The post from Erma about "I Believe" made me think that some of us might enjoy compiling a gratitude list now that Thanksgiving is getting close. Please feel free to add to it any time you might feel grateful for something or someone. Here's a start:
I'm grateful that I am healthy and well.
I'm grateful that my hubby and pup are healthy and well.
I'm grateful that I have a safe, warm and comfortable place to live and good, healthy food to nurture me.
I'm grateful for my family, my extended family and my virtual family. (WWU)
I'm grateful for my two Websites and my Web-work.
I'm grateful that I am able to feel grateful.
I am eternally grateful that I gave birth to three absolutely perfect healthy babies. Motherhood I thought would be challenging enough for me without health obstacles.
I'm grateful that I've been provided with everything I need in life, and that happiness is mine for the taking.
adding to it luise..............
i am grateful for,
my dear family and friends
my animals
a roof over my head and food in our fridge
to be able to laugh
to able to see the insignificant tiny things in life
not taking life granted
remembering where i came from
remembering i have choices
knowing somebody loves me
i can love myself
i can love others for who they are
freedom
and those little tiny bubbles that tickle from champage
and who ever invented chocolate
::) 8) ;D
Quote from: erma on November 12, 2010, 09:25:26 AM
adding to it luise..............
i am grateful for,
my dear family and friends
my animals
a roof over my head and food in our fridge
to be able to laugh
to able to see the insignificant tiny things in life
not taking life granted
remembering where i came from
remembering i have choices
knowing somebody loves me
i can love myself
i can love others for who they are
freedom
and those little tiny bubbles that tickle from champage
and who ever invented chocolate
::) 8) ;D
I love this. Whoever did invent chocolate in any form, thank you! Love it all, creamy and fudgey, especially.
I'm thankful I can laugh most of all. I'm so grateful that no matter what happens, I can turn it into something I can laugh about. Remind me to tell you all about the lady who sang last week with 35 different hats, each one representing a different movie tune. :'( I thought I was going to die. It was one of those ladies meetings and she was the entertainment. Every hat represented a different song. Her voice was in the upper stratosphere, kind of ear piercing. :'( She was my age or older...I think older.
No one was listening to her because we were at tables and chatting with our friends so she screamed out loud to about 100 women that she was leaving after this one last song and we had not behaved!!! :-[ She had 16 or so hats to go so she sang her last song and huffed off in a corner like a three year old.
Ok, you don't need to remind me now. I've already told it.
oh, another thing im greatful for is the feeling you get when you pull a freshly tumbled clean warm blanket from the dryer and hold it close to you........................... :)
I'm so very grateful for the brand new baby girl who has come into our family through adoption. Daughter and SIL took her straight home (condo in another state) and were absolutely pros at taking care of her. She turned 4 weeks old yesterday and my goodness what changes she has made into our family.
I am also grateful for my grandson, even though I don't get to see him but 2 or 3 times a year. They live 12 hours from us and his parents are usually so incredibly busy that sometimes it's not convenient to visit.
I am grateful for this site and am learning something new every day.
I am grateful for my husband of 39 years and that we are both retired, don't owe a bunch of money and can do pretty much what we want to.
I am grateful for all the service people in the US and their allies who work at keeping us free.
I am grateful for so many things, these are just a few:
My wonderful parents and sister who are now angels watching over me
My wonderful husband
My three beautiful children
Our health
The wonderful stress-free life that I so enjoy
My friends
I am grateful for having Life.
I am grateful that I am becoming wiser with age
I am grateful that I can spot a good person really fast
I am grateful that I am becoming less and less needy
I am grateful that I know that some things will never change
I am grateful that when I make a mistake, I know why
I am grateful for living my life to the best of my ability
:) :D ;D 8) :P :-*
Wanted to share this great quote from a great woman!
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie
I am Grateful i am healthy
I am Grateful for my friends and family
I am Grateful for my home
I am Grateful for my job
I am Grateful for WWU
I am Grateful for healing and growing
I am Grateful for the ability to care about others
And most of all Grateful for an Awesome God
Hey BarelyThere, You are here. I know Laurie was looking to connect with you and then I was too. Good to see you on
the forum. Hope you are well.
A few gratitudes:
Getting to make a 'once in a lifetime' spiritual pilgrimage in India
My health
My hubby
my DS (even if he is quite difficult) and step children and grandkids
my community of friends
being blessed to live in a sweet and culturally rich town
my spiritual teachers
having great resources when I need them for consultation, health concerns, etc. etc.
that I haven't eaten white sugar since June 3
Oh last but certainly not least Wise Women United
I am grateful for my loving, patient, kind hubby. And for God to give me the wisdom to try again or I would have missed out on great happines.
I am grateful for my health, my hubby's health, my children's health and my family's health.
I am grateful that I still have both of my parents and that I appreciate them.
I am grateful that I have a job and security, where many don't.
I am grateful for my friends and their tolerance of each other's differences.
I am grateful that my YS has been kept safe in his military training.
I am grateful to all the servicemen and women that give and have gave up their freedom, to protect ours.
I am grateful for this forum, and all the wonderful women that are part of it.
I am grateful for laughter.
And most of all, I am grateful for forgiveness. Our ability to receive it and give it.
I am grateful for my family
I am thankful for my sorrows because they made me more human and humble.
I am thanful for being able to laugh...inspite of hardship
I am thanful because I have someone to love and lean on
I am grateful for my proven friends....who are always there for me
I am grateful for my golden years....because it brought peace and grandchildren to me
I am thanful for bumping into this site....because it has enriched my life.....(thanks Luise and Wise ladies)
and the list goes on
Happy Thanksgiving ....to all of you.....love
I'm grateful that Thanksgiving is in early October in Canada! It's too cold now and too close to Christmas!
Also, I'm grateful that it's going to be SUPER quiet at work because most of our customers are American and they will be at HOME.
Thanksgiving Day
This week in the mail I received the historical sheet on my grandparents. My aunt and I worked hard on this with the National Park Service. They now are enshrined forever. It was a marvelous day to receive the brochure. I only wish my grandmother could see it.
I am so grateful for my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and my paternal grandmother. I didn't know my paternal grandfather, because he was killed by a drunk driver when my father was ten years old, but I am grateful for the photos and memories passed down of him; according to all, he was an absolutely wonderful person.
Kathleen
Rose,
I love your statement that the documents "brought your grandparents to life."
My grandfather was stationed in New York harbor during World War II, escaping a marriage his father wanted to arrange back on a midwestern farm. He met my grandmother in New York; she was very beautiful and fashionable and ahead of her times, working in a telegraph office. They fell completely in love. Their lives were not easy raising seven kids during the Depression after the war in the midwest.
After my mother died, my aunt began sending me documents and among them was a menu from a Thanksgiving dinner at the New York military site in 1918. I went to visit the New York island, now a National Monument, and began talking to a park ranger, who was keenly interested in the menu. I sent him a xerox of it and then my aunt turned up yet another menu from a second year. My grandparents attended this dinner together. Then six historians did a conference call with my elderly aunt, to find out more about Grandpa's service and what he had said to her while she was growing up. My aunt then donated her menu to the historic site; it is in good condition but was so valuable to the Park Service that they had it transported via government mail. We then learned that of 1,5000 men who served in the company, our document, the menu, was the only one that has survived from any one of them. It is the only current link to any of all those men who served!!!!!!!! It is historically very important because it contains names of others in the company serving those years, and now the historians have something to work with in terms of possibly contacting family members like us, hopefully to obtain more oral histories and even documents.
My grandfather, a crack mechanic who could "fix anything," according to my aunt, was ashamed that he never went overseas during the War. But the historians have set things right: the military site protected the vital harbors of both New York and Washington, and his skills were needed to repair machines and armaments that went back overseas. That is why he never served in Europe. He was in fact extremely important, and since he served four years, he produced a tremendous amount of repairs to absolutely essential war machinery.
The historians have memorialized my grandparents in a full-page, single-spaced, double-sided "brochure" complete with a beautiful photo of them sitting together in Central Park on a big rock. Grandpa is in full uniform and has his arm around Grandma, in her stylish dress, pretty high heeled shoes and big hat. It is so lovely to know them in this way. I cried for twenty straight minutes when I got the "brochure" last week, it is so beautiful, and I immediately knew how happy my grandmother would have been to see it. The feelings on receiving this and seeing my grandparents honored in this way are indescribable. It was like experiencing time travel.
I cannot imagine my childhood and adult life without the joy of knowing these two wonderful people. Mother allowed me full access and we were at their house at least once a week. We lived with them when I was first born. How poor my life would have been without them. Thank you again and again, Mother, for including your parents so fully in my life.
The island also is starting a museum and when it opens, Grandma, Grandpa, their photo and their story, along with the menu, will be under glass for all visitors to this National Historic Monument to see. My husband says it's giving him goosebumps.
What really lights my imagination, also, is how these two documents survived nine decades of travel and moves from New York City to the midwest, from house to house, until my aunt, who saved everything after my grandparents died, stuck them in a box, never dreaming of their significance. How in the world did they survive? If they had arrived in a bottle that crossed seven oceans I could not be more astonished.
I still have the second menu in our safe. I am considering donating it also to the Park Service for safekeeping. I have to think about this carefully.
It is the loveliest thing to take it out and look at it. I don't know yet if my boys (the two that are in our lives) will want it. The son who has abandoned his family will probably never even know about it, although my DIL would be keenly interested in any monetary value. My youngest son saw the "brochure" yesterday and was absolutely blown away. He kept exclaiming, "Wow, wow, wow!" It has given him great pride in the great grandparents he never knew. It has caused me to experience fully exactly how much children who cut off their families miss. But it has made me even more grateful for my grandparents in my life.
Thanks for writing, Rose, and I would love to hear more about your grandparents. What documents do you have? I am sorry you did not get to see them very much growing up, but they will always live in your heart.
Kathleen
Thanksgiving is over for another year and part of me is grateful. We decided that while I'm pretty good at putting out this spread, unless the kids will be home next year we are going to bypass and annual people stuffing and do something more 'fun'.
I'm also grateful that I had enough wine in me to not really feel the burned knuckle I got when pulling out the turkey... maybe I got the burned knuckle because I had enough wine in me..
By 11:00am we had opened the bottle of wine, broke out the cheese and veggie trays, 30 minutes later I didn't care if I ate any turkey as I was ready to move onto the desert table. Maybe that is how it should be approached. Hope everyone had a good day.. I'm tired now and have this subdivision party happening at my house a week from tomorrow.. back to it.. laters...
Kathleen and Rose799, I'm fascinated by family stories. Thank you for sharing. Kathleen, I'm so happy for you and your family to have found such wonderful documentation about your ancestors and to have it enshrined for all of us at the Park. I've done some family research of my own which I won't discuss in detail here, and it literally makes me shiver when I discover something in an unexpected way. Have either of you had your DNA done? I'm eager but don't know how to proceed - some companies are not as professional/scientific as others, I've heard.
Laurie, so glad you survived Thanksgiving. I didn't open the wine early but perhaps I should have since I was forgetful and clumsy anyway. It all turned out fine and I, too, am glad it's over. If I can get out of it next year I will - perhaps we should start planning now.
Hello ladies. I'm also fascinated by family stories. I dug up some information on my great grandfather a few years ago and a picture of him, I've also found some cousins living abroad that I didn't know and we stay in contact via facebook and I made copies of all the documents to give to each of my children, well, won't you know it, my DIL said that I was selfish and only interested in things about myself. I explained to DS that I gave him copies just in case he was interested and also so that he could tell his children about their ancestors, that they were just copies so if he didn't want them he could throw them away.
Hi Everyone!!! And I will be Grateful when I understand how to use this site. I am new...I made a posting this morning and now I cannot find it to see if I have any comments and replies...HELP...
Now I am grateful for everyone and everything that touches my Heart, Thank You Anna....