hear. Though my mind doesn't seem to process things very quickly, I am grateful that I haven't completely lost it.

In 2019 I referred to my favorite Christmas traditions while this year I turned to Thanksgiving:

What is your favorite tradition? Spending Thanksgiving with a new set of people each year. Most of our Thanksgivings in Oregon have been quite small. Two years ago there were five of us. Last year we had four. This year we will have three. I usually enjoy groups that are 8 - 12. I think we are just doing pizza for Thanksgiving this year. And that's okay. I like diversity.  I also enjoy playing games after Thanksgiving dinner which we have done almost every year.

I changed my challenge – being tried in a different way.  I referred to the elections and the gratitude I felt the other day when Joe Biden introduced a new group of people appointed to various positions.  It is a sign of this nation beginning to heal.  We definitely need that.  Good-bye Baby Trump.

My favorite expression last year I said was gratitude.  This year I said smiles.  So missing expressions behind the mask.

Four more to go.  But this list brings us current to today.

Light Yellow

When Jenna was younger, we 
would sometimes watch shows on demand.  
I cannot remember the name of the program we 
watched geared toward young children on development.  

I thought it was called "Baby Genius" but 
am unable to find a series under that name.  
There are only two episodes I remember more 
detail than others.  One was a special during 
the Christmas holidays on how candy canes 
are made.   

Another I remember teaching colors.  I remember 
yellow specifically.  An egg was cracked open.  
The yolk was identified as "yellow".  And then the
egg was whisked, and milk was added to it for 
"light yellow" 

I think the yolk appears to be more orange than yellow.

I haven't thought about that show for years until 
the last two times I have been beating the eggs
I've made for breakfast.  I watch the yolk mixed 
with the white and add milk and watch as the 
mixture lightens.  

It seems like a weird memory.  But it's the a 
memory that makes me smile when I think about
the early seeds that were planted in Jenna's 
brain development.