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30 Days of Gratitude Day Twelve #30daysofgratitude

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Yesterday I had quite a stressful day. If only I made a list of things I was sick of, I thought, it would be so much easier than my gratitude list. After I thought this I began to wonder if it was true. Life is hard for all of us, no matter how it looks on the outside. We all have problems and stress. Sometimes our inner world is full of pain and turmoil will those on the outside look at us thinking we have it all together, or envy what we have. There are some emotions I never allow myself to indulge in: envy and jealousy are two of these. If someone has something that I want, I either go and get if for myself, or I deal with it in a mature way. We don’t all get what we want, and neither should we. So today I am grateful for what I do have. As I write this the sun is coming in through the blinds and some beautiful roses my parents bought me for my first Mothers’ Day are on the table. It is a Saturday so my husband is at home. This is when I am most happy: when I have my family around me. So today I am grateful for being loved enough to be sent flowers, grateful for my boys, and grateful just to have so much to be grateful for. Even if, on bad days, I feel that it can not rival all of the things getting on my last nerve.

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30 Days of Gratitude Day Eleven #30daysofgratitude

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Today I am grateful for friends. I have amazing friends and for that I am lucky. They know who they are. I love all of you gals and guys.

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Lynn and Steve.

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Hen night fun.

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Keshini.

I am friends with Holly even though she looks like this in a bikini. That is real friendship.

I am friends with Holly even though she looks like this in a bikini. That is real friendship.

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Margaret.

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30 Days of Gratitude Day Nine #30daysofgratitude

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Today I am grateful for cats. I love the furry little creatures. I have had four cats in my life. Rusty, Gizmo and Beauty have all sadly died but Trigger is still alive. He lives with my parents as he is the family cat and he recently met my son. My son had never seen a cat before and loved Trigger and stroked him. My husband also had an amazing cat called Natasha who died recently. We hope to get another cat soon so Luke can have the gift of growing up with a pet. We had Rusty for fourteen and a half years and we still remember her and how amazing she was to this day. Here is to cats. They are the best.

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30 Days of Gratitude Day 5 #30daysofgratitude

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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.

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30 Days of Gratitude Day Four #30daysofgratitude

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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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30 Days Of Gratitude. Is it time we all count our blessings?

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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.

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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.