July 16 Weekly Challenge: One Small Word

prgirl39mfp

Nice to see you back here @MmamabearR . Great attitude and energy! Love it

I get to choose who I let in my life. I get to choose who enters in my kingdom. I get to experience everyone in their own state, embrace them and choose how I will use that energy. I live in a place where I am free to live, walk, enjoy things as a human being as a woman. I take this for granted. My children go to school, are free to enjoy the fruit of my husband hard labor. I get to be a stay at home parent, and I get to enjoy this time in my life to the fullest.

Thank you for another wonderful challenge.

PackerFanInGB

prgirl39mfp wrote: »

Nice to see you back here @MmamabearR . Great attitude and energy! Love it

I get to choose who I let in my life. I get to choose who enters in my kingdom. I get to experience everyone in their own state, embrace them and choose how I will use that energy. I live in a place where I am free to live, walk, enjoy things as a human being as a woman. I take this for granted. My children go to school, are free to enjoy the fruit of my husband hard labor. I get to be a stay at home parent, and I get to enjoy this time in my life to the fullest.

Thank you for another wonderful challenge.

This is so awesome! How insightful!

PackerFanInGB

I get to clean our house today. How awesome that I have one to clean! There was a time I did not.

MadisonMolly2017

I get to eat at home with foods that I know will refuel my body.

themedalist

Hard to put into our "Have to - Get to" framework for this week, but since ultimately this challenge is about gratitude, here goes.

I've gotten a reminder this week what a gift and luxury it is to have clean water for both drinking and household use. My well pump failed this week and we had no water. Fortunately, we found an excellent well and pump company who fixed the problem on Friday in a matter of hours. We can once again wash clothes, take showers, run the dishwasher, and have the drinking water we need for ourselves and our pets.

Water has special significance for me. For 10 years my small town in New Hampshire fought a water bottling company from coming into our community and pumping 300,000 gallons a day of water. Repeated scientific studies demonstrated that level could not be sustained...many of our homes near the bottling plant could lose their well water and a house without water has no market value whatsoever. It took us 10 years and a lot of blood, sweat, and tears but my town eventually prevailed and the water bottling company gave up and left town. I never buy bottled water now (unless it's an emergency) because I know that that water was likely taken (stolen is really the more appropriate word) from a community whose residents need their water and can't afford to have it taken. Reusable water bottles work just fine!

Glad to have water back! Much of the rest of the world does not have access to clean drinking water. We are indeed very fortunate.

prgirl39mfp

Wonderful!