My mum wrote me an email about the things she is grateful for. She says she is grateful for having a perfect daughter, of course but she also said something like: “I am grateful for my year of birth (1950) because it makes it easy to calculate my age. If I had been born in 1949 or 1953, I would have been in trouble…
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I am grateful for the giggle.

I received a belated Christmas present. It was a box full of bags of chocolate. When I opened the box, it looked like a treasure chest. I couldn’t take a picture because the treasure was dispersed immediately upon opening.
I am grateful for receiving a treasure chest.

I was visiting a friend of mine who has skylights in her living room. I love skylights. I told her that if I had skylights I would have a couch under them so that I can lie on the couch and look at the beautiful blue sky through the skylights. Lying on the couch looking at the sky, would be a love-my-life moment.
I am grateful for love-my-life moments showing up.

At work, I went to the security office to get my picture taken for a new building pass. The woman in that office took a first photo and showed it to me asking if I liked it. It was pretty boring. She indicated that I was allowed to smile. So she took a second picture where I smiled but it was blurry.
So just before the third picture, I said “I love my job” the woman thought that it was so funny that she burst out laughing and she couldn’t hold the camera steady for a bit. In all that laughter, she managed to take a pretty good picture. I am grateful for laughter and for a smiling work id.

I don’t like cooking but today I got inspired by a video I had seen on Facebook. And for once, I had fun preparing food! I am grateful for having fun! Happy thank you more please!

Tonight I made my own Pad Thai sauce for the first time, based on my inspiration. It was awesome! I also enjoyed cooking on a gas stove. The flavors seem to come out different.
I am grateful for having fun creating something new to me.

This morning I was driving to the ferry terminal for the 7:00 am ferry. As I was getting close, I see a big sign saying possible sailing wait. What! I was half an hour early for the first ferry of the day, on a week day, no holiday traffic and the next ferry was 2 hours later. When I got to the booth, the lady confirmed that she could not confirm which ferry I would get as it would depend on the loading. I got in with 2 cars behind me before they stopped loading.
I am grateful I did not have to wait 2 hours for the next ferry. How did I get so lucky?
I am also grateful that it was warm enough on the ferry.

I am grateful for beautiful colors in the sky and being able to admire them.

Today, I had a great conversation with a friend of mine about what it would take to appreciate our lives more and we asked ourselves some great questions.
I also got to remind myself why I do these posts. And then I got to register for a telecall titled the potency of gratitude. How does it get any better than that?

Today, I didn’t do anything. I am grateful that I can have days of doing nothing.