 Good morning. I'm Mary Ellen from the channel Mary Ellen after 60 and today I'm here just to kind of share with you what is new with us to talk about some tangible and non-tangible favorites and announce the three winners of my e-gift card from last video. Jim and I are doing fine. We have been together 24 7 since March 11th. It has been a challenge for everybody. I have no idea what anybody's going through. This has definitely been a challenging time in our lives. Yesterday we were talking and I said we just need to remember everything that we should have been grateful for before this all started and I do and I do believe it'll be over. Things will get back to normal but it'll be a new normal just like any event that's happened in our lives. We begin with a new normal. We've all been affected worldwide but today I'm here just going to talk about some favorites and some fails and I'm going to start out with the things that you cannot buy. Well some of them you kind of can but the first Sunday of this month we had we changed to daylight savings time and I used to kind of complain about that because I prefer standard time but I've got I have glided through it very well this year because so many other things have happened. Last August the town next to us started the Walmart grocery pickup and we have one grocery store in town and it's a very good grocery store but there's a lot of things that you can't buy there. So I started using that probably about once a month and I have been very very thankful that it is still available to us. I start my grocery list when I think I'm wanting needing something or wanting and I just keep adding to it. Sometimes it's not available and sometimes it's what I want is but I've been very appreciative of that. We just drive over, call the number, they put it in our trunk and don't need to sign anything. This winter has probably been the mildest winter that I can ever remember. I think only one time did it drop below 10 degrees and we live in Southern Illinois but we really do usually have some very cold spells and a lot of snow and we haven't gotten any snow this year but we have received a lot of rain in the month of March but all this rain made me think about when I was growing up we lived in a big old house and it had a huge basement and it did not matter what the weather was if it was raining or if it was snowing we could always go downstairs and play ride our bicycles or our tricycles. We had all sorts of things that were fun to do and it didn't matter what the weather was like outside and it brought back a lot of good memories. Also during this time I am so thankful that I listened to my grandmother Rose and I'm gonna put a video up there and then I always link them below. I always because I don't really understand cards that much but it was advice I took from my grandmother Rose. It's more important now than ever when I was just a little girl I saw my grandmother every day and one of the things that she truly instilled in me was never to touch your face. She said the only time she touched her face was when she washed it and when she put on makeup and it really has served me well and during this time it's been super beneficial. I once I started wearing makeup I understood what she was talking about because if you're touching your face you're wearing off your makeup but she really shared some good tips and she was born in 1885 and she had a wealth of knowledge and I'm just really glad I listened to her about a lot of things. Most of the things that I've enjoyed this month have been more lifestyle, kitchen, things like that. I think it was on March 6th I started eating my healthy way again and prior to that I would be eat really healthy for probably 11 days out of a two week period probably 11 or 12 days but then on day 13 and 14 or somewhere in there I just craved ice cream and I ate it so I really wasn't eating healthy. So some one of the things that I've been enjoying I've had over two years and it's my food scale. You just put your bowl here you turn it on you put your bowl there you hit the tear button and it zeros out it does grams and it does ounces and then you just weigh your food. Well I started this since Mayton since March 6th I started eating some frozen berries about every day. Well these are the cherry berry blend tart cherries, blueberries, strawberries and like for one cup it had I can't remember how many grams I count carbohydrates and really what I want to do is have anywhere between 50 and 100 a day and I try to eat and pretty well do whole foods real food except for like cottage cheese which you know well since these berries were all different sizes it was a lot easier for me to turn the switch to grams and then take out 70 grams which was a one half cup serving but you it's hard to measure berries in a half cup and that left me with seven grams and then I would add a little less than a half a cup of cottage cheese and mix it up and I use this bowl right here and I love this bowl and I got this as a newlywed and it's the only one I have. Well I went on a big search because I was using this all the time this is exactly a four ounce bowl and I couldn't find them anywhere so I ordered something from amazon and I think this is the only new thing I have and I like them I don't love them but I like them they're like four ounce bowls it's four ounces up to here and it does have a lid but a lot of times I just save a serving of vegetables in here but it's easy to measure how much food you're taking in so this I think I got a set of eight and a set of eight of the seals and I've been pretty pleased but if anybody knows where I can get this size Corelbow I like the way it's made I like it's just easy to mix things up and I just really like it. At Christmas one of the things I told Jim I wanted was a chopper and this is a good chopper and it's by Ninja it comes apart it has a seal it has blades well it does a great job chopping up vegetables and but sometimes you only have to pulse it a couple of times because it does a really good job well I found another way to use it and I love it I had baked a large I well for us it was like a seven or eight pound ham and I thought man I'd like to have some ham salad and I don't have a food processor and I thought what do I have to lose by putting it in here and I put in several chunks of ham and I tell you what it did beautifully so this made it to my favorites I liked it enough before I made the ham salad but I tell you after I made the ham salad it really is a favorite so I just wanted to share that with you and he bought it for me and I think it was less than $20 around that mark I don't know if any of these things are available if they are I will link them below so you can check them out I don't usually in her giveaway spent Francis from the channel happiness sparkles she did a giveaway on hand knitted caps she formed a company called Nora's Knits and all of the proceeds from her company that's her beautiful granddaughter are going to pay for help pay for her college education well I won this and I just want you to see how beautiful it is there's her little emblem you can get them in all colors and it hasn't been cold enough for me to wear this yet I got this I was going to give it to my daughter but I liked it so much that that I kept it for myself I never did mention it to her but isn't that adorable and you can tell that it is made with love you can get them the stripes going down this way but I just absolutely love this I'm going to link her channel below and if I have information if I can find the site where you can order them because I tell you what these will be wonderful wonderful Christmas gifts I bought this over a year ago and I think it's pronounced babilis it's the one-half inch straight iron and what I bought it for was travel because a lot of times I just have like a dent in my hair I don't usually use a flat iron very often but this really worked well and it came with a travel case and I liked it but now I have a need for it you know I dermal row my scalp to get thicker hair I don't really care if it grows I just want it thicker well I've gotten a ton of new hair and also I've been using it right here and I hadn't before I always have had like sparse hair here but I always liked it never bothered me I mean it's just how my hairline is well I started dermarowing that and it started growing so I have to decide if I want it to go this way or that way well it does better if I go this way so this has been so handy just to get up there and go like that and try to tame those hair I don't know I may quit growing them because I was used to them the way they because I was used to them the way they were that this has come in handy I ordered mine from amazon but I know they have them at Ulta and I don't know which is more expensive but it's just been really handy I have new favorite pajamas and I am dressed I'm dressed I don't have pajamas on today and I don't know if they're available but I'm going to put a picture of them in here or here and they've been my favorite this year normally I like a pajama I still like my other pajamas but these were so lightweight but yet warm the only thing I don't like about them is the plaids don't match down the seam of the side and I used to do a lot of sewing and I always made sure that my plaids matched perfectly so I just don't look at myself from the side when I wear them if they still have them and they go on sale I'm going to order some for Christmas presents because I ordered some last year for Christmas presents and they loved them so every day I go on qvc and I look to see if they're on sale because I don't think I should pay full price in March for winter pajamas that I paid the same amount in autumn one of my viewers and she is a friend her name is Leslie Riles and she sent me a link to something in one of my videos probably in January and I'm really it usually if somebody sends me a link it goes to spam and sometimes I don't see the spam but I saw this and I will show you what I ordered and it's a lipstick case and I love it I have my lip pencils there and my lip brush some glosses some more glosses some more glosses and some lipsticks I don't have all everything that I own put in here yet I'm going to take out probably about half of my glosses because I rotate them in the refrigerator that way they stay like longer a lot better I don't have an affiliate link I can just put the link below if any of you all are interested in this it has a handle down here I kind of wish it had a handle up here because I like to kind of keep it like this and just on the floor in my dressing room and then I just love to see the colors and I have some rearranging to do with it but it really has made me happy and I did have some fails this this month and one of them are these house shoes or slippers that I got in my fabfit thumb box I tell you I've worn twice I've out killed myself there's absolutely no support I didn't like them so I am going to see if they are washable if they're washable I'm going to donate them but even they're so big and even Jim couldn't wear them he didn't like them I thought well Jim do you want to wear these around here you tried them on he said they don't feel good at all so anyway that was a fail another fail for me was the quest tortilla style protein chips nacho cheese I order these in my walmart grocery pickup they were $3 and I should have looked at the ounces I mean it's 1.1 ounce but I really thought it was a lot bigger bag plus the chips weren't that good and they're it's very very processed but you know every once in a while you do kind of want to treat and this didn't do it for me at all and the other thing I was out of bobby pins well the good ones that I had were dark and I think some of mine are from my grandmother I swear but they're really good well I ordered these goodie ouchless bobby pins because I like the color the blonde and I got three packs of them and I tell you what they aren't worth anything you get one out you put your finger in it and it just absolutely twists and it doesn't have it it's not a good bobby pin so I placed an order from Ulta and I'll talk about that in a future video it wasn't makeup I didn't buy any makeup during the Ulta sale and the last lip product I purchased was on January 1st and I'm really proud of myself I have not purchased a lip product well anyway back to my bobby pins I kept I put them in here and I cut the name out so I could keep it in here in case I ever need anymore and they were 45 bobby pins for four dollars but let me tell you they are excellent bobby pins they are sturdy not heavy and they just slip right in your hair just how you want it and I think you know what I'm talking I don't like them when they twist over so from that fail I found something that I really like I enjoyed reading all of your comments and you telling me what your very favorite flowers were I had to look up jumping jacks and bleeding heart I failed to mention what my favorite flower is and of course my favorite color is pink and I love pale pink road spads followed by hydrangeas we had an hydrangea bush in our home growing up and I love them when they're alive and I love them dried and now I want to announce the winners of the $25 e-gift card the first name that came up was Cindy Rigsby congratulations Cindy the next winner is Vicki Hinton congratulations Vicki and the last winner was Helene G congratulations Helene I want you all to be safe and take care congratulations to my winners make sure you leave a comment below so I can let you know how to get in touch with me I sure hope and pray you all are doing as well as you possibly can we need to stay strong because this too shall pass I appreciate your time more than you'll ever know and that you that you choose to click on my video and watch it I'm very honored it is all good it truly is and I will see you in my next video thank you very much started the Walmart pickup so if you have to sit on your hands so when I did that but I have a new weight but I have a new reason for but they try to