Daily Gratitudes 2014

[Annunziata]

Old thread here

Welcome to our Gratitudes for 2014! The lovely crescentmoon started last years, and we are running out of space. So, here is our 2014 thread-for little things that go well for us each day.

Any MNer can join in! From any faith, no faith, every day, once in a while, everyone is welcome!

I am grateful for
a New Year and new starts
all my grown up DC having a good time at parties and returning home safely
a warm bath and a glass of wine

I am grateful for:

Friday
My lovely DD getting a training day from school so she has a bit of R&R today
Marmite on toast with a big cup of tea

I'm grateful that I found this thread just after musing to myself that I should start up a gratitude journal but that I probably wouldn't have the energy or remember.

I'm grateful that DS1 and I were able to have a magical day together while a family member watched DS2. I will never forget his eyes lighting up when the Ferris wheel started to move.

I'm grateful for blue skies.

Coughle.

I missed watching DS's chubby little wrists as he wrote his letters really neatly for his decoding homework. At 5, he is caught between little and big.

Welcome, coughie Enjoy them while they are little, it doesn't last nearly long enough, although, I know, that some days, it can seem like an eternity.

Kinnky, it's nice to be appreciated, isn't it.

gratitudes -
thunderstorms (I love to watch them)
shelter from said storms
painkillers
safe and healthy children

5 is still so little... my pfb is nearly 25

Lovely to have you Coughie.

gratitudes
DD's mad teenage fashion sense
a good cleaning day

Today's gratitudes:

• my lovely family
• sunday sofa time with a cup of tea and crochet
• sunday dinner
• time yet to come having a cuddle with DS and reading books

I spend so much of my time feeling we should have more, do more and be more (brainwashed) and then I stop and write this and realise that my life is perfect because these people are in it and they are my family. So, I am also grateful for this thread for making me remember that.

Today:

• lovely picture drawn for me by DS
• lovely flapjack made by DD
• Lilo and Stitch as our evening film
• cushions and throws to snuggle amongst

Welcome, tal.

gratitudes -
dry washing before the weather turns
shelter and warmth
slow week, this week - thank you, GOd, I don't think that I could have kept up this week, without a little bit of a break.
DS1 did really well at the post grad chem eng training course his work sent him on - one more step towards his chartering
family and friends
food and readily accessible clean water
mains electricity

hello everyone

gratitudes
music
dancing

family
Saturday
evenings drawing in, curtains closed, on the sofa, Strictly with my boys.
parents coming to visit tomorrow

gratitudes
family
mamma
weddings

Family
A big cup of tea and gratitude whilst everyone sleeps
Half term fast approaching

Nice birthday meal for DH with my lovely family
Warmth
The secret diary of Adrian mole

food, water, safety and shelter
friends and family
singing
faith

That we all survived 'The Noro'.

Hope you are okay [head]

A hot cup of tea
An early night
A relatively straight forward day that allowed me to get on top of a couple of things [unfortunately tomorrow will not be so easy, but tomorrow is another day]
Cuddly little boy in a onesie

The dreaded noro Glad you're through it now!

Hoping tomorrow is not as bad as you think, kinky.

gratitudes
baby cuddles
that the wind has stopped!

It went okay and I am grateful for that.

I am also grateful forL

it nearly being the weekend
healthy children
my daft cats

my cosy home
my children
training day so a chance to get some things done at work

Hello ladies.

This might be quite a long post, and as I haven't posted yet on this thread, I'm sorry if that seems a bit rude. The last time I posted any Gratitudes was February last year, I had to look back to the old thread to find my last post, and it was under a different name, which was Clouds. Since then, I have had many things to be thankful for, but being thankful has never been more important to me than it is just now, so I hope you don't mind me sharing.

My lovely DH died four weeks ago, which I'm not really thankful for, but as it apparently had to happen, there is so much that I do have to be thankful for, and it has given me immeasurable strength in my darkest of days. I am hopeful that it will continue to do so, and that I will be able to look back on this list if I need to.

I am thankful for

The time I had with my beautiful husband, for everything that he gave me, and the love we share.
The friends who did so much to make his send off special, personal and memorable.
The friends and family that made themselves available to just be with me, to carry me, and help me get through the first weeks without my DH.
The phonecalls, the cards, the messages, the flowers and the visits that all told me that DH and I were in someone's heart and prayers when we needed it most.
The fact that I can pay tax to enable me to live in a country where police are willing and able to go above and beyond the call of duty to do something small but that gives so much meaning.
The Internet, that has provided me with an opportunity to do this, and enabled me to have mild distraction, to recieve messages of love and support from all over the world, and to be comforted and inspired by others who have experienced this pain.

There is plenty more, but I could be here all day. Most of all I am thankful for the good and the kindness that is in so many beautiful people. I have seen it recently in a way that some people rarely or never do, and with a perspective I would never have known otherwise. It is that pure goodness in people that is enabling me to carry on.

WooWoo Thinking of you

Welcome back WoooWooo, please don't think you are being rude at all! I am so very sorry about your husband. I am so glad people have came through to help you though

Yesterday:

a personal epiphany
cuddles with family
a vege version of puttenesca for tea

a dry day
nap time
music
my favourite brother