So, why am I so grateful?
Well to start off, I am so grateful to have the most wonderful husband(ish) in the world. He is the man I have been searching for my whole life. He is the man I spoke of and wrote about in my journal. He is the man I knew was out there for me and I am so lucky to have found him! He truly is amazing. I have tears in my eyes right now as I think about just how much I love him. He is the most patient person I have met. He has stood by my side and supported me through the times I was not the self he once met, such as my pregnancy and the many after effects of the car accident. He is so open and understanding and communicative about all those issues that are trivial to most men but can be so bothersome to most women. He helps me see the bigger picture and soothes my worrisome mind. He is trusting, forgiving and compassionate not only to me, but all people that he meets. He is loving, passionate, and tender. He is sweet, sincere, and kind. He laughs at my jokes and I laugh at his. We have many similar interests there is never a dull moment. He is an amazing father. He does yoga, cleans, and makes the bed every day, just because. He can cook the most delicious and healthy meals on short notice as if it were nothing. He sets my soul on fire and calms my soul like the ocean breeze. He is my soul mate, the yang to my yin, sometimes the yin to my yang, and I am so grateful to have him in my life!
I am so grateful to be the mother of the most 2 ½ year old
girl. She is so intelligent I feel as
though I am speaking to a 4-6 year old at times. She absorbs things quicker
than a sponge. She is incredibly curious about the world around her. She loves
to read books and learn new things. She respects nature and has a love for all
living creatures (well except those pesky mosquitoes). She is kind and gentle
with her friends. She is a great helper and leader of her peers. She gives the most amazing hugs and neck
massages. She isn’t concerned with large expensive toys and can play with 3 Polly
Pockets and 2 changes of clothes for an entire weekend. She has the attention span of a 5 year old
yet is still active. She eats her fruits and veggies, and doesn’t know much
about the land of sugar and candy. She is creative, imaginative, compassionate,
and considerate. She has a great self-awareness
and notices the finest details wherever we go.
She has such an impeccable
memory; she is my grocery list app. She has taught me so much about the depth
and importance of emotions, children, and life in general. I am so grateful to
have given birth to an amazing daughter and I am privileged to watch her grow
every day.
I am grateful to have such a large, diverse family. I have a
mom and a stepdad who are forgiving and accepting of me and my not so good
traits as well as almost anyone they meet. My mom is the best conversationalist
in the world and can have the longest conversation with a stranger. She can
organize a closet and fold a sheet or a towel like nobody’s business. She is a
very strong and determined woman who has shown me many great things about how
to be an exceptionally organized and caring mother. My step-dad would give his
left arm to a help out a stranger off the street. He is a jokester who can
dance a jig and do a mean ‘Bill Cosby’ shuffle.
I have 6 siblings who mean the world to me. I have an older sister who taught me how to be
a big sister at an earlier age. Although we rarely got to see each other
growing up, she has always loved me and remembered me every birthday and
Christmas. One sister is creative, courageous, and stands up for what she believes,
another sister is supportive, humorous, and compassionate. I have another sister who is accomplished,
helpful, and determined and another who is empathetic, amazing with children,
and so much fun to hang out with. I have
a brother who is generous, loving, and passionate. I am so grateful to have a
family who is so fun to hang out with, forgiving of mistakes we all make, and who
teach me every day whether they mean to or not that love and spending time
together is the most important thing in life.
I am so appreciative of having the most caring friends. I have a friend who listens without
judgement, shares from the heart, and is the most generous person I know. I
have another friend who tells it like it is, helps me see the bigger picture,
is gentle, patient, humorous, magnetic, and mesmerizing. I have another friend
who is honest, grounded, compassionate, strong, level headed, and
generous. I have another friend who is
adventurous, fun, caring, and sweet. I have another friend who will stop at
nothing to pursue her dreams, lets nothing hold her back, listens with her
whole soul, and can keep up to my dancing.
I have many friends and acquaintances who share their thoughts and
feelings and teach me how to be a better person. I meet many new people who help give me new
perspectives on life and various topics. I am so grateful to have met such wonderful friends,
acquaintances, and even strangers who I can share my thoughts, hearts desires,
and that I can learn so much from.
I am extremely fortunate to be able to work in the comfort
of my home. I am so blessed to be able to witness the miracle of other amazing
young children grow and learn. I have the luxury of teaching curious toddlers based
on their interests rather than to a test and without writing report cards based
on the results. I get to go for wagon rides, play at various parks, build
towers, play with Polly Pockets, line up Hot Wheels, paint, colour, play with
Play-Doh, do puzzles, practice my photography skills with cute kids, dress up, play
make-believe, have pretend picnics, dance to Pocket Full of Sunshine and many
fun kids songs, do kids yoga, sing off key without judgement, read literally hundreds
of new kid’s books every month, explore and express my imagination and
encourage them to do so too in fun and creative ways. AND if I needed one, I
can have a nap during most nap times! I am so grateful to have the opportunity
of raising my child and that other parents give me the honor of being their
child’s care giver while they are at work.
I am also grateful for so many random things; I have an
amazing God who loves me no matter what happens and forgives me no matter what
I do. I have a mind/body that tells me
what I need whenever I am willing to connect with it. I live in beautiful
country with a jazzy, fun-spirited city that has fresh water and ample
opportunities. We rent the cutest townhouse condo in a great neighbourhood and
will soon be buying a cozy little house. We have wonderful paths for biking and
walking close by. I have fresh basil plants growing out back. I picked up a
brand new Magic Bullet from a garage sale for $20. I am so appreciative to have received 3
garbage bags of really nice clothes. We have
a nice vehicle. The new Circle Drive overpass is amazing and will allow me to
visit my sisters in half the time. I love that I’m able to read and learn about
new things and that I can share this knowledge with other people. I can learn
from the many amazing authors who publish their stories to share with the
world. To be able to go to a library that provides so much material for free. I
bought a new pillow that fits me just right. I am thankful for Raffi and Charlie Hope, and other children's musicians, great parenting books, the internet, farmers, and health food stores. I am grateful for long weekends, all genres of
music, cell phones, stickers, coloured paper, sunny days, green grass, blue
skies, foliage and colourful flowers.
I am grateful to be me.
I’m thankful to have had 37 years’ worth of experiences. I love that I am passionate about life. I appreciate my ability to forgive others
easily, my free-spirited nature, open-mindedness, willingness to understand
another person’s viewpoint, be brutally honesty, and see the positive of the
worst situations. I adore my straightforwardness,
trustworthiness, organizational skills and care of nature. I love that I seek information to better
myself and share that knowledge with others and that I try to make healthy,
natural choices in eating and living. I
love my dancing skills, my painting/drawing ability, sense of humour, and my
big juicy bum. I’m thankful for all those awful, hurtful, awkward, worrisome,
drawn out, and painfully rough transitional moments I have endured because I
know those are the moments that have made me appreciate life even more, be a stronger,
wiser, and more grateful person.
With all this love and joy of life it’s difficult to contain
it!
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