Category: Five Friday Happy Bringers

A weekly round-up of various things that provided me with joy and happiness.

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Five Friday Happy Bringers 2/24/23

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My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.

1. White roses.

Is anything more beautiful?

2. The excitement when grandson Gabriel’s junior high basketball team wins their region championship this week.

The one longsleeve is supposedly cool now.

3. The incredible beauty of very late winter in Savannah. (It’s still about a month until the official beginning of spring.)

4. The sensation of Touch. What a joy. I thought of this today when I pulled out a thick beach towel from our dryer. Oh my goodness.

5. This incredibly delicious chocolate croissant from a brand new and very cool bakery near us, Sweet Patricia’s. http://www.sweetpatricias.com

May your weekend ahead be delicious.

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Five Friday Happy Bringers 2/17/23

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1. Understanding why someone might decide to become a thief …

2. HR and me — renewing our vows at our church’s annual ceremony.

3. Believing that most people are at their core, good.

4. Back to the first Happy Bringer, the ability to savor chocolate.

(I didn’t steal it.)

5. The expression on grandson Matthew’s face as he was given his certificate announcing that he is now a part of the gifted program at his school.

(And Robert congratulating him.)

May this weekend bring you gifts of peace, health and joy.

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Five Friday Happy Bringers 2/10/23

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1. The squirrel on our dining room table. HR’s nickname is Squirrel (long story), so I love it when I find little squirrel figurines.

2. The mincemeat pie I made with leftover mincemeat (from Christmas). It was delicious!

The only issue I had with it was the potential murder weapon Robert used to serve it.

3. The ability to taste, TASTE! Sweet, sour, bitter, salty, etc. What an incredible blessing!

4. The camellias blooming all over Savannah this February.

And for some reason I find the blossoms that fall on the ground so pretty.

5. The joy of leftovers.

At least, once a week, Robert and I have a meal with only leftovers.

Yesterday

Make your weekend be so good (in whatever way you define good) that you will have leftovers on Monday.

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Five Friday Happy Bringers 2/3/23

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1. Walking out into a Savannah square near us to read. Sending a selfie to Robert.

And getting his response

2. Being able to walk. To put one foot in front of the other, time and time again. What a blessing!

3. HR decorating our little sidewalk tree trunk garden, with some fallen camellia blossoms.

4. Learning about joy from the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

(Our 162nd book we have read together.)

5. Beautiful food.

HR’s Chicken Parmesan

Here’s hoping your weekend is beautifully delicious.

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Five Friday Happy Bringers 1/6/23

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1. My Favorite Little Card from the holidays.

“Be Kind, Rain or Shine”

2. Memories of a Beautiful Christmas 2022.

On the sidewalk near us.

3. Shelter. A place to sleep, to lay my head at night.

4. Grandson Daniel, enjoying the “Harry Potter Experience” in Atlanta recently.

Remember Harry’s cramped sleeping quarters?

5. My Resolution #5 for 2023:

“LOOK FOR GOOD.”

May we all have a “good-looking” weekend ahead.

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Five Friday Happy Bringers 12/30/22

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1. Holly.

I think that Christmas can absolutely not be Jolly without Holly.

2. Robert’s little homemade birch Christmas card-hanging thingy.

3. The ability to wake up each morning and see. SEE! I can look on the other side of the bed and see HR sleeping soundly. (Well, more truthfully, actually HEAR HR sleeping soundly. Whew.) I can look out my window and see the ancient Live Oak tree branches swaying in the wind. I can walk out of the bedroom into the hall, kitchen, living room, and see our modest collection of art, family heirlooms and comfortable rugs …

I can see! What an incredible blessing. But I so often take SEEING for granted.

4. My World Famous Hambone Soup, made from the hambone left over from our Christmas ham.

Oh, and with my jalapeño cornbread.

5. The Truth of this quote …

“The destination of life is this eternal moment.” Alan Watts

I truthfully hope you have a joyful last weekend of 2022.

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Five Friday Happy Bringers 12/23/22

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1. Walking through our local mall the other day, HR and I came upon our grandson Daniel, fresh from a haircut nearby, aimlessly meandering around, waiting for his mom to pick him up. We confiscated him and took him out to lunch at Chick-fil-A.

Family Joy. Daniel is especially excited because he just got the part of Marius in a local production of Les Mis.

2. Our deliciously sweet tradition of getting a tin of peppermint bark from Williams Sonoma.

3. Having expectations, hopes, dreams, things we still want to accomplish during our short time here.

4. This nutcracker.

In the souvenir area at the Atlanta Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker

5. My early Friday morning view right now from the couch.

May you have an abundance of beautiful holiday views this weekend.

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Five Friday Happy Bringers 12/16/22

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1. Our new turtle ornament!

2. Savannah holiday wreathes near us.

3. Our fingers. Our toes. What a blessing.

4. The incredible beauty of the Atlanta Botanical Garden’s annual “Garden Lights, Holiday Nights.” Each year it gets better and brighter!

The Garden Goddess

A little video featuring some of the musical lights hanging from the tall garden trees.

5. The cutest holiday grandchild in the history of grandchildren.

Isabelle

May you have a holly jolly weekend ahead.