Grateful feedback + Burnt Toast

 

Grateful Feedback  

I'm grateful for each breath I take and good health.

I'm grateful for being resilient, of not fearing the thoughts in my head and for general peace of mind.

I'm grateful for my family and friends who accept me and love me with all my faults and failings. 

 

1. My husband, 3 teens (& pets)

2. My house (& car)

3. Still having my parents alive

 

I’m grateful for my family, my friends and good health. 

 

1) our health & well-being, mental and physical 

2) wonderful grandparents for our boys, setting great examples

3) being settled and content in our lovely home  

 

 

1. My children and our continuing good fortune to being virus free.
2. Being Irish but being able to live freely in a beautiful part of the world (Amersham in Buckinghamshire, UK)
3. My fortunate living conditions: enough food, water, clean air, heating, comfortable home, enough money.

I’m possibly stretching the 3 things but I could add loads of others including a good education, friends, my garden, my computer which allows me to contact people all over the world (including my RE teacher from school ), BBC radio 4...

 

 

1. This Sunday's lunch. Here in Italy restrictions are up again. We can only move around our own area (similar to saying I live in Greenhills so I have to stay within Greenhills unless I'm going to work or have a medical appointment.) Luckily within the area we can visit (only 2 people) though we must keep safe. From Monday we're back to total closure. So the inlaws are coming to lunch today, last time we'll see them for 3 weeks, at least. Aaaand hubby is cooking seafood!!!

2. Internet. Much as many of my colleagues hate it (I'm teaching in a Steiner Waldorf school) it gives me the chance to see my students, it also means I can see my son who moved in with the gf.

3. I'm incredibly grateful for the sun that woke me this morning, the terse sky and the stiff breeze that reminds me of Ireland. Morning sunshine always gives me a lift, though it's been donkey's years since there's been more than 5 cloudy days in a row! (that was just to make you jealous!)

Ps. The little things you take for granted before you lose them are also the ones you are most thankful for when you get them back. Random smiles on the street, hugs and coffee with friends.

 

 

1.  My eyesight. 

 That popped into my head immediately. I can see beauty all around me. I can see my grandchild and his beautiful smile and enjoy playing and doing things with him  I can read and do crossword puzzles. I can drive and be totally independent. So so many things. 

 

2. For you  especially on Sunday mornings when I receive my NFTS  I always look forward to opening it. There is so much food for thought in it. Always uplifting. I don’t say thank you often enough. So a big thank you from me this morning. 

 

3. My family and friends, my home. 

 

Pat when I sit and think about it I have so so much to be grateful for the list just goes on and on. So thinking about being  grateful has made me very aware how much I have to be grateful for. Being alive and able to enjoy simple things and not worrying about things I cannot control. 

 

 

 Thinking about being  grateful has made me very aware how much I have to be grateful for. Being alive and able to enjoy simple things and not worrying about things I cannot control. 

 

 The three things I’m grateful for are as follows:

1) Family & Great Friends

- My immediate family - My husband and best friend  and my two children . I’ve had a mad two+ years and I’d have been lost without their support, patience and love.

- My three amazing sisters, my brother  and my mother and father in law . They have shown me the true meaning of love and support and when the chips are down, who has your back.

- Good Friends - They’ve been a wealth of support and advice and kept believing in me.

2) Laughter - it’s great to be able to laugh !

3) Long Walks

 

My Family – can’t imagine how lonely life could be!

 

Netflix.

 

A Daughter who bakes.

 

My Husband care and thoughtfulness 

My children’s humour and fun

My parent’s positive attitude to the lockdown 

 

I am truly grateful for your posts every Sunday morning. You inspire me, uplift me, and without fail, send something that I can use with my classes. I have built many online classes around your materials.

I am grateful for my family's health, especially that my husband survived a very difficult health issue.

I am grateful for my faith, for knowing the love of God and his faithfulness.

 

I'm grateful to have the beach and ocean within walking distance of my home. 

 

I'm grateful for my Ukulele and the happy circumstance of starting lessons a few months before Covid 19 arrived in our lives. 

 

I'm grateful for my friends. I think I've got the best in the world.

 

And  to add a fourth one... I'm grateful I had a wonderful teacher and mentor who continues to guide me with weekly nutrition for my soul , 

 

For having had good parents

That health problems were overcome

That I found work that was fulfilling

  

 

Burnt Toast

One evening my mother made dinner after a hard day's work. She put a plate of eggs, salad and burnt toast in front of my father ...

I immediately noticed, the burnt toast .... And, I was waiting to see if he was going to complain about it, but my father started to eat them, smiling and asked me how I spent my day at school ...

My mom apologized to my dad for the burnt toast. I will never forget his response to her: "Honey, I love burnt toast!"

Later when I went to bed and my dad came over to kiss me goodnight, I asked him if he really liked the burnt toast?

He hugged me and said, "Your mother has had a difficult day and she is really tired. She went out of her way to prepare this meal for us, why blame her and hurt her.
Burnt toast never hurt anyone; but words can be very painful! "

We have to know how to appreciate what others do for us, even if it's not perfect, because it's the intention to do well that counts, and no one is perfect ...