Not-quite-daily gratitude

Yeah, so…the daily isn’t working so well lately…

And I’m OK with that.

Today, I am very grateful for:

• New directions and emerging possibilities
• A family that supports me in that, even though it means lots of craziness and extra hoopla
• A good friend who is helping me open myself to all those possibilities
• Feeling inspired to exercise and actually doing it
• The new cushy mattress topper that promises to bring with it more comfortable sleep (if not more refreshing — maybe both!)
• My daughter’s wonderful smile

 

Daily Gratitude

Yeah for me! Actually daily again!

Today, I’m grateful for:

• My little space heater — nothing like being able to get some instant heat when my joints start being pissy!
• My fabulous new cushion from a good friend who recently returned from Thailand — I’m totally using this in the meditation session today!
• The meditation session and all those who participate — especially the wonderful Samantha who facilitates and guides and motivates me in many ways.
• All the students who have either already dealt with or are finding a way to deal with their issues so that it is quiet at work and I can actually get some things done!
• My loving hubby — even though he didn’t say goodbye to me this morning or give me a goodbye kiss (pout)
• My wonderful daughter who makes every day fun and interesting.
• The future and the potential it brings.

 

Daily+ Gratitude

Today I am grateful for:

• Meetings that get me out of the office
• Great friends who “get it”
• A hubby who doesn’t wig out when I start talking about changing careers
• Fabulous pearls from the Philippines (especially when delivered in person by great friends who “get it”)
• Knowing that we’ll find a way to get through this and on to the fun part

 

Daily Gratitude

Long, long day…but it is nearly time for bed. Count that as my first grateful thing!

I’m also grateful for:

• Random moments of warm-ish weather in the midst of winter (wish it would stay…)
• Learning that watching ice skating on TV can help calm down a 6-year old.
• My ability to stay relatively chill when that same 6-year old is crying at, literally, the top of her lungs about nothing in particular (her car seat is a little crooked, she thinks I used my frustrated voice…)
• Coming out the other side of said temper-tantrums and imagining nothing more fulfilling than being home to care for her all the time (of course, the job doesn’t work so well with that…)
• Cats who know exactly when you need some snuggles.
• Good friends returning home after distant travels (and bringing fabulous jewelry with them!)
• Patience and clarity.
• My hubby.

 

Daily+ Gratitude

Seems I’m starting a trend…need to address that.

In the meantime, I’m grateful for:

• Weekends — wish there were more of them.
• Patience — and that I tend to be able to have some in the face all sorts of…well…stuff.
• Surprise sodas hiding in the back of the refrigerator.
• Nuts being healthy (in moderation), so I can still eat them while trying to eat well.
• Having the energy to actually cook dinner (honestly don’t remember the last time I did that solo).
• Electric blankets. I know I’ve said that before, but I really am (and I’m looking forward to crawling under mine soon).
• The prospects of getting my life/our lives organized.

 

Daily+ Gratitude

OK, so, I totally didn’t post a gratitude yesterday. I realized that when I was in bed for the night after a long day spent at home in bed (FM flare + jetlag = yuck!) and decided that I was grateful that I didn’t have to get up and type up gratitudes at that point.

So, count that for yesterday!

Today, I’m grateful for:

• Thinking I may have figured out what I want to be when I grow up (expect more on this as we move forward).
• Having a hubby who understands and supports me and loves me enough to be OK with my going off after another totally different career plan.
• Friday, which means tomorrow is the weekend!
• Snuggly cats.
• Snuggly kids.
• Snuggles, in general.
• Electric blankets (and eagerly awaiting the arrival of the big one for the bed that was, supposedly, delivered a couple weeks ago, but wasn’t so now we’re in week two or so of the “investigation.”)

 

Daily Gratitude

I’ve been having a FM flare today, so kept putting off (and then forgetting) my gratitudes. I think, though, it’s days like this when I need them most. I’ll try to remember that next time…

Today, I’m grateful for:

• A hubby who is supportive enough to run all the way back downstairs to bring be my computer when I remembered I hadn’t posted my gratitudes yet.
• A daughter who is a hoot and a half as she experiments with all sorts of new words and asks all sorts of interesting new questions (one of today’s nest: “Is there a place way way down where there’s like a desert and there’s lots of dead people walking around?” She isn’t talking about hell, for those who might think she is, but about a plot element in an El Tigre cartoon.)
• Cats who snuggled with me all day because they knew I was feeling lousy.
• Again with the supportive hubby, this time though for supporting me as I explore other possibilities for where I might take my life in the future.
• Bedtime!

 

Daily Gratitude

Today I’m grateful for/that:

• An unexpected visit from a friend and student. I always feel refreshed after we’ve had one of our chats.
• The first day of class was successful (despite being exhausted).
• The kitties have all fallen right back into their snuggling routines.
• Having 84 dreams so far (still working toward 101)
• Identifying a key foreground goal (“I will successfully complete and defend my dissertation by the end of December 2010″).

 

Daily Gratitude

Long day of traveling today, so I’m exhausted and hurting. Despite that, I’m grateful for:

• Having had a fun time with hubby and Pkin in California.
• Having an uneventful couple of return flights (and actually getting back 2 hours earlier than I thought we were because my memory is dicey).
• That all the kitties are alive and have forgiven us for leaving them (proof = returned to their set snuggle spots).
• Just being home…

 

Daily Gratitude

Today is our last day in California. As much as we’ve enjoyed it and as wonderful as it’s been to not have to think about work, I’m ready to be home (as is my body, which is convenient since it will be going with me).

Today I’m grateful for:

• Generally being able to enjoy this trip without being constantly tired or in pain.
• Finding that I actually kind of like mild exercise sometimes.
• Time alone with hubby and Pkin, even when she’s a bit cranky (like this morning).
• Pkin rolling with it when we forgot hubby’s swimsuit at our last hotel and I wasn’t up to swimming.
• Spending time in CA and finding that I actually kind of like (even prefer) where we live in VA (northern — important to note).