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Hey Reader,

Sourdough.🍞🍞

I have never had a topic generate so much conversation.

There are some strong opinions in this group:

• I love sourdough and bake it all the time.
• I love sourdough and buy it .........
• I love sourdough and my daughter/sister/husband bakes it.
• What is starter?
• I killed my starter....
• I dropped and broke my jar of starter.
• I would never spend that amount of time baking bread.

A couple of you even offered recipes for me to try, which I gladly accepted.

The recipes you sent weren't nearly as involved as the ones I saw on Pinterest.

So for my LEARNING this week, I'm going to give these recipes a try and I'll report back.

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This is the first of two Spring Break weeks for the grands (two different school districts with different schedules).

So for the next couple of weeks, our fun stuff will be kid stuff...

Lucky for all of us, two ladies from our community have submitted ideas for fun and serving!

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Thrive through having fun

Do you ever get in a rut where you can't think of anything fun to do with your spouse or your friends?

You just keep doing the same dinner and a movie outing that you always do.

Fellow empty-nester and author, Linda Hanstra, has put together 52 date night suggestions to get the creative juices flowing.

But don't limit it to just dates with your spouse. You can use these with any of your friends or friend groups.

​Free download here.​

By the way, Linda is the author of Lent through the Little Things: Encountering Jesus in Life's Ordinary Moments.

It's the devotional book I am reading for Lent this year.

In this devotional, Linda draws spiritual principles from the truly ordinary things like: dust, mirrors, glasses and hearing aids. I'm not kidding.

I love this book!

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Thrive through Serving Others

My friend, Liz is a regular volunteer at the Erie Community Food Bank in Erie, CO.

Liz sent me this easy way to help the Food Bank raise funds to feed their neighbors in need.

For the month of March Royal Neighbors of America will donate $1o to the Erie Food Bank for every act of kindness that someone performs.*

Do your small act of kindness, fill out a short form telling what you did and Royal Neighbors will make a $10 donation, up to $4,000.

The form doesn't require you to give a bunch of your personal information. The only "required" information is your first name and what you did.

Here's a few ideas to get you started:

• Surprise someone with coffee
• Write a thank you note to your mail carrier and leave it in the mail box
• Bring your neighbor's trash cans in from the street
• Donate books to a Little Free Library​
• Invite a friend to an event and cover their entry fee

*Limit: one act of kindness per person per month. Erie Community Food Bank is the donation recipient for March 2025. You must submit your act of kindness to Royal Neighbors in March 2025 for the Erie Food Bank to receive the donation.

Have you ever been the recipient of a random act of kindness? If so, write back and tell me what it is.

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Until next time,

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Cathy

Thriving through SERVICE, LEARNING and HAVING FUN!​

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