mary rose, treasure every minute you have with your parents...i miss mine but am grateful for so much from them! dorraine, i think we should have fun and laughter every day!!! we get so bogged down in stupid stuff. thanks for the reminder!!! xoxoxox

i am grateful to know that i have a job in my district next year, and that i do not have to move.  i'm grateful to live in the country, and for good friends.  mostly, i'm grateful for people who are loving and kind to others, and will throw a net to those less fortunate than themselves.

 

i'm grateful for people who can see solutions, and are willing and able to step up.  

amen, sweet karrie. amen!!!

i am grateful for the sacrifice of others to make life better for anyone and everyone.

i'm grateful for all the love floating around out there and in here!

Today I am filled with gratitude for all our children and their amazing accomplishments! Graduation, graduation, and graduation ... three! Two in May, one in June, and one in August .... yep, I am filled with gratitude and pride :-)

i love reading the things you folks are grateful for! graduations are the sum of years of work....something to be thankful for indeed! i'm so thankful for the blooming things outside. spring is such a magical time of year. and i'm thankful for a mother who was fun and intelligent and so good to me!

beautiful Lisa .. and I just noticed I don't know how to count! I am grateful that I can laugh at myself! We have four FOUR graduates that fill my heart with gratitude :-)!

Gratitude for my loving amazing charming helpful intelligent resourceful best friend my husband. Yep, I am so grateful that he is my partner and friend ... at this very moment he and our grandson are in bed for nap time listening to The Duck Song ... amazing man he is :-)

I am grateful for the walk I just took and my friend's cabin and the fact there are no people.  I am grateful for the photographs I took on the walk and the peace and the fact there are no people.   I am grateful for the food I am about to eat and the meditation and the fact there are no people.     And I am grateful for the fact that I am not too isolated because of the humanity of Facebook and Wiffledust and all the people.

maryanne, i'm so grateful for the ability to  laugh at myself too. i'm always sure something is wrong when i can't.  i'm so grateful i had parents who taught me how to laugh at almost everything. meredith, sometimes the ability to walk is such a super thing to feel grateful for. i'm grateful you're a new member and for your new friendship! welcome!!!

I am grateful that the kids I mentor were really into the activities we did yesterday, and that they gave me a good laugh. Kids can be so funny when you let them run with things!

i agree, helen! i am so grateful that i can teach, because no matter how you are feeling...kids just make me crack up! i had posted my last doozie when my student came and asked me what she should do if bin laden washed up on the shore when she's at the beach this summer!!!

Haha! That was funny. They always continue to astonish me with their wisdom, too. Yesterday we were discussing conflict resolution, and one of my kids said: "Anger is one of the most common emotions in conflicts, so if you know how to deal with anger, you know how to deal with conflicts positively." They're around 12 years old. Amazing!

amazing indeed! i'm so grateful for their wisdom and humor. it beats that of adults almost any day of the week!

i'm grateful on this sunday for a true day of rest....i have so much to do and yet nothing that's actually "due" today, no appointments today, no "have to attends" today in the same way this past week has been. so it's a great day to be thankful that i can just let my creative mind wander around!

bravo Lisa! I too am grateful for this beautiful day where I have no agenda other than having no agenda :-)

well i cheated a bit and am doing work, but i'm enjoying doing it without a whip at my back today! and i'm glad you are having that kind of day too, maryanne! and i'm so grateful for your artistic spirit and that you're willing to share!

Grateful for a day spent with my grandchildren. Played in the park, watched trains, looked for fish in the river, played with the dogs, ate lunch at Chicago Pizza and enjoyed every bit of the mess we made and now I am grateful for sleeping 2 year olds :-)

Grateful for a night that carried warnings but no tornadoes!  After seeing photos of the tragedy in Joplin, so grateful to have my two most special people here with me and safe!

Grateful for no severe weather also Maryrose! Today I am filled with gratitude for the mystery of life that keeps us humble children of this earth.

grateful for every life spared yesterday and last night in those monstrous tornadoes....they were not meant to spare human life!!!! and grateful for coffee milkshakes. just adding that one cuz i really AM grateful someone thought of THAT! :-)

I am grateful for music I haven't heard before, and the way it excites my heart like a little kid experiencing delights of the world for the first time.

Yes Lisa, we should all be so grateful for all life spared during the horrible storms that have swept our country ... I am no stranger to tornadoes and send all who are touched by them my prayers ... I am grateful for muffins :-)

me too, helen. i'm so grateful that i can appreciate music. i can't imagine life without it! and maryanne, YES..so grateful for life spared. AND for muffins! muffins are my favorite cake these days. i have a total relationship with them! so i'm grateful for the person who thought they'd be a good idea! LOL! and i'm so grateful today for the good work oprah has done for the last 25 years. and for some precious insights i have had today....filled with gratitude tonight!

Sitting in my kitchen. Just finished putting together a salad for a potluck and very pleased myself. Aha! I am grateful for "me". Yes, it may sound ego driven but that is not how I feel this gratitude. I am grateful to be looking out from my eyes and experiencing this beautiful world. I am grateful for my mind, my hands, my taste buds that helped me fall in love with and want to share this salad. I am grateful that I can go to a potluck on a lazy Sunday late afternoon and mingle with beautiful people ... I I mean beautiful as an internal reference. And I am grateful for Wiffledust for saving us all a space for sharing.

Hugs Lisa!

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I am also grateful for the presence to see all my foibles from the perspective of humor :-) The typos below are for everyone's inner critic's enjoyment!

Today my gratitude is for beautiful warm sunlight ...

it's a bit warm here for me to be as grateful for the warm sunlight as you are, maryanne. but i'm still grateful for any day that isn't filled with dangerous weather. i'm grateful to have some air conditioning to help me with breathing in bad quality air! i'm grateful for good people to share good work with.

It has been so cool here that I lost my gourd crop and even my cool weather veggies are refusing to grow! Still, gratitude for even having the earth to plant in

grateful for an extra hour of sleep!

grateful for meaningful things to do! and for all of you! ;-)

Today I am grateful for my two big toes. Without my big toes walking would difficult. I love to walk and I am blessed with two big toes that help me walk all the better.

let's hear it for your two big toes! now i'm grateful for mine too! :-)

Grateful for long days where I do so many things I am dragging my butt at the end of the day completely and utterly exhausted in the most fantastic way ~ I know sleep will come and carry me away into dreams with the shut of two eyes.

that's a perfect type of day, maryanne! i'm so grateful for this weather pattern we're having that's letting me get a bunch of stuff i need to do, done. crisp days and nights for sleeping....woo hoo!

I'm grateful that the weather isn't brutally hot, and that we have electric and running water. I'm grateful that my cousin moved her family successfully and is now in her new home. Things will always be difficult and there will always be bad news , but I'm grateful for good news.

i couldn't agree more, brenda. it's so hard to keep the lights on these days, and sometimes the weather is unbearable for so many. it's very important to be grateful for what we used to call "the little things". but those little things add up! and i'm grateful for you!

Grateful for being able to bring my beautiful mum home from the hospital today ... and that is good news! So I am sharing the gratitude bug for "good news"! May we all be blessed with much happiness, joy, peacefulness, and be released from suffering in our thoughts.

 

Grateful for another beautiful day in the garden. Grateful for my harvest of lettuces, broccoli, chives, snow peas, cilantro, parsley and for my beautiful flowers ... yep, today was another blessed day

filled with gratitude for a wonderful day playing with my grandson in the rain! Beautiful, warm rain that created fantastic puddles to stomp in :-) and we closed the umbrella and let the rain drops soak us to the core!

puddles are great! ;-) i'm praying for rain for the folks in texas who need it so badly. we're going to get storms today, and i'm grateful for them. i'm grateful for a season of extraordinary birds around my place even though two of them were awfully vocal this morning! :)

i'm so grateful today for the soaking rain our friends in texas are finally getting!

Me too Lisa .. I am always grateful for events that have a positive outcome. Today, my gratitude is for my dogs Mandy and Zoe whom took a wonderful three mile hike with me this afternoon. They were so good and afterwards they took me out for some Puppachinos ... I let them have the Puppachino while I enjoyed an iced vanilla latte :-)

i'm grateful for a strong sense of wonder!

Very grateful for TWO productive interviews this morning.  4 hours worth, but both very promising.

woo hoo, margaret! you go!!! ;-)

Yea Margaret! and Yea to Lisa too!  Today, I am grateful that certain people on the fringe of my life are not here :-) oh, and that I can be bad and still love myself!

Today I am grateful that I have the luxury of having an annual mammogram.