Sunday Gratitude – 1.III.2026

Why do I end up writing “Sunday Gratitude” on Tuesdays? Mostly because Mondays tend to be very hectic, so if I don’t get a post up on Sunday, it’s very hard to have time on Monday. Thank you for bearing with me!

I am very thankful that the event my middle daughter took part in worked out well. She had a good time, the drive up was uneventful, the other two who came along for the ride (but not the event) were really good and simply enjoyed the time together. Hey, we even found Waldo!

I’m grateful as well that even though I twisted my ankle on the excursion, I haven’t made myself immobile yet. I know, that probably sounds weird, but I’m somewhat double-jointed, which means that I have to be really careful about putting my feet down correctly, otherwise I run a pretty significant risk of my ankle being too flexible and twisting once weight has been put on it. It used to be that even if I’d do this, the pain would be gone in 20 minutes or less, but recently, I’ve had a couple of times where the pain has lasted for weeks, and it’s not fun. (If I’m on a bike, I don’t run into this problem!)

I’m grateful that the birthdays went well, for the most part. The large thing that I had managed to keep hidden since October remained a surprise until the appointed date, which was good, though the weather has been a bit too chilly to make use of it yet.

I’m thankful that the stomach bug my youngest got seems to have only been a 24-hour thing, and that as much as it was a pain to be cleaning up after (including laundry at 4:30am on Saturday), it could have been much, much worse.

I am thankful that what looked like a possible end to the kitchen freezer was more of an issue of an ice tray getting stuck under a drawer than anything else. (I’m still going to have to do some sort of repair – there’s a screw to a sliding drawer that’s fallen out, and it’s causing a little issue there, but that’s fairly minor.)

Anyway, I know I’ve probably missed a lot, but I wanted to write something down before it all gets forgotten. What sorts of things have you been grateful for recently?

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