I am so grateful but......(lighthearted)

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Can we start a thread about 'I am so grateful but.....'

Not meaning to rub anyone's nose in it and this is lighthearted.

I am so grateful but....... I have wfh for almost a year. I miss my colleagues and nipping to the shops at dinner and having a laugh and bottomless brunches with my sisters and getting the train home and having a laugh on the train.

I am so grateful we are all still here and healthy
It has been touch and go for some family members, and I'm just so grateful but.....

I am so grateful I have healthy children but ooh DD age 12, sometimes you can be a right little madam and I can't wait for you to grow up and BE NICE

I am so grateful I am not in a relationship with a wanker and have my freedom but it would be nice to have someone to chat to and cuddle in the evenings

I am so grateful I survived Covid, but i desperately miss live music & if the gigs I have tickets for in July are postponed Again I will go berserker. Covid: mutate into a virus - eating virus & scoff yourself into extinction.

So grateful that I've worked through out the pandemics.
I have a roof over my head.
So grateful that I've had the covid vaccine.

I love that I am the centre of 6mo DD's world, but I would like half an hour to myself without her wailing when I go to leave the room, and her with DH!

By I love obviously I mean I am grateful

I am so grateful to live extremely rurally in beautiful countryside, nearest house three miles.

But, I have two under two and it's rained for days and it's impossible to push a pram in two foot of mud. So I feel lonely and very isolated.

To be honest you’ve taken my one we’re probably in the minority but I dearly miss the office! Imagine actually getting out of the house on a daily basis and doing something other than walking or buying groceries!

I've been working at the office for a year. I'm grateful to have a job but would love to be working from home.

@brokengate SAME! I am so grateful for the beauty and peace and quiet and privacy of extremely rural life, and I am grateful for the lovely horses and cows and dogs and sheep and chickens and crops and the general nature I interact with every day... but bloody hell I miss the conveniences of a city sometimes. I miss delivery and food the most. I miss Chinese food and Indian food. Honestly I miss any food I haven't had to cook and wash up after myself. I miss popping round to the shops and it not taking half the day and a week's planning.

So SO grateful to have a beautiful LO after a rocky ride of TTC including MMC and being told we needed IVF (turned out we didn’t!)... but bloody hell I wish I had all the support and company I had expected on mat leave, being able to meet friends for coffee, do baby classes, go to clinics to get baby weighed etc and most of all that I could see family esp my lovely CEV Mum- instead of muddling through by myself with the odd FaceTime call to family, and going for endless sodding walks with the pram in the rain, with nowhere to stop and bf or change the baby except park benches (and nowhere for me to relieve my poor post natal bladder!)

I'm so grateful I have my job and I've been able to work from home throughout. I'm grateful we survived catching the virus and not dying ( although it did feel we were at times). I'm grateful I've got to know my fantastic neighbours in this pandemic. I'm grateful my oldest girl has succeeded in getting As in her fine art degree even though she has had no chance of accessing studios or materials. I'm grateful my youngest has been able to do her schoolwork and has the equipment and WiFi and space to make that possible.

I'm so grateful my family and I have come through Covid unscathed..... but I just want to visit my mum & sisters and for SiL to meet my daughter :(

I am so grateful to be able to have a flexible wfh Job that allows me to home school and spend time with my husband and children during lockdown, and I am so grateful we live in a pretty area with trails so we have had some fun bike ride and hiking afternoons this past year, discovering parts of our area we hadn’t seen before...

But

I wish they would all F the F off for a day and let me drink a cup of coffee in peace in the bath on my own in silence!

I am so grateful to still have my job but we're busier than ever with less support, fewer resources, fewer staff and clients have become ruder, more impatient and more entitled than ever before. We can't cope. I can't cope. I feel like I'm suddenly shit at my specialism and am now doing a slapdash job of a career I was once proud of.

Also- I am so grateful to still have my parents living. I dread the day one of them is no longer there.

BUT...

Fuck me, they're hard work.

I'm pathetically grateful whenever my cat acknowledges me. Right now i'm getting a cuddle. BUT I know it's only because he wants breakfast. I wouldn't mind so much but he makes sure to rub his devotion to my DH in my face and lets me know I'm the gooseberry every chance he gets.

I’m so grateful I’ve been on maternity leave and not had to juggle wfh and toddler DC at home but it’s not been the maternity leave I’d hoped for!

So grateful I still have a job after a slash and burn round of redundancies, but heartbroken for so many of my good close friends and colleagues who worked hard, made a positive contribution, and didn’t ‘deserve’ to lose their jobs.