Tell me what you’re grateful for.

[Ronni]

In the immediate moment I’m grateful for a temporary pause in the brutal heat and humidity we’ve been experiencing in the south this past couple weeks. Heat indexes 108-110 and humidity that has felt like I’m breathing underwater.

It enabled me to spend the afternoon outside, weeding and pruning and generally tidying up my small front garden and pots of flowers. It’s still hot, but bearable.

More generally, I am always and forever grateful for my family, who are there when I need them, my soft place to fall, my best friends, and my staunchest supporters.

 

[Irishdude]

Too much. Great family, wonderful wife, good friends, no material needs, good health.

 

[katlupe]

I am grateful I have a place to live, food and am able to pay all my bills.

 

[MACKTEXAS]

Since I cannot possibly add anything better than the posts that are just above mine, I'll just say thanks for the reminder to be grateful.

 

[hollydolly]

I'm grateful I have a nice home, in a nice relatively crime free area... ..I'm grateful to have been born in the UK.... ..

I'm grateful for God's special gift to me in my beautiful smart, clever , hard working daughter...

I'm grateful that I have all working limbs, and no critical or serious illnesses.. *touch wood*

I'm grateful that I ever got to 70 years old given my horrible first 20 years....of life...

I'm grateful for the good friends I've made on this forum over 12 years , and grateful to @Matrix for keeping it going all these years

 

[JBR]

A roof over my head, food to eat, clothing to wear. Family members that I like, friends. Many positive (and some mainly instructive) life experiences. The vitality to get up and accomplish things each day. The fact that I've acquired very many useful skills.

 

[Pinky]

Everything in my life, big and small .. every waking moment of every single day.

 

[squatting dog]

The wife.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

I’m grateful for having a loving husband, two adorable dogs, our house, our friends including the ones I’ve made here at Senior Forums. I’m grateful to have good physical health and good food to eat. I have a lot to be grateful for.

 

[Babs2u]

I am thankful for those who are willing to speak up against injustice.

 

[seadoug]

I am grateful for my good health, my hubby, my extended family, my friends, my parents' guidance, the fact that we are comfortable and the fact that I am now comfortable being gay.

 

[Beezer]

I'm truly grateful for my parents raising me to never want to be anybody but myself.

For all of the curveballs life has thrown at me, I've never for a second wanted to be anybody but me.

I've tried to instill this into my twin girls as the years have flown by. You're both awesome...don't ever wish you were anybody else.

 

[Ruthanne]

Right this minute I am grateful to have my utility bills and rent paid, the meatloaf I made today, and the bottle of wine chilling in the refrigerator

 

[IKE]

I've got a lot of things to be grateful / thankful for but first and foremost I'm grateful that I've got a absolutely fantastic woman that loves me.....we've been together for over 49 years and I can't imagine life without her.

 

[hollydolly]

I've got a lot of things to be grateful / thankful for but first and foremost I'm grateful that I've got a absolutely fantastic woman that loves me.....we've been together for over 49 years and I can't imagine life without her.

if I had stayed with my first husband DD's dad.. we would have been married 49 years, in one weeks' time..


Now THAT would have been a prison sentence...

 

[Disgustedman]

Quick arrival of EMTs, quick work of ER staff (2010 CHF) And total forgiveness of $42,000 bill

 

[dusty]

Grateful for all I have, all I have been, and my entire life, good bad and ugly.

 

[Fritz]

God's love and air conditioning.

 

[oscash]

. For my family having the fortitude to leave the country we were born in and taking us to an unknown country. It must have been scary
for them but they certainly made the right decision. Ever so grateful for my health and a wonderful husband who started a new life with me
after a very unhappy 1st marriage. My beautiful sons who bring joy into my heart. All the friends I have made here on S.F. I came in here into
the unknown wondering if I would fit in, you have certainly made me feel welcome.

 

[timoc]

Tell me what you’re grateful for.​

To be able to access this super forum and engage with some wonderful people.... oh, and a plentiful supply of ice cream, hot buttered toast and tea whenever I fancy them.... hmmmm, I feel a mug of tea coming on.

 

[Jazzy1]

That I am able to help people in their time of need. Also that I'm financially stable enough to rescue animals that otherwise would have been euthanized.

 

[Victor]

I'm alive and well

 

[feywon]

if I had stayed with my first husband DD's dad.. we would have been married 49 years, in one weeks' time..


Now THAT would have been a prison sentence...

So you can be grateful you had the sense to leave.

 

[Pepper]

I've been battling a depression that I can't seem to shake off. It's been hard to be grateful. I had a birthday last week. I am now 76. Sorry, folks, I'm just very down. Of course I know I love my son/grandson/dil; a roof over my head which I own; food to eat on the rare times I'm hungry. There is joy missing from my heart; I don't want to do anything, but I do in the hope that having routines will bring me back from the hole I fell into.

 

[feywon]

I've been battling a depression that I can't seem to shake off. It's been hard to be grateful. I had a birthday last week. I am now 76. Sorry, folks, I'm just very down. Of course I know I love my son/grandson/dil; a roof over my head which I own; food to eat on the rare times I'm hungry. There is joy missing from my heart; I don't want to do anything, but I do in the hope that having routines will bring me back from the hole I fell into.

Oh, Pepper. So sorry to hear that. I hope by 'routines' you mean tactics for fighting the depression. Mine have helped me when depression tried to gain a foothold. This might be a topic for the Mental Health forum. Ways to at least keep it at bay.