I’m grateful it warmed up just enough that I could spend some good time outdoors today, still all bundled up but happy to be outside.
I’m grateful for the meeting tonight, to see my Sangha and for everyone’s shares.
I’m grateful to have time to reflect on this year before a new one starts. I do love intention setting. Concrete goals are good too (lights out by 10pm, one coffee a day - wait, that’s not a goal, the plank challenge, etc), but this year - I want to work on cultivating equanimity. There won’t be an end-date to this. Just practice.
I’m grateful for my dark roast coffee beans and that - especially during holidays - I allow myself that second cup. I’ve been taking the first cup back to bed and reading in the morning. So indulgent! I’m grateful for these mornings, the gift to myself of this time.
I’m grateful for this home thread, for all of you Gratidudes.
Grateful that my sobriety, meds, and the mental health and awareness I’ve been working on have given me one of the best Christmases I’ve had in recent memory. Grateful to be able to ignore the inner voice that says I’m not doing enough, grateful to have a bf that encourages me to ignore that voice, relax, and do things I enjoy without feeling anxious or guilty. I spent so much time in my PJs I was running out of PJs, y’all! I played Zelda for days, and the bf made dinner so I could stay on the couch! I mostly didn’t stress out about not getting people better more perfect gifts, I skipped making a big Xmas breakfast and made a reasonable breakfast, and generally scaled things down to a not overwhelming but not underwhelming level. I’m grateful to have enjoyed it, and grateful that I don’t feel just grateful it’s over.
My sobriety
My husbands sobriety
Boscoe and his health
A week off of work!
A plan to fill my free time so im not triggered with the down time
A sober christmas
The house is still relatively clean
A morning AA meeting with sober ladies
Antibiotics for my sinus infection
Getting my brakes fixed for half the dealership price today
Love
Patience
Progress, not perfection
I am grateful for my new Guatemalan coffee beans I opened yesterday.
I’m grateful for the memories it brings me of the 2 mission trips and time spent in Guatemala years ago.
I’m grateful I get to choose to live one day at a time instead of it being a way of life in a third world country.
I’m grateful for all my modern conveniences I take for granted.
I’m grateful I can go in the pantry, grab a new bag of dog food, that I ordered on line. It was delivered. Don’t know how or where they make it. Pack it. Or ship it or anything about it. But it’s always there, in my pantry. Ya,….deep thoughts feeding the pets this morning because the gravel pieces were a tiny bit bigger in this new bag.
I’m grateful we are going to get our snow after the rain from Cali comes this way early tomorrow morning. Frankly I could live without it, but it makes my Houston girl happy. She still acts like a happy child, on a snow day, when she wakes up and sees snow cover. And that to me is priceless.
I’m grateful it won’t be 4 feet of snow like Buffalo
I’m grateful for the posse of pets that follow me from my bed into the bathroom at 6 am to make sure I haven’t forgotten “It’s Time!”
I’m grateful I been sitting around most of the week unmotivated but not feeling depressed. Knowing it’s ok. It’s just this time of year. I don’t HAVE to get things done. But I can do THINGS when I’m ready. And at least I’m getting my walks in.
I’m grateful to look up to find number 10 and it’s going to be the dark silhouette of a cat. Probably Mavy, because I see big ears. Just staring out the big window from the cat condo.
I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.
Brene Brown
I am thankfull that my life is on the recovery road and that it didn’t take me until old age to realise I need to be sober.
I’m thankfull I am sober, as without this I wouldn’t and couldn’t be thankfull of everything else.
I would be a selfish empty shell.
Today I’m grateful for lazyness. I’m happy to be lazy during the 12 days of christmas. Life long tradition. Especially between christmas and new years day. I’m grateful I feel relieved, content, peaceful, and I’m grateful I enjoy being at home. I’m grateful I enjoy being alone! Sometimes I feel guilty that I don’t miss my mum and ex more. I feel guilty that I enjoy to be lazy because I enjoyed christmas with my parents, later with my mum and my ex really. I loved it. Now I still love christmas with all the decoration, glimmer, sparkling and enjoy it alone. Not all alone, embedded in talks and texting with friends. But at home only me & the cats. It’s confusing and I’m grateful I enjoy it. Nobody wants, needs or stresses me. I’m grateful for a peaceful christmas time at home
