Saturday, October 23, 2010

Grateful

We have a tradition in our house. When we sit down and eat together we do "Grateful". We go around the table and each of us says at least one thing that we are grateful for. For the longest time, Adelaide was grateful for "our wonderful geese". Then it was for "this wonderful lunch", it did not matter if we were eating breakfast,lunch or dinner. Now she actually comes up with different things most of the time.

I love that we have started this tradition in our household. It makes us feel better on good days and has a way of really pulling us up if we are having a down day.

Here are just a fraction of things I am grateful for today.
  • I am grateful for my beautiful daughter, her kindness, her health and her love.
  • I am grateful for my husband, who stands by me through thick and thin and loves me unconditionally, a very rare thing in this world.
  • I am grateful for health insurance.
  • I am grateful for a great team of doctors at the University who are trying to decipher what is going on with me.
  • I am grateful for a Mother and Father who love me and pick up the slack when I can not keep up.
  • I am grateful for thrift stores.
  • I am grateful for our dogs and our cats who give us so much love.
  • I am grateful for my extended family and my friends who help to support me and give me encouragement.
  • I am grateful for our two dogs who have had nice litters of puppies.
  • I am grateful for the grants we are getting to help fix up our home and make it more handicap accessible.
  • I am grateful for our farm animals, the eggs they give us and that they give their lives so that we can eat.
  • I am grateful for the flowers Matt and Adelaide picked for me.
  • I am grateful that I can walk.
  • I am grateful for my fingers and my tongue and my hair.
  • I am grateful for the parts of my body that operate without assistance.
  • I am grateful for my heart, despite all its troubles and radiation damage, it still keeps beating every day, allowing me to wake up and enjoy all the things I am grateful for.
  • I am grateful that we have vehicles that run.
  • I am grateful for the big shade tree in our front yard.
  • I am grateful Adelaide has a swing set to play on.
  • I am grateful for life.
  • I am grateful that I woke up today.
  • I am grateful that I got to sleep for 16 hours.
  • I am grateful I can hear.
  • I am grateful for Frannie.
  • I am grateful that my daughter has gotten the chance to meet some of her great grandparents.
  • I am grateful for God and the workings of the Universe.
  • I am grateful for heating assistance.
  • I am grateful for all of the social services that are available that have kept my family fed, warm and in our home.
  • I am grateful that I have had a good education.
  • I am grateful for the roof over my head.
  • I am grateful for warm tea.
  • I am grateful for the prolific garden we were blessed with this year.
  • I am grateful for community acupuncture and our amazing acupuncturist & friend, Mary Borer.
  • I am grateful for my grade school music teacher, Larry Dittberner, who taught me to sing, dance and play a little every day.
  • I am grateful for clean water.
  • I am grateful that we live in such an incredibly beautiful place in this world.
  • I am grateful that I have gotten the opportunity to travel to every state in our nation and 7 foreign countries.
  • I am grateful for LIFE, I may have already said this, but wow, I really am grateful for it.
  • I am grateful for love.
  • I am grateful for fresh tomatoes.
  • I am grateful for the 13 kisses Adelaide just gave me, the big hug and the big smile.
  • Now it is time to go give my husband 13 kisses, a big hug and a big smile.
  • I am grateful they are here.

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