March 5th, 2026

• “I am grateful my migraine did not return this morning.” (Heather Houston 3-5-26)
• “I am thankful I took a rest day to get a head start on my wellness.” (Heather Houston 3-5-26)
• “I am grateful my husband stretches me to try new food. I had roasted spaghetti squash for the 2nd time and it was yummy!” (Heather Houston 3-5-26)
• “I appreciate celebrating my birthday month newly each day with my husband. He is my greatest gift!” (Heather Houston 3-5-26)
• “I love heading to bed early when my body says…you are done for the day.” (Heather Houston 3-5-26)

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• “I am grateful for this blog so my children one day can learn who there mother actually was vs. who they think she was.” (Heather Houston 3-5-22)
• “I am thankful for infinity scarfs to keep me warm when the gym is ice cold in the morning.” (Heather Houston 3-5-22)
• “I am blessed to have followers to this blog.” (Heather Houston 3-5-22)
• “I am grateful for waking up today in good health.” (Heather Houston 3-5-22)
• “I am thankful for my beautiful children.” (Heather Houston 3-5-22)

March 4th, 2026

• “I appreciate my commitment to row this morning, even though I was feeling punky.” (Heather Houston 3-4-26)
• “I am thankful I listened to my body and followed my Mom’s sharing of resting when your body needs it. Thanks Mom!” ❤️ (Heather Houston 3-4-26)
• “I appreciate my supervisor being supportive of my need to take a half-day at work due to an overwhelming migraine.” (Heather Houston 3-4-26)
• “I am blessed to have a supportive husband who took care of me while I rested.” (Heather Houston 3-4-26)
• I am grateful my husband ❤️ who created a yummy meal to nourish my sick body.” (Heather Houston 3-4-26)

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• “I appreciate hot 🍎apple cider on a rainy day…hell…cold hard cider is just as good!” (Heather Houston 3-4-22)
• “I am grateful for laundry as it means I have warm clean clothes to wear.” (Heather Houston 3-4-22)
• “I am blessed to have a kitchen to clean and dishes to wash as it means I had the means to prepare a delicious meal.” (Heather Houston 3-4-22)
• “I am grateful for daily laughter.  Before meeting the love in my life, I don’t remember much joy or laughter.  Thank you Neil!”💗 (Heather Houston 3-4-22)
• “I love the seashore, it brings such meditative peace to me every time I visit.” (Heather Houston 3-4-22)

March 3rd, 2026

• “I am thankful for my organizing skills to unravel complex problems into workable tasks.” (Heather Houston 3-3-26)
• “I am blessed to be granted my professional development to visit Oklahoma.” (Heather Houston 3-3-26)
• “I am thankful my hands remember the basic fingering on my violin.” (Heather Houston 3-3-26)
• “I appreciate my violin bow cooperating and staying taunt when I rosin it.” (Heather Houston 3-3-26)
• “I am grateful for leftover Pho. Thank you my love!” ❤️(Heather Houston 3-3-26)

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• “I am grateful for forgiveness.” (Heather Houston 3-3-22)
• “I am thankful to live in a house of love.” (Heather Houston 3-3-22)
• “I appreciate caffeine!” (Heather Houston 3-3-22)
• “I am blessed for dreams I have accomplished.” (Heather Houston 3-3-22)
• “I always appreciate sunshine!”🌞 (Heather Houston 3-3-22)

March 2nd, 2026

• “I am thankful for the yummy breakfast my husband provides me post my rowing workout: Hard Boiled Egg, English Muffin and Cantaloupe.” (Heather Houston 3-2-26)
• “I am blessed to see an eagle on my morning commute.” (Heather Houston 3-2-26)
• “I am thankful to share in my birthday celebration with my husband as one of our pronouns is ‘WE’.” (Heather Houston 3-2-26)
• “I am blessed as my husband made Pho this week and a benefit by-product was a lovely Pho flavored brisket which we made into Pho French Dip Sandwiches…BRILLIANT! (Heather Houston 3-2-26)
• “I appreciate my husband being supportive when I needed to retire early for the night. I used the whole day up and was wiped out!” (Heather Houston 3-2-26)

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• “I am grateful for my legs.” (Heather Houston 3-2-22)
• “I am thankful for my insights.” (Heather Houston 3-2-22)
• “I am blessed to have hard-earned wisdom.” (Heather Houston 3-2-22)
• “I appreciate my paychecks.” (Heather Houston 3-2-22)
• “I am thankful for clean and plentiful water.” (Heather Houston 3-2-22)

March 1st, 2026

• “I am thankful to give myself grace to put off cleaning the kitchen and instead running out to McDonald’s to get breakfast for us on an Arsenal game day.” (Heather Houston 3-1-26)
• “I am grateful Arsenal played a pretty good game against Chelsea and WON!” ⚽🥅🏆(Heather Houston 3-1-26)
• “I am blessed to have a husband who cooks such yummy food. Tonight we had Korean Wings and they were the bomb!”💣(Heather Houston 3-1-26)
• “I appreciate my husband is so adventurous. I sprung on him my birthday month exploration and he was immediately game!” (Heather Houston 3-1-26)
• “I love that my dog chooses to sleep at my feet. He keeps my feet warm all night!” (Heather Houston 3-1-26)

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• “I am thankful to have had the opportunity to get s college education.” (Heather Houston 3-1-22)
• “I am grateful at second…third chances at life and mistakes I repeat.” (Heather Houston 3-1-22)
• “I am thankful it is my birthday month.  One more trip around the sun!” (Heather Houston 3-1-22)
• “I appreciate a soft warm towel after exiting the shower on a cool morning.” (Heather Houston 3-1-22)
• “I am thankful to my dog always looking for his morning pet and chat before I leave for work in the morning.” (Heather Houston 3-1-22)

February 28th, 2026

• “I appreciate grocery shopping with my husband…like food foreplay to a predictably delicious meal.” (Heather Houston 2-28-26)
• “I am grateful my husband noticed the low fuel gauge and stopped to fill up the car before heading home from our errands.” (Heather Houston 2-28-26)
• “I am thankful for having the energy to clean the kitchen and start the laundry before starting our weekend errands.” (Heather Houston 2-28-26)
• “I am blessed to be the one my husband shares his chefy gifts. Today he made Pho that filled the house with beautiful smells. The Pho was amazing!” (Heather Houston 2-28-26)
• “I appreciate our bedtime ritual to wind down our day and reflect with gratitude to bookend a perfect day.” (Heather Houston 2-28-26)

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• “I am thankful my eyesight is still reasonably good.” (Heather Houston 2-28-22)
• “I appreciate being able to spend a sick day home with my favorite person.” (Heather Houston 2-28-22)
• “I am blessed to have two children who are serving our country in the Army.” (Heather Houston 2-28-22)
• “I am thankful I was able to create and working budget.” (Heather Houston 2-28-22)
• “I appreciate my partner working tirelessly on a business plan to create abundance in our lives.” (Heather Houston 2-28-22)

February 27th, 2026

• “Grateful to spy another eagle on my commute to work.” (Heather Houston 2-21-26)
• “I appreciate a work day with few interruptions as I was super productive today!” (Heather Houston 2-21-26)
• “I am thankful that the local BBQ joint had not run out of BBQ by the time I placed my order for our dinner.” (Heather Houston 2-21-26)
• “I felt blessed to have an easy commute home so I could start the weekend with my love.” (Heather Houston 2-21-26)
• “I appreciate my husband’s willingness to watch ‘2001 Space Odyssey’ for our Friday night movie…supporting my 1968 movie watch party!” (Heather Houston 2-21-26)

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• “I am grateful that my partner only accepts my authentic beingness and refuses to listen to my story.” (Heather Houston 2-21-22)
• “I am thankful to have sick days banked to be used for tomorrow.” (Heather Houston 2-21-22)
• “I am thankful to have a partner who loves me even in my darkest moments.” (Heather Houston 2-21-22)
• “I am blessed to a safe warm place to live.” (Heather Houston 2-21-22)
• “I am thankful to live in a democracy which protects my basic freedoms.” (Heather Houston 2-21-22)

February 26th, 2026

• “I am thankful to have spied 2 nesting eagles circling over my car with a full wingspan.” (Heather Houston 2-26-26)
• “I am grateful to get in 6 walks around the block to give me self-care breaks, sunlight and fresh air.” (Heather Houston 2-26-26)
• “I appreciate little traffic on my commute home so I could reunite with my loving husband.” (Heather Houston 2-26-26)
• “I am blessed to have fish tacos for dinner…SOOO GOOD!” (Heather Houston 2-26-26)
• “I am thankful my husband cares and supports my sleep needs. My sleep hygiene is EPIC!” (Heather Houston 2-26-26)

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• “I am thankful that when I took my car in to have the tires looked at due to the low inflation indicator in my car, Les Schwab found a crew in the rear passenger tire.  It was repairable and no charge.” (Heather Houston 2-26-22)
• “I appreciate Les Schwab checking my brakes and advising me that the front calipers and pads look new and that the rear calipers were having freezing issues.  One never wants to learn about auto issues, but now I can shop around for a reliable European mechanic to begin a relationship for future needed work.” (Heather Houston 2-26-22)
• “I am thankful that when shopping for the ingredients for the Sri Lanka Chicken Curry dish we planned to make for dinner that all the needed ingredients were available.” (Heather Houston 2-26-22)
• “I am grateful to be my partner’s sous chef when we make a new dish.  I love cooking together.” (Heather Houston 2-26-22)
• “I am thankful to have designed a new cocktail to compliment our dinner that had a Sri Lanka flavor profile…Sri Lanka Summer.” (Heather Houston 2-26-22)

February 25th, 2026

• “I am grateful to wake up every morning with the opportunity to fall in love with my husband newly each new day. Gosh I love him!” (Heather Houston 2-25-26)
• “I am thankful that even on Hump Day I have a sense of humor when the day at work is dragging on!” (Heather Houston 2-25-26)
• “I appreciate how many meals we got out of the Malawi Mango Chicken dish.” (Heather Houston 2-25-26)
• “I appreciate having a speedy commute home from work,” (Heather Houston 2-25-26)
• “I am blessed that my husband is such a loving partner.” ❤️(Heather Houston 2-25-26)

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• “I am thankful that when an error was found in the scheduling application, that it was not my error.  Sometimes, I second guess myself.” (Heather Houston 2-25-22)
• “I am blessed to have gotten nearly the whole month of March appointments reentered into the calendar before I stopped work for the day.  Only 1-week to go!” (Heather Houston 2-25-22)
• “TGIF” (Heather Houston 2-25-22)
• “I am thankful the new MINI Cooper has a huge gas tank and gets great gas mileage.  Instead of filling up the tank twice a week, now just once gets me all 7-days.  YEAH!”💲🤑💰 (Heather Houston 2-25-22)
• “I appreciate not having to think about making dinner tonight as my partner and I went out to get Whibbly Burgers…YUMMY!”🍔🍟 (Heather Houston 2-25-22)

February 24th, 2026

• “I am always thankful when I get to spy an eagle on my commute.” (Heather Houston 2-24-26)
• “I am grateful my husband supports my well being by making me a yummy breakfast to eat after my rowing workout.” (Heather Houston 2-24-26)
• “I am thankful I was able to secure the gift bag items for the SW Appreciation Luncheon well before the event on March 18th.” (Heather Houston 2-24-26)
• “I am grateful my commute only took 30-minutes as I was already 30-minutes late in leaving.” (Heather Houston 2-24-26)
• “I am blessed my husband created a magical dinner of ragu…which I had never had before. OMG…it was the bomb!” 💣💥(Heather Houston 2-24-26)

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• “I appreciate Kiva always following around in the early morning hours to secure his “goodbye” pet and love from me.  What a joy to start the day with love…pure and honest.” (Heather Houston 2-24-22)
• “I appreciate NPR to listen to on my morning commute.  It get’s me caught up on world news and engages me with the happenings locally and around the world.  I am fearful for Ukraine’s current plight.” (Heather Houston 2-24-22)
• “I am thankful to live in a democratic country.” (Heather Houston 2-24-22)
• “I am grateful for my indigenous heritage.”  #IAmNotInvisible (Heather Houston 2-24-22)
• “I am blessed to have inherited my paternal grandmother’s skin and hair.  Not doing too shabby for nearly 54 years old.” (Heather Houston 2-24-22)