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It's Thankful Day and we'll get right to it.
Last Saturday was much easier with only one house to do and i got to have a bit of extra visit time with Grandma.
Becca and i were thankful we had a wonderful walk with Mr. Cal and Ms. A and i had a talk about a little situation. Becca is on meds which make it hard for her to lose weight. Because of her special needs she also does not know when to stop eating, and will always simply keep going if there's food available, so she has to be watched and her intake restricted.
Our church Sexton has started putting the cookies out before the service instead of only after, and we go in the reception room to have our cup of peppermint tea. This means Becca sees the cookies. It makes her very upset to see them and not get one, so Ms. A and i agree she may have one each week. She seems satisfied with this, and i'm thankful it worked out.
After she asked me to skip last time because she was not feeling well, i was thankful to see Ms. JAI and get her house done on Monday. Of course, i got to see Ms. D that day also, but she almost never tells me to skip her and we were thankful to get some things done on the computer.
I was also thankful her daughter called while i was there and we had a chance to talk a little.
My follow-up visit with the eye doctor on Tuesday was about as good as it can get. My distance eye sees 20/25 for driving, my reading eye sees 20/25 for reading, so just a hair off from perfect vision. For someone who has needed glasses to drive since she was 15, it's amazing. I'm thankful it all worked out and the doc said unless i am having trouble, he'll see me next year for an annual eye exam.
Tuesdays and Fridays are now spent taking care of our little Annie and we have so much fun and i'm very thankful to be allowed so much time with her.
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| Somebody likes her seaweed snacks. |
I'm also thankful the child eats real food, even if she hasn't grown any teeth yet. She can get a large tomato down in nothing flat, enjoys pickle snacks and loves things like tikka masala, hummus and curry.
Ms. G and i got her car cleaned out on Wednesday and then were thankful to take a break and go see Ms. Fiona in the care home. She's doing rather well there and enjoys the activities.
Thursdays have become more complicated than ever but i'm thankful this past one we were able to stop at the insurance office and sign some papers between clients, as well as meet our new agent.
We're also thankful Ms. SE's house went well and so did Ms. GA's after the insurance agency stop. It makes for a long day but a good one.
I'm thankful for a funny from the evening. Sweetie had dropped his remote to his monitor/speaker/DVD hook-up (we don't have any regular TV) and now it wasn't working. He thought he needed new batteries, which we are out of this size. I checked just to be sure and yep, after he dropped it and it came open and apart, he put the batteries in the wrong way by mistake. I'm thankful he was able to watch his DVD movie that evening.
We're thankful for rain, it's been plenty but so far, not too much.
The cat shelter was quite busy Friday evening and we were thankful to send a couple of kitties to their new homes.
Please write up your own list and link up to Ten Things of Thankful, where Clark and his co-hosts always have a warm welcome waiting.
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Today is:
All or Nothing Day -- no history on this one, but it's supposed to be the day you decide to live as if it's going to be your last!
Aunt and Uncle Day -- originally proposed on this day in 2005 by Florida State Senator Tony Hill; if you have aunts and uncles you love, why not give them a call today
Dia de la Rebeldia -- Cuba (Revolution Anniversary)
Festival of Hathor -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Festival of Sleipnir -- Norse Pagan (date approximate, honored Odin's eight-legged horse, Sleipnir)
Green Corn Ceremony -- Native Americans (thanksgiving for the maize harvest; these are celebrated by many tribes in many different ways and are not generally scheduled as they depend on how the corn grows; some have with rites including a Thanksgiving Prayer, Confession Chant, and Feather Dance; the Santa Ana Pueblo holds an annual Corn Festival on this date each year that is open to the public)
Groovy Chicken Day -- don't ask, just enjoy
Independence Day -- Liberia(1847); Maldives(1965)
Kargil Vijay Diwas -- India (Kargil Victory Day)
National Coffee Milkshake Day
National Dance Day -- US (begun by Nigel Lythgoe, now a congressionally recognized day to encourage dance education and physical fitness, so go out and bust a move on a Saturday night, but don't bust you, please)
National Day of the Cowboy -- US (celebrating the heritage, and those who still work as cowboys/cowgirls today)
One Voice Day -- readings around the world of the Universal Peace Covenant, sponsored by the School of Metaphysics
Otaru Tide Festival -- Otaru Wharf, Otaru City, Japan (one of Japan's biggest sea festivals, through the 28th)
Racial Desegregation Day -- date in 1944 the US Army ordered training camp facilities desegregated, and the date in 1948 President Truman signed the order integrating the US armed forces
St. Anne's Day (traditional name given to the mother of Mary; Patron of broommakers, cabinetmakers, carpenters, childless people, equestrians, expectant mothers, grandmothers, grandparents, homemakers, horse men, horse women, housewives, lace makers, lace workers, lost articles, miners, mothers, old-clothes dealers, poor people, pregnancy, pregnant women, riders, seamstresses, stablemen, turners, women in labour; Canada; France; Micmaqs; over 20 cities around the world; against poverty and sterility)
St. Joachim's Day (traditional name given to the father of Mary; Patron of fathers, grandfathers, grandparents; Adjuntas, Puerto Rico)
Anniversaries Today
Signing of the American's With Disabilities Act, 1990
New York becomes the 11th US State, 1788
The United States Postal Service is founded, 1775
Birthdays Today
Taylor Momsen, 1993
Kate Beckinsale, 1973
Jeremy Piven, 1964
Sandra Bullock, 1964
Kevin Spacey, 1959
Angela Hewitt, 1958
Dorothy Hamill, 1956
Susan George, 1950
Roger Taylor, 1949
Helen Mirren, 1945
Mick Jagger, 1943
Dobie Gray, 1940
Stanley Kubrick, 1928
Blake Edwards, 1922
Jason Robards, Jr., 1922
Vivian Vance, 1912
Gracie Allen, 1902
Aldous Huxley, 1894
Carl Jung, 1875
George Bernard Shaw, 1856
George Catlin, 1796
Debuting/Premiering Today:
Alice In Wonderland(Animated film), 1951
The Babe Ruth Story(Film), 1948
"The Bob Howard Show"(TV), 1948
"Young Widder Brown"(Radio), 1938
Today in History
The first recorded women's cricket match took place near Guildford, England, 1745
The birth of what would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress, 1775
The Surrey Iron Railway, often considered the world's first public railway, opens in south London, 1803
In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway, 1878
Premiere of Richard Wagner's Parsifal at Bayreuth, 1882
Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement, 1887
United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation), 1908*
King Edward VIII, in one of his few official duties before he abdicated the throne, officially unveiled the Canadian National Vimy Memoria, 1936
The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power, 1945
U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council, 1947
U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military of the United States, 1948
Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution, 1953
Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster, 1963
The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government, 1977
A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 1989
Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, bringing the city to a halt for over 2 days, 2005
Over 92,000 classified documents detailing incidents related to the war in Afghanistan are released by Wikileaks in the largest leak in U.S military history, 2010
President of France, Francois Holland finalizes a deal with Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara to forgive $4.7 billion dollars in debt incurred by the Ivory Coast when it was a French Colonial Power, 2012
Great Britain announces it will ban gasoline and diesel cars by 2040, 2017
The Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics publishes findings about the observation of a black hole by a telescope in Chile that proved Albert Einstein’s prediction of gravitational redshift, 2018
Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz makes history becoming the first athlete from the Philippines to win gold at the Olympics, 2021
Russia announces it will leave the International Space Station in two years, 2022
Opening ceremony for the XXXIII Olympiad in Paris is along the River Seine, with 85 boats carrying the athletes, 2024
It's wonderful to see Annie enjoys a variety of foods and is willing to try anything. "my" twins are the same, it seems the only thing they do not like is peanut butter.
ReplyDeleteI am glad Becca is happy to be allowed just one cookie.
Funny about the batteries because I've done that myself. And then when you realize what you've done after the third try, you just have to laugh. Once again you had a busy week but thankfully your eyes are perfect now. That is wonderful news. And that sweet girl Annie.
ReplyDeleteMenjar de tot és molt important i l'Annie ho fa molt bé. 👏👏👏
ReplyDeleteI si la Becca està contenta amb una galeta, tots feliços.😉
Bon dia, Mimi!
The battery incident happens here every now and again. As you said...you just have to laugh! And Annie eating so well...amazing!!!!! Seriously.
ReplyDeleteIt is good to remember to be thankful. The River Cats, Tigris and Styx
ReplyDeleteDelightful thankfuls and a priceless picture of Annie! Thanks for reminding me I need some more AAA's!
ReplyDeleteVision good - GREAT thankful!
ReplyDeleteAnnie is such a cutie. So happy to hear your eye exam went well and you don't need to come back for a year. That's always good to hear.
ReplyDeleteSo many wonderful things to be thankful for, but we think the best are more time with Grandma, fun days with Annie, and a great eye report. Even after a year, MOm still reaches for the nightstand when she wakes up to find her glasses that, of course, aren't there:). No need anymore. At least for now.
ReplyDeleteWoos - Misty and Timber
Those are all such good thankfuls. Little Annie is so darn cute!
ReplyDeleteYou are such a busy lady ~ Annie is adorable and growing quickly ~ lovely thankfuls ~ hugs,
ReplyDeletean artist reflects ~ carol and ziggy
Wonderful thankfuls. I am so glad you get a lot of time with Annie. Her parents are wise to give her such a variety so hopefully she will want more than pizza and mac and cheese when she is a little older-mainly what my great-nieces eat. XO
ReplyDeleteI wonder: Is there a day when nothing happened in history? No one was ever born or died, no special event, no films or books won any awards or were premiered? Is there ever a day when there is absolutely nothing to report on the news or to write in archives of history?
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Fabulous news about your vision!
ReplyDeletenothing better to hear from a doctor (eye or any other section of body).."he'll see me next year for an annual eye exam"
ReplyDeletevery cool
do that a lot with the remote (I've finally learned: flat end (of battery) on the spring)
have a good week
Charlee: "That is a great list of thankfuls, as always, and excellent news about your eyes!"
ReplyDeleteJava Bean: "Ayyy, our Dada has always been licensed to drive without his glasses, but when he went for his latest renewal and tried the eye test without them, things didn't work out so well this time ..."