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.

My children
Wonderful service today
Singing
More volunteers for foodbank. I might even get an afternoon off!

I am so grateful that things are looking up again long may it last, for the busyness of the weekend that was just fun, not an escape from anything, for work and colleagues, and most of all for true friends.

Off work.

Grateful for rest.
Grateful for blankets and sofa.
Grateful for supportive family.

Hope you feel better, kinky. Fibro sucks. One step forward, two back. Try to keep warm, hydrated and as nourished as you can. I know how hard it is to eat properly in a slump, but it helps a bit.

Gratitudes
Dentists
Rest
Warmth
Easy food

Grateful for health and energy and busyness.

Grateful for an interesting and useful mornings work, great colleagues and the germ of an idea to ruminate over.

Grateful for having the means to go on a long trip to visit loved ones soon.

Some evenings I sit down and I realise I haven't been thankful for a single thing all day; too busy with busyness and stress. But of course I have a million things to be grateful for. Tonight, for my comfortable life, and good friends.

I've been really poorly this week and the gratitude has slid. So, getting back on track:

Bright mornings.
Time with DH.
Nourishing food.

For the second morning in a row the sun has successfully battled its way through the mist. Beautiful.

For our lovely AP who I shouldn't take so much for granted.

Sun, sunny dc, fairly peaceful weekend, friends to share interests with --while dh still in bed again- and chance and proximity to it really helps. Oh and birdsong, daffodils, lovely, nearly Spring.

Sunshine
Sleep
Family
Faith
Birdsong

Hope you feel better, kinky. Have been bad the past couple of weeks as well. Sometimes, it's hard to see the good things.

Blue sky
Sunshine
Birdsong
Warmth

Sunshine, spring flowers and my Ddog.

More sunshine 🌞
Ddog, aren't they such loveable creatures?!
House to myself, lovely peace
Coffee and exercise buzz.

A surprisingly enjoyable evening volunteering, plans for the future, the luxury of delicious food.

Sleep (not enough, but anyway)
The ability to bounce back
The psalms

Sometimes things change in a blink of an eye don't they?

I hope you all have good days. less and kinky hope you're feeling a bit better

I need your ability to bounce back, Edith! But hope you're ok??

Today am grateful for warmth, dc safe and ddog. That at least.

Edith. I also wish I could bounce back!

Still struggling.

Grateful for hot drinks, crocheted blankets and naff telly.

Thank you, Edith, wish I could bounce back. However, there are plenty of good things in life to be grateful for

Sunshine
Dry washing, ds3 reckons I assaulted his nose yesterday, making him smell it!
Birds at the feeders
Faith
Rubbish telly programmes

Sleep
Warmth
That the females in my household can afford sanitary protection
That my wee foodbank routinely gives women and girls sanpro already so that they don't have to be embarrassed or stigmatised. Please consider donating sanpro and basic hygiene items like loo roll, soap and toothpaste to your local foodbank too help give people a bit of dignity.

That's a good one, Less, so easy to take for granted and not as sexy as a goat for charitable donations . Which is ridiculous really as often leads to teenage girls in developing countries, for example, missing 25% of their high school education due to lack of Sanpro and lack of facilities st school . Makes me mad but so few people realise the repercussions.

Today am also grateful for being able to afford Sanpro (even as taxed) , for predictions of a sunny day, that dc1 is more or less okay and that ddog is with us to bring a bit of light relief.

Grateful for the time I need to do most of the things that need to be done today. I recognise that pressures of time can be crippling for some.