I love my Life

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Does anyone else get an overwhelming feeling of Luckiness sometimes?
My Life is by no means perfect, I'm not wealthy or privileged at all but it's my little World and I often feel very, very grateful for everything I have.
So much time especially on here is spent complaining, being bitchy, spiteful or negative.
I just think occasionally it would be nice to see a lovely thread filled with lots of lovely things.

What made you happy today MNers?

Buying hyacinth bulbs for all my bowls

I do, especially on the weekends when DH is home, we're all fed and warm and curled up on the sofa in front of the tv or a board game with newborn and our other two DC's. I feel so lucky to have this incredible family and our home (while not perfect) is lovely, we have food in the cupboards and the bills are paid etc.

It hasn't always been this way for us and after so long it finally feels like it's all fallen into place. We still struggle at times as we're not high income but we're in far better places than we used to be as a family and that means we're incredibly lucky.

Buying food for my family made me happy today and I'm planning a nice dinner. I'm also looking forward to going for a walk before dinner while listening to rain storms on my iPod.

Someone said to me ‘you can’t have it all’ but actually I think you can - but that depends a lot on if you are happy with what you have. We are not rich, we don’t have brand new cars or big holidays. But I am really happy with my lot.
I also realise this can change very quickly which makes me even more grateful.

Good for you!

I feel similar. Wife, kids house and dog are all ace (though I would like about 10% less shrieking from the kids)

@DoddleOddle exactly that
I was just loading the dishwasher thinking about starting dinner whilst DS Naps, so that it will be ready for when DH is home this Evening.
Nothing particularly special at all but I felt so bloody lucky all of a sudden. There was a time when I never would have imagined this and now i have it ❤️

Reading MN makes me thank my lucky starts for lovely DH on a daily basis

Going on a slide in the park with my baby and toddler ❤️

I love my life pretty much 95% of the time - I'm fucking eternally grateful every bloody day and the days I'm not grateful, it's because I'm not paying attention.

Just this morning, I looked at myself naked in the mirror and thought "what a great body - not because I look like a supermodel, but because no matter what I've done to it, no matter what crap I've put in it, it's still doing brilliantly. Its coped with asthma, numerous anaphylactic shocks, temporary paralysis, it's grown and birthed two humans like a freakin' science lab, it's run marathons, it can swim for miles. How bloody lucky I am to have a body that continues to allow me to do anything I want with it...."

I feel grateful when I open my fridge and it's full of food. I feel grateful when I come home and my cleaner has been in. I feel grateful when I run at 5.30am and get to watch the sunrise. I feel grateful that I get to go to a career that I love and that challenges me. I feel lucky beyond belief when I hear my kids giggling together. I feel even more lucky when I check my watch and they're both asleep by 8pm.

I feel fucking lucky every single day, and I give thanks for the life I have. My younger brother died aged 28 from cancer and I feel like I live half my life for him, making the most of things because he didn't get a chance to.

Shutityoutart Thu 13-Sep-18 15:38:11 Someone said to me ‘you can’t have it all’ but actually I think you can - but that depends a lot on if you are happy with what you have. We are not rich, we don’t have brand new cars or big holidays. But I am really happy with my lot. I also realise this can change very quickly which makes me even more grateful.

I feel the same, am so grateful for the good things in my life. It wasn't always that way, I remember being extremely unhappy and poor, so I appreciate 'now' more.

Lovely thread. My nap made me very happy 🙃

The sunshine!
I love my life too, it’s not all easy but I’ve got what I need, and I’m surrounded by love. I’m really really grateful.

Strokethefurrywall I'm so sorry you lost your dear brother.

I haven't thought of myself as a 'freakin science lab' post kids but you're right

I am lucky to have a genuinely nice life. No real money worries. Enjoy my job. Live in a lovely home. Still very much in love with DH, and him with me. DCs are great. Have such a good group of friends too. I often get a real wave of contentment when I'm just pottering around the house and realise how very lucky I am.

Sometimes you do really get your happy ending and it's lovely.

This thread has made me feel worse.

MsForestier thank you for the flowers. Now I'm grateful for those

Seriously, gratitude practice has changed my life. I've always been a sunny and optimistic person before, but being mindful every day to count my blessings has changed me. I'm like that damn Pollyanna now.

Even when I'm having a truly shitty day, I will still make myself focus on the tiniest things that are good. Like a bar of chocolate. Or being able to watch a TV show, or taking a shower and feeling clean.

I'm currently on holiday with DP in the Carribean, he's just surprised me with a lovely anniversary card and I'm on the beach just feeling very thankful for him, our life, the fact that we have good jobs that enable us to feed ourselves and have a home. I've spoken to my mum this morning and my parents are well and happy.

Sometimes I get so worked up about things that really do not matter. Life is good - even with the bad bits thrown in.

I do sometimes think this too.
Usually when I'm on a lively walk or bike ride and the sun is shining, and for once health worries about my daughter have slipped out of my mind.
In fact last weekend I came home buzzing from a bike ride and declared to my husband 'I've win life's lottery!'
I'm a bit like that though - I swing wildly between moods!

Hmm I want FrenchMartinis life now

When DS napped earlier, I watched old episode of The Bill on YouTube and drooled and fantasised over DI Burnside. This made me very happy.

I'm sitting here with the sun shining through the window and a cat on my lap. My DP is sweeping the kitchen floor and the kids are laughing their heads off in the garden. Thank you for the reminder to be grateful OP

@Ginger1982 Haha that's fab, DI Burnside! Yes! What a beaut of a Man

A child at the school I work in giving me the loveliest smile and thanking me for helping them. It's a new school for me, just started there last week so I'm still trying to get to know the children.

It was lovely.

I'm lucky to get lunchtime walks with a wonderful friend, to have a job that is very accommodating when things are shit and to be able to go to the park and laugh with the kids. I have food in the cupboard and can pay the bills (just!) These things make me very happy.

It is very easy to think I would like a better paid job, or better behaved kids (when they're playing up) or a new coat or whatever but it is much better to count the blessings that I do have than to wish for those I don't.

I feel lucky every day. I have exactly everything I ever wanted. Every year that passes, even every day that passes, I thank ‘God’ (don’t believe in God) that we haven’t had any tragedies or misfortunes to pull the rug out from under everything.