What are you thankful for?

[wetweekend]

Thursday is Thanksgiving. Like many others, it's been a hard year for us but it made me consider what I am grateful for.

Here's my list, so far:

• 1 happy, healthy DS who helped me get through a horrible time. We made it through our first year together, yeah!

• An amazing group of friends, without whom I don't think I'd have survived

• The internet for enabling me to stay in contact with family & friends far away

• Mumsnet

Anyone else?

As an expat in the USA here's my list

• Two wonderful, beautiful smart little boys who are my life and without them this last year would have been horrendous
• My wonderful supportive parents and friends both here and back hom
• My incredible next door neighbour who are more like family than anything
• Strength of personality to keep my going through a year of hell
• Health

• a wonderful husband - even if he drives me nuts at times

• two healthy and happy girls

• safe place to live and bring up my children

• family and friends

• things turned out great when we took the plunge to move to Aus

• all we have adn that we are able to share with others.

• dh got to see and spend time with his father before he passed away.

I'm thankful for:

• my wonderful, healthy, happy DS

• a supportive family & friends who have gone out of their way to help me when I really needed it

*That, against all the odds, my Dad made it through the year... [very relieved emoticon]

• ... and that, as a surprise, I took DS 4000 miles to meet him. I dumped Ds in his carseat on the doorstep, rang the bell & hid. I will never forget the look on my dad's face when he realised that the bundle on the doorstep was his first & only grandchild .

My girls.

Most of the time

• My Husband and my 3 Beautiful children

• living in a nice place...a gamble which happily has paid off!

• My wonderful dad xx

• Some pretty brilliant friends too

On a smaller scale......

• My dishwasher

• My car (without it I'd be truely stuck)

• Internet shopping

• I have healthy babies - ok they are a bit snotty, but they are healthy

• I have 3 grandparents still

• I have a very close relationship with my mum

• I have some great friends - especially online

• I have heating and hot water

• I have a roof over my head and enough money to pay the bills and buy some food.

• I have debts, but not a huge as a lot of people

• I have a DH who looks after me when I am low

• My beautiful kids
• The sex-god that is my dh
• My daft mum and sis
• My mates (and there's not many of them, but they're good mates)
• The import of cheap Australian wine, and Tescos for ensuring there's always one under a fiver

my son being healthy and lively.

DH

my family & Friends

hot water, electric gas & food.

Everything I have My lovely dp my ds and just the small things like dp is making me bacon for breakfast as i am doing atkins and a bit bored with it!Also love my house and garden and my big fluffy cat

For this time of year
For DH and DD
For family
For friends
for still being in employment even though I totally abuse their internet policy
For health wealth and happiness - all of which I have been blessed to have all my life

my ds smiling at me at 3am.

Good idea this thread, am feeling poorly and sorry for myself today!

• My two beautiful, funny, happy and healthy DS's
• My wonderful and sexy DH
• Great mates (some of whom I don't see so often)
• Lovely family...bit "dysfunctional" but hey ho!
• That we live in a nice location with peace and quiet and lots of rolling hills (even if it rains a heck of a lot!)
• Not having to go back to work!
• Dishwasher/car/tumble drier

• happy and healthy dd

• a wonderful dh

• 2 fantastic dss

• a lifestyle which allows a bit of financial freedom (not lots - just to pay bills, keep warm, buy Xmas pressies etc)

• amazing friends

• both grandmothers being alive and well (even though they are in NZ - but I will see them soon)

• Great Mum and Dad who would do ANYTHING for me

• health

• lots and lots more I'm sure (but finding it a bit hard to see through these tears! am a bit emotional today to say the least!)

My list is so long. I truly feel that I have lived a blessed life, or a least a bloody lucky one so far.

I feel grateful that I have never known: hunger,thirst,lonliness, war, death, violence, disease, mental illness, poverty or fear.

What more can I ask of life?

I am thankful that I have two beautiful, healthy children who we will hopefully watch grow up.

Someone dh knows is not so lucky and her 5 year old is on borrowed time.

My dd, full of cold, grumpy, over tired and teething is now cuddled up in my arms having a sleepy feed. And when she wakes up she'll give me the biggest smile in the hole world

My dh who is so wonderful

My deefas who put up with whatever life throws at them, and are always pleased to see me.

That my family and I are healthy and happy

That we have a warm house with plenty of hot water

That I can afford to buy food and pay bills without worrying where the money is coming from

wine and coffee

OOOh,

*My DS, definatly. I am so so so so so lucky to have him, I am thankful every day that he's here.
*Mumsnet I guess aswell - honestly, its wonderful. I thought you had to give up breastfeeding at 6 months, I thought co-sleeping was wrong, I didnt know about BLW... and ive had tons of support with different things. Sounds cheesy, but its true!
*Health - im getting better all the time, when I look back on 2 + years ago, its amazing how far ive come
*A home - after moving in and out with various exs etc., living with my mum... I now have my own home. Its really all ive ever wanted (apart from DS).

But I take most of that up there for granted! Writing it down has made me thankful again

Ds has been really sick all morning so I have to add that I am very thankful for my washing machine

I am thankful for the chance to be a mother to 2 children. The 1st pregnancy saved my life and the 2nd made me realise this is what i am supposed to do

I am thankful for online friends as my rl ones are not close enough to confide in

I am thankful that i have a roof over my head even if its small and falling to pices around me

I am thankful that this year is nearly over as its been really shit

I'm trying to think but am aware there should be lots of things, at least.

good health