Wow Mellen you out did your self today i got my package i got books and more books and i like them all,they are taste of home backyardliving boston terrior book and i love it. how to build bird houses living roses for dummies i need that i got bunch of roses light and tasty 3 quick cooking birds in bloom thank you so much i didnt have many book im new to tast of home from my mom i just subscribed to it,and i was looking at the birds in bloom im going to sub to it too.thank you so much great to have gw friends.daylilymom.I enjoyed this exchange didnt have time to send alot to mine was sick and grandkids sick.I hope she enjoys what i did send,god bless you all.

Wow, what an enlightened group! How refreshing & inspiring! What is more important than living in the now & practicing mindfulness? Nothing. But it's so very counter-cultural. We get next to no guidance or support for walking this path. Our culture is hell bent on convincing us that something is not quite right about ourselves or our experience at any given moment. We are taught to strive for more, better, new & improved versions of our lives at all times. I hear voices here saying "No...seen it, done it been there. I'd like to try on just 'being' for size." In the event that change really is in order, maybe the most empowering changes stem from first accepting the situation on some level rather than resisting it. My conditioning has led me to always be trying to say "yes" to the "right" experiences & "no" to the "wrong" ones. It is imperitive to always practice "good judgement" right? But who really knows what's better? I'd like to experiment with letting go of even trying to know what's better! ( How many times have I beat the dead horse: I shouldn't have bought this house. I could have done much 'better!' Or a million other variations on the same theme!). What if I allowed myself to have *this* experience in *this* place at *this* time? Maybe I'd free myself up to experience a lot of the richness of "this" life. (Or I can keep getting lost in some hypothetical, imagined, "what if?" life!). May we all awaken to the joys of being present! Happy New Year!

I like that one.

I store my food in glass but have rubbermaid plastic for sending food to my Mum & sisters. Recently, all 3 of them returned all my containers. I barely have room for everything when it’s all in stock. Pre-CV, we met at a restaurant. One sister said I have your containers in my car, don’t let me forget to give them to you. When it came time for boxing up leftovers, she went out to her car to get them, and we used those instead of the styrofoam (which triggers my recycling nephew into a rant we’ve all heard). Months later, we’re back at same restaurant and have the same waitress. When boxing up leftovers time comes, we ask can you use anything besides styrofoam? She said, wait, I remember you, you brought your own containers last time. 😆 That’s us, but it was a fluke last time, we should have prepared better this time. My SIL sends food home with my husband in old cool whip containers. I’ve never seen her serve cool whip (in 30 years) so exactly how old are the containers? For Xmas we bought her a new set of Rubbermaid plastic. He said she seemed very pleased.