So many times our whole day can be ruined by just one thing that ultimately doesn?t matter. Ever been stuck in a traffic jam? Been yelled at by a boss? Embarrassed publicly? My days could be ruined by stuff like that. Worse, I seemed to want to ruin someone else?s day by getting bent out of shape about it and taking it out on them ? and they had nothing to do with what made me upset!
Times change.
Either it?s that I?ve gotten older and therefore ?wiser? ? or it?s that a lot of really bad stuff has gone down. My attitude has definitely changed for the better and I?m trying not to let the little things get to me. I have a lot of really good days now. I?m not saying there?s not a bad one in there ever it?s just that there?s less of them.
Here is a question often asked: What are you grateful for today?
1. I?m grateful for my wonderful husband
2. I?m grateful for my three kids
3. I?m grateful for my lovely new home ? well, it?s a year old now anyway
4. I?m grateful for the love and acceptance of Ted?s kids and mother and the rest of his family
5. I?m grateful for my health
6. I?m grateful for the world God has made
7. I?m grateful to be in the palms of His hands
8. I?m grateful I can type fast on a computer!
9. I?m glad I have a working brain to think with and which can conjure up some good writing ideas!
10. I?m grateful for my parents ? if they hadn?t met and married, I wouldn?t be here!
11. I?m grateful for my first husband, Rich, who helped shape me into the person I am now.
12. I?m grateful for my hearing so that I can enjoy music and the sound of the surf and birds singing and so many other things
This is not to say I don?t have bad moments. Sometimes I am so annoyed or upset I don?t particularly want to remember what I?m grateful for. Luckily, those moments are short lived.
Here?s a line from Ziggy that I love: we can be sorry because rose bushes have thorns or we can be joyful that thorn bushes have roses.
Later!
Rogue's Gallery/AKA My Who's Who:
TB - my dear hubby (dh), Ted. TB stands for TeddyBear
Rich - my first dh, died in 2001
Billy, Heidi & Kristin - the kids Rich and I had together
Audrey - TB's first dh, also died in 2001
Michelle & Linda - the kids TB & Audrey had together
David -- Michelle's husband
Brandon, Ryan & Taylor - Michelle & David's kids
Kennan - Linda's bf (boyfriend)
Other Friends and Relatives from Then and Now:
Mom/Dad - my parents, they're both deaf
Pete - my younger brother, he is hearing
Trish - my niece, Pete's daughter
Grandma, my mother's mother, who taught me most of what I know about being a lady
Anne, the cousin closest in age to me, my mother's side of the family. Her siblings: Robert and Edith.
Aunt Betty/Uncle Bob, my above cousins' parents, Betty is my mother's sister and both have been profoundly deaf since birth or early babyhood
Uncle Gilbert, the youngest of my mother's 4 brothers. He was "the interpreter" between Mom, Aunt Betty and the rest of the family.
Tonie, a home health care worker who took care of my Grandma and became a close friend of the family's
There are lots of others to be added as needed :)
Posted by Cassie at October 5, 2003 01:25 AM