When you find yourself appreciating something – at any time, or even multiple times, in a week – I hope you will try to capture it in a note, photograph or any form that strikes your fancy, and send it to us.
If you get it to us each Thursday by 5pm it will be included in the next day’s post. (See left side bar for the link to send your submissions.) See this week’s entries below.
If you missed getting in your submission earlier in the week, but would like to chime in now, please leave a comment below! I can’t wait to hear what you are appreciating!
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This week I’m appreciating my boys SO much. I had a more work-intensive week than usual (which takes me away from home and to a hospital in Hickory, NC) and the absence did indeed seem to make the heart grow fonder. Every night when we go to bed I ask my son what his favorite part of the day was and last night he said, “You, Mommy!”
- Stacey
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Santa Cruz in February – The plum & magnolia trees bloom so beautifully.
- Allyson Ramage
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I enjoy the great sun we have here in Luxembourg-City 
- Annick Bingen
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Me too ))
- Miranda Van Den Heuvel
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That I’m at 31 weeks of pregnancy with no major issues! And in 9 weeks, or so, I’ll meet my new baby girl!
- Laura Childs McAliley
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My long time best friend…Kathy Zook…wouldn’t know what to do with out her in my life!
- Jenni Bamer Mahute
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So appreciating support of my best contractor to lead dog me down the mountain of our client…WAY TOO MUCH SNOW and ICE still on the road. Made it back in one piece, no car damage!
- Susan Elizabeth Clark Kinney
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I’m appreciating the scent of jasmine wafting through my house. I put some little nosegays in antique milk glass spice bottles I salvaged from a condemned house. I place them on my shelves where I have family photos – my grandmother, my mother, my husband’s grandmother, my great grandmother. Sort of an offering to my “ancestors”! (My mom is still with us, blessedly, she just happens to be sitting on the shelf in a picture frame with the other ladies.)
- Michele Theberge
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Oh yes, my long awaited gift… that I’m working to pay for. Maybe that doesn’t make her a “gift.” I love her anyway! And am SO thankful. She will be my right arm for some time now. Meet her…
- Lori Koop
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I’m appreciating my studio space and the feeling of being at home… and the cuddliness of my two dear cats.
As the rain returns to Santa Cruz, I am appreciating our warm fire and the gently-opening lilies on our dining room table. The first, a comfort from the cold and the second, a reminder that spring really is around the corner!
Hi Leslie! Thanks so much for sharing your appreciation here! I know you have been working hard to get your studio “just so” and I’m SO glad that you are so pleased with it. I can’t wait to see the art that comes out of it!!! In future weeks I’d love for you to share some pictures of your art *and* your cuddly cats!!! Much love to you!
Hi Ruthie! Oh, I hope there is still enough of a chill in the Santa Cruz air to encourage a fire when we come visit at the end of March – it sounds so yummy! And the sun has finally returned to Asheville and I’m planning to take a walk now to appreciate it!!! Much love to you!