Daily Gratitudes 2016

[Lessstressedhemum]

A new thread for a new year. If you would like to pause, breathe and count your blessings, this is the place for you.

Everyone is welcome, we love to see new faces. It doesn't matter whether you have a faith of any kind or no faith at all; whether you post every day or just once: whether your blessings are great or small. Please drop by and be welcome.

Gardening today in chilly, bright sunshine and enjoying the tidiness of it all.

Warm house.
Friend coming back from lengthy holiday soon; it'll be good to catch up.

good night with BB last night
friend's husband who came to do the fireworks. He gives up his time every year to help out with this
facebook chatting with my sister in Australia.

Autumn sunshine
homemade soup

Lovely fireworks last night followed by obligatory bonfire night hotdogs
Rainy Sunday spent doing very little. Two DDs make the house & the day feel full despite the lack of activity

central heating
clean sheets
food and clean water
safety

Time with friends
hot food
shelter

Today more than ever I feel the need to focus on what I have got. Somewhere safe & secure to live, enough to eat, good health.

Agreed, oliver - instead of thinking "This time last year there was an honourable man in the White House, I was a European..." I've tried to focus on the fact that there is much that is pure and good and right in my world.

I think that you have to focus on the good thing in the world because otherwise you would just cry. I cn't believe what is happening just now, hate and fear seem to be winning every battle

healthcare which is free at the point of delivery
a secure, safe place to live
(a very unworthy one) hot men in kilts to cheer me up

If they cheer you up, Less , then that's something to be grateful for. (And who am I to disagree with the attraction of a shapely male calf and a swishy, swirly kilt? )

Warm and safe at home. Loved by my kids.

Gratitude for chaps in kilts has made me smile.

It's a beautiful autumn day. Bright & sunny with a chill in the air. My favourite type of day.

The joy of clearing stuff away (even if half of it just moves into the loft). Feeling good after a really productive morning.

There is nothing like a good looking bloke in a kilt to put a smile on my face. I am shallow!

safety and security
Food and clean water
family and friends

Lovely Sunday walk in the park.
Cuddles with the DDs

Horrendous motorway journey but thankful for a reliable car and a good supply of patience to get me safely home.

I would like to say thank you for the kindness of strangers on MN and for the RL people who are doing what they can to help. For the fact that I have a job and a house. For being able to see.

Welcome, Cocoa. I hope all is well with you.

A time of quiet
The work of my hands

Healthy, happy children.
Tea & biscuits.
My lovely bed even though we're not doing much sleeping at the moment.

Thank you Lessstressed, things are difficult but could be worse, so I am focusing on the blessings I have.

shelter
a productive day
natural medication (kids call it my witchery woo!)
hot food and a wee hot toddy

I have a home that is warm, dry and relatively inexpensive to maintain.
I have children who have each chosen life partners who are very dear to me.
I have friends from more years back than we care to admit to, and some more recently met.

a warm home
beautiful children
literacy
faith

What a great idea.
Cuddling my Gorgeous dc
That he seems to be getting better from recent illness
A glorious sunny day

The starts of advent (nearly)
A beautiful sunny cold winters day
Time spent with family

Feeling very Christmassy, tree up & first door on advent calendars open
Warm house, enough to eat, no worries

My lindt advent calendar!
Finally got round to sorting out my excess on tax free childcare vouchers