This Week I am Grateful for… Special Dates.

This week was my first anniversary with my darling boy James.

It’s times like this that we always try and take time out to do something special, may it be a night out, a movie, a special home cooked meal, a creamy dessert.

Birthdays, anniversaries, holidays…

But it has to be special!

Like this weekend, we’re staying at a posh hotel, seeing a show at the Opera House, having dinner and lunch at restaurants we have always wanted to go to.

But it’s really those times that you really have the excuse to do anything that you want to do.

So that is why this week, I am grateful for Special Dates.

I can’t wait to blog all about this weekend!

When was the last time that you did something extravagant, or extra special just because you could?

This Week I am Grateful for… Fridays Off!

I can’t believe it has been so long since I have done one of these! Almost the beginning of March.

But it kind of dawned on me when I had to work yesterday afternoon.

I really like to have Friday’s off.

Besides Sundays, Fridays are one of those days when I just DON’T want to work. I don’t know, there is just some vibe to it, that makes me want to do things like clean and wash and tidy, and then for some reason, shop.

The last couple of Fridays, I have spent at James, and I have been lucky to have them off, and I have spent the day doing all the washing and cleaning, freeing up the weekend for other things! And then rewarding myself for a job well done, with a trip to Warringah Mall.

So, this week, I am grateful for having Friday’s off.

I have found by getting out of the way on Friday, with no one around to interrupt me, my weekends have been better than ever.

My other half does not really like the whole cleaning aspect, but I do. So it is nice to have it done, and by a person who likes to clean, no less.

What is your favourite day of the week to have off? What day is that day that you just can’t STAND to do anything?

This Week I am Grateful For… Breaks in Schedules

This week I am Grateful for…

Conflicting schedules finally fixing themselves.

Don’t you love it when you find time during a busy lifestyle, to do something for you?

To take a look around your favourite shop.

To sit down and read a good book.

To watch an episode of a great TV show.

To bake a cake.

To spend some special time with that special special someone.

I love my time off, that is why I will never become a work a holic, I like my holidays too much, that time to yourself, to do the stuff you just FEEL like doing.

One of the great moments this week was to drag a new mattress up a flight of stairs, and to assemble our brand new used bed! With a lovely iron frame.

I always like beds with frames.

All this happened because I did not have to work all through that night.

Sure, we were so tired that we collapsed and snuggled into our new bed right after, but that’s what it comes down to, the good moments.

So this week, I am grateful for the time to have them, and also for new old beds.

This Week I am Grateful for… God and His Little Miracles.

This week, I am grateful for…

God and his Little Miracles.

With so much negativity in life, you sometimes forget the little things that happen that are so good.

I am a believer in God, and I don’t mind if others that read this aren’t, its just the way I believe.

Sometimes, I pray to him asking for such huge things, and this is really to get them off of my chest, to tell someone, to ask for help, and more often than not, things do not come as I have asked.

But, I feel, because I believe in him, I am being rewarded in smaller ways.

You can not just wait around, expecting things to fall into your lap. You need to work for them, to earn them, to learn from the experience. So, I know that God is letting me accomplish my own prayers on my own.

But sometimes, there are things that you can only call a miracle.

These are his gifts to me.

Things have happened over the past couple of years that could have turned out a lot worse than they could have.

I lost my job, and had to move out of home.

I was not put out on the street, and I had relatives who would help me in any way.

My mother is sick again, and it was life threatening.

She did not die.

I finally gave up on James liking me, and decided to move on.

That night, he told me he loved me, and we are almost to our one year.

James was in a car accident, his car was totalled, he could have been seriously injured.

He walked away without a scratch.

There are so many things that can only happen by chance, and every time something like this happens, I thank God, and my lucky stars that I am so lucky.

I have just finished reading Heidi by Johanna Spyri, a classic, and this line stuck right in my head, the very last.

“If I spent, every moment, for the rest of my days, thanking God for all his goodness to us, that still would not be enough.”

For everything I have now, it makes me feel like I should be doing this. I am very grateful.