Today I am grateful for mothers. Not only my amazing mother, but mothers everywhere. Most of whom work 24/7, seven days a week and not only don’t get paid, but sometimes don’t even get any gratitude. Mothers are amazing, here is to them.
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What are you grateful for?
Today I am grateful for my family who were always there with their love and support. My husband jokes that my parents are always bailing us out of a crisis and he is right. When he got sick after our wedding they came in the early hours of the morning with clothes for him (after taking him to the hospital in the first place) and when I was in labour with our son my parents were a godsend. It is not just my parents I am grateful for; but also my brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins and in-laws. So, yes, today I am incredibly grateful for my family. I love them and they are amazing.
Catch up on other days:
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Day 2.
What are you grateful for?
The small pleasures in life are often the best. So today I am grateful for tea. The bigger the mug, the better. I am so British and few things make me more happy than a good cup of tea. In fact, a bad one will do. That is how much I love tea. It solves (almost) everything. As C.S. Lewis said: You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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It is quite hard to make the ceiling in your home look interesting but I have added a filter which seems to make it look like the sky. Anyway, that brings me to day three of my 30 Days of gratitude: having a roof over my head. With the migrant crisis and a rise in homelessness, having a place to call your own is something to be grateful for indeed.
Catch up on other days:
Day 1.
Day 2.
What are you grateful for?
Following on from day one, here is day two of my thirty days of gratitude. Some people don’t get to find The One but for six years now I have been lucky enough to live my life alongside my best friend, building memories along the way. I am not going to bore you all with the reasons my husband, James, is amazing, I will just say that I know I am lucky to have such a soppy, caring, sweet, loving, decent, hard-working and moral husband. We have been through a lot together and we are as happy today as the day we met. Oh, and he is the father of my son. Thank you James. #30daysofgratitude
I have to be honest. Lately I have been indulging in an unattractive quality. I have been feeling a bit sorry for myself. Yes, even writing that down is embarrassing. Thankfully it has only been the occasional bout and not full on self pity which is never okay. What sparked this feeling of being unlucky? A rather unfortunate trip to A&E. I got a really bad headache, and that along with some eye problems, meant my doctor recommended a trip to hospital. So off I went, baby and husband in tow. I have quite a high pain tolerance but I thought I was going to die and that I was having a brain haemorrhage. Thankfully a CT scan showed nothing. It obviously was not fun and I also ended up having to spend the night in hospital, which was my first night away from my son. In the end a back injury from years ago came back, I have a vitreous detachment in my eye, I had a throat infection, a virus and another infection in my toe. Yes, really. It is fair to say that I was falling apart. I am a self employed freelancer and I also take care of our son while I work from home. It is fair to say that is hard most of the time but while you are ill, it is much worse. There are no sick days when you are a mother. Thankfully this happened on Friday so when I made my way home from the hospital, alone as my husband was with the baby, I had my husband there for the weekend. But then I decided enough was enough. Yes I don’t feel well and I have a backlog of work and a baby who’s needs have to be met, but we live in a beautiful world. There is always something to be grateful about. There is always someone worse off than you. Self care and self love is important, and we should all be allowed to wallow sometimes, but counting your blessings is important so I have decided to start 30 Days of Gratitude. Every day I will share a post about something I am grateful for and I hope you join in, using the #30daysofgratitude hashtag.
30 Days Of Gratitude. Day 1: My Son.
I cannot put into words how grateful I am for my son. He is all my dreams come true and I love every cell in his body, every centimetre of him. He is perfect in every way and makes my heart swell. He is everything there is, and then some more.