No Gripes...lets talk about good things I ADDED SOMETHING I HAD TO GET OFF MY CHEST
Laureen,
I bet you are over the Moon just waiting for your son and family to get home. The 6 weeks he will be gone again will go fast.
My niece and her children are moving back to Pittsburgh while her husband is stationed in California. I think he's supposed to be there 6 months. Right now they are in South Carolina. She would have stayed there while he was gone but they have a new baby and a 10 year old and she wanted to be closer to home with a new baby. It will be nice to have her home too. I really didn't get to know her daughter because they moved when she was only 1. She is only 2 years younger than my daughter so if they end up living nearby they can get to know each other better too.
Enjoy the holidays with your family.
Mary
I bet you are over the Moon just waiting for your son and family to get home. The 6 weeks he will be gone again will go fast.
My niece and her children are moving back to Pittsburgh while her husband is stationed in California. I think he's supposed to be there 6 months. Right now they are in South Carolina. She would have stayed there while he was gone but they have a new baby and a 10 year old and she wanted to be closer to home with a new baby. It will be nice to have her home too. I really didn't get to know her daughter because they moved when she was only 1. She is only 2 years younger than my daughter so if they end up living nearby they can get to know each other better too.
Enjoy the holidays with your family.
Mary
Mary, thanks so much for starting this thread. It is something that we all need. We need to concentrate on the positive and steer away from the negative. It is going to get us nowhere if we look at the negative. Life is full enough of the negative we can't dwell in it.
I am so grateful that I have my God in my life. Without Him I would have nothing and be nothing. I have to maintain my "attitude of gratitude" always.
I am glad for my family. Yes, sometimes they get to me and I can't stand them but such is life. I have them (and of course my OFF family is included in this) in my life and for that I am grateful. These are the people who love me even when I screw up in my life. I love my biological family since they are a part of me. Some of the blood that flows thru my veins are the same that flows thru them. I can't say that about others.
I am grateful for my sister. Sometimes that is hard for me to say. Do I wish that she was more grateful? Yes of course I do but I have to accept her for what and who she is and I do. I know that no one on this earth has the same blood that she and I do. We share our parents and so we have the same blood flowing thru our veins. A very wise woman told me that many years ago.
Another very wise woman told me that in this life you will have many aquatints but very few friends and I thought that she was nuts. I have found that thru my life she never said a truer statement than that one. I am so grateful for the friends that the Lord has put in my path. Even the ones that I do not agree with because I can use them as examples. Even is it is the example of what not to do.
I am most grateful for my Bill, my son Shawn and his wife Carol. I have to include my Misty is this since she is my sweet little furmonster. I have created her in the furmonster and we all must take responsibility for what we do in this world. Even if we don't like it. I am grateful for my Baby Caleb and my hopes and dreams for him.
I am grateful for this country that I live in. If I was in another country I may not be able to express my love of God and I may not be able to share my feelings with all of you thru this site. Only in America.
I am done for now and I will get off my soap box and Mary, I hope that you will continue this thread every Friday.
I am so grateful that I have my God in my life. Without Him I would have nothing and be nothing. I have to maintain my "attitude of gratitude" always.
I am glad for my family. Yes, sometimes they get to me and I can't stand them but such is life. I have them (and of course my OFF family is included in this) in my life and for that I am grateful. These are the people who love me even when I screw up in my life. I love my biological family since they are a part of me. Some of the blood that flows thru my veins are the same that flows thru them. I can't say that about others.
I am grateful for my sister. Sometimes that is hard for me to say. Do I wish that she was more grateful? Yes of course I do but I have to accept her for what and who she is and I do. I know that no one on this earth has the same blood that she and I do. We share our parents and so we have the same blood flowing thru our veins. A very wise woman told me that many years ago.
Another very wise woman told me that in this life you will have many aquatints but very few friends and I thought that she was nuts. I have found that thru my life she never said a truer statement than that one. I am so grateful for the friends that the Lord has put in my path. Even the ones that I do not agree with because I can use them as examples. Even is it is the example of what not to do.
I am most grateful for my Bill, my son Shawn and his wife Carol. I have to include my Misty is this since she is my sweet little furmonster. I have created her in the furmonster and we all must take responsibility for what we do in this world. Even if we don't like it. I am grateful for my Baby Caleb and my hopes and dreams for him.
I am grateful for this country that I live in. If I was in another country I may not be able to express my love of God and I may not be able to share my feelings with all of you thru this site. Only in America.
I am done for now and I will get off my soap box and Mary, I hope that you will continue this thread every Friday.
It's not what you gather, but what you scatter
that tells what kind of life you have lived.
Thank you Mary -
The good things in my life are the people I love and cherish.
* My Tom, the man who puts up with me, through thick and thin and make me feeled special every day.
* My daughters - each in their unique way make me feel loved and proud of the women they have become
* My family - from the grands to the siblings and everyone in between
* My friends - new, old and the ones I haven't yet met
* My furbabies - unconditional love and keep me busy
Thank you for starting this thread Mary. I often get caught up in the "oh no, why me?" events of life. You nudged me into thinking about the good.
Kisses
Annette
The good things in my life are the people I love and cherish.
* My Tom, the man who puts up with me, through thick and thin and make me feeled special every day.
* My daughters - each in their unique way make me feel loved and proud of the women they have become
* My family - from the grands to the siblings and everyone in between
* My friends - new, old and the ones I haven't yet met
* My furbabies - unconditional love and keep me busy
Thank you for starting this thread Mary. I often get caught up in the "oh no, why me?" events of life. You nudged me into thinking about the good.
Kisses
Annette
Annette 
I started this post for a reason. I can't keep it to myself any longer.
The original post about gripping was very disturbing to me. If you didn't read it here is the part that bothered me.
"Ok, Here are the rules, if you have a gripe about someone on the boards spill your guts, but NO NAMES are to be used."
I am so glad that we are all adults here and NO ONE wrote about each other and the things that annoy us. Do you really think we could write about someone else without naming names and not figure out who it was?? If you read OH on a fairly regular basis you get to know everyone and what is going on in their lives. Too many hurt feelings would have come from that.
Now that I got that off my chest ..........I am grateful that we can all play nice and get along.
If I get flamed for writing about this,so be it. I just had to get it off my chest.
Have a nice day........
Mary
The original post about gripping was very disturbing to me. If you didn't read it here is the part that bothered me.
"Ok, Here are the rules, if you have a gripe about someone on the boards spill your guts, but NO NAMES are to be used."
I am so glad that we are all adults here and NO ONE wrote about each other and the things that annoy us. Do you really think we could write about someone else without naming names and not figure out who it was?? If you read OH on a fairly regular basis you get to know everyone and what is going on in their lives. Too many hurt feelings would have come from that.
Now that I got that off my chest ..........I am grateful that we can all play nice and get along.
If I get flamed for writing about this,so be it. I just had to get it off my chest.Have a nice day........
Mary
Mary, I had to reply to you about what you spoke of.
I agree with what you said. One of the things about OFF that is so appealing is that we are (or should be) past the drama. I have spent most of my life with nothing but drama and I am just to old and tired to keep it in my life. There is so many new and exciting things happening in my life (part of it is just being here and finally being happy) I need and want to dwell on these and not the negative. We have to much negative in our lives with just the daily living. I want and need peace.
I agree also with the part where you said about us knowing each other so well that we would know who and what they were talking about. I love each and everyone on here. Warts and all. There is always going to be something about each other that irritate us but being adults we look past these things. Everyone has more good in them than the irritating things. Or at least I would hope that most of us would know that and see them.
Just my own opinion and that is why I will not post on that thread other than to answer someone with what I feel is a positive answer. We don't need the gripes we need the positives in our lives.
I agree with what you said. One of the things about OFF that is so appealing is that we are (or should be) past the drama. I have spent most of my life with nothing but drama and I am just to old and tired to keep it in my life. There is so many new and exciting things happening in my life (part of it is just being here and finally being happy) I need and want to dwell on these and not the negative. We have to much negative in our lives with just the daily living. I want and need peace.
I agree also with the part where you said about us knowing each other so well that we would know who and what they were talking about. I love each and everyone on here. Warts and all. There is always going to be something about each other that irritate us but being adults we look past these things. Everyone has more good in them than the irritating things. Or at least I would hope that most of us would know that and see them.
Just my own opinion and that is why I will not post on that thread other than to answer someone with what I feel is a positive answer. We don't need the gripes we need the positives in our lives.
It's not what you gather, but what you scatter
that tells what kind of life you have lived.
I posted this on my blog recently, and thought it would fit well in with the "no griping"....so I am repeating it here.
I narrowly missed having a massive heart attack this week on 12/2/08. A stress test revealed 2 blockages in my left anterior descending artery. I had a cardiac catherization and stent placed in the artery and I am feeling well now. On 12/10 I was taken from work in an ambulance with severe chest pains which turned out to be an esophageal spasm. I had 2 polyps removed from my esophagus and I am home now, free from pain and well medicated :)
When I returned home from having the stent placed, I sat for many hours in quiet gratitude.
Of all the things I could feel, Gratitude is mostly what I feel now.
I am so grateful that I got to see the sunset on Tuesday night after the stent placement and will live to see many more.
I am so grateful that my oldest son and husband were able to come to the hospital before I was wheeled into the cardiac catherization lab. I had to see them!
I am so grateful that I got to talk to my youngest son in San Diego before the procedure because he was so panicked he could not get to me.
I am grateful for all the prayers that were lifted up in my name, and grateful for coworkers who care about me.
And I am profoundly grateful that I will live to hear the sweet, sweet sounds of my grandchildren's laughter and clean up after their messes when they come here and help me bake cookies, or a cake, or whatever fun we have together.
And I am grateful that my faith in God kept me believing that he would never leave me and that he was guiding the surgeon's hand as he wove that catheter through my heart.
You know...funny thing.... when I was getting ready to do the stress test the concerns in the back of my mind were:
"will I get back to work on time...I have to get us ready for a meeting"...
and "I wonder if I can get that Phineas and Ferb sweatshirt for my grandson today before I go back to work"
...and "i think I have to get the car washed again, the laundry done, etc etc." .....yet......
When I read about the risks of the procedure I was about to have and read in black and white that I could stroke out or have a heart attack during it.........
..... I did not call work
....I did not worry about getting the Christmas present for my grandson
-.....I wasn't worried about getting the car washed again, or about the laundry, or about anything else on my list
...... what I did do was call my son in San Diego , talk to him, and cry with him, as I attempted to calm his nerves. I told him how much I loved him and how I have so loved being his mother. (I snuck into the bathroom with the cell phone to do this) :)
..and I was so VERY grateful that I could hold my oldest son's hand and express my love to him, give a kiss before I went into the procedure room . His quiet strength calmed me more than he'll ever know.
..........and I was so VERY grateful that my husband was there and I could tell him I loved him too.
I don't ever want to lose this lesson.
That when you think you could die in the next few minutes........ you won't be concerned about tasks left undone.... you will want those you love with you, in whatever way they can be.
This will be the best Christmas ever for our family. We are all still together, loving and living and so wrapped up in the miracle of the season and of the gift I was given. The gift of life!.
Linda
I narrowly missed having a massive heart attack this week on 12/2/08. A stress test revealed 2 blockages in my left anterior descending artery. I had a cardiac catherization and stent placed in the artery and I am feeling well now. On 12/10 I was taken from work in an ambulance with severe chest pains which turned out to be an esophageal spasm. I had 2 polyps removed from my esophagus and I am home now, free from pain and well medicated :)
When I returned home from having the stent placed, I sat for many hours in quiet gratitude.
Of all the things I could feel, Gratitude is mostly what I feel now.
I am so grateful that I got to see the sunset on Tuesday night after the stent placement and will live to see many more.
I am so grateful that my oldest son and husband were able to come to the hospital before I was wheeled into the cardiac catherization lab. I had to see them!
I am so grateful that I got to talk to my youngest son in San Diego before the procedure because he was so panicked he could not get to me.
I am grateful for all the prayers that were lifted up in my name, and grateful for coworkers who care about me.
And I am profoundly grateful that I will live to hear the sweet, sweet sounds of my grandchildren's laughter and clean up after their messes when they come here and help me bake cookies, or a cake, or whatever fun we have together.
And I am grateful that my faith in God kept me believing that he would never leave me and that he was guiding the surgeon's hand as he wove that catheter through my heart.
You know...funny thing.... when I was getting ready to do the stress test the concerns in the back of my mind were:
"will I get back to work on time...I have to get us ready for a meeting"...
and "I wonder if I can get that Phineas and Ferb sweatshirt for my grandson today before I go back to work"
...and "i think I have to get the car washed again, the laundry done, etc etc." .....yet......
When I read about the risks of the procedure I was about to have and read in black and white that I could stroke out or have a heart attack during it.........
..... I did not call work
....I did not worry about getting the Christmas present for my grandson
-.....I wasn't worried about getting the car washed again, or about the laundry, or about anything else on my list
...... what I did do was call my son in San Diego , talk to him, and cry with him, as I attempted to calm his nerves. I told him how much I loved him and how I have so loved being his mother. (I snuck into the bathroom with the cell phone to do this) :)
..and I was so VERY grateful that I could hold my oldest son's hand and express my love to him, give a kiss before I went into the procedure room . His quiet strength calmed me more than he'll ever know.
..........and I was so VERY grateful that my husband was there and I could tell him I loved him too.
I don't ever want to lose this lesson.
That when you think you could die in the next few minutes........ you won't be concerned about tasks left undone.... you will want those you love with you, in whatever way they can be.
This will be the best Christmas ever for our family. We are all still together, loving and living and so wrapped up in the miracle of the season and of the gift I was given. The gift of life!.
Linda
Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel
that you, too, can become great." ..... MarkTwain
Mary, how wonderful this post is......I sit here at the computer with tears streaming down my cheeks, reading what everyone has to be grateful for.....it touches my heart to be a part of this wonderful forum
where we are able to speak out. Thank you, thank you
from the bottom of my heart.
I'm a person that has a spiritual relationship with my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ......daily I thank him for the abundant blessings he give to me, tho' I certainly do not deserve them. I'm not going to name all of them, but most of all I am grateful for a savior and the assurance of going to heaven some day to be with my Lord. I'm thankful I was able at age 68 to have this life changing surgery, that now I am a healthy, happy person living life to the fullest each and every day.
I'm thankful for my only son and DIL, for all my family and friends.....the list goes on and on.
Though I may be here alone on Christmas Day, it doesn't bother me because I know "He" is with me, guarding and protecting me with His loving arms.
Life is grand........ and the love I have in my heart keeps that smile on my face for all the world to see.
In the words of Tiny Tim "God Bless us, everyone"
Pat R.
where we are able to speak out. Thank you, thank you
from the bottom of my heart.
I'm a person that has a spiritual relationship with my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ......daily I thank him for the abundant blessings he give to me, tho' I certainly do not deserve them. I'm not going to name all of them, but most of all I am grateful for a savior and the assurance of going to heaven some day to be with my Lord. I'm thankful I was able at age 68 to have this life changing surgery, that now I am a healthy, happy person living life to the fullest each and every day.
I'm thankful for my only son and DIL, for all my family and friends.....the list goes on and on.
Though I may be here alone on Christmas Day, it doesn't bother me because I know "He" is with me, guarding and protecting me with His loving arms.
Life is grand........ and the love I have in my heart keeps that smile on my face for all the world to see.
In the words of Tiny Tim "God Bless us, everyone"
Pat R.
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I am grateful today that I could sleep until 7:30 and still have time to walk on my treadmill for 30 minutes!
I am grateful we got a new Food Lion in town and it had terrific specials this week!
I am grateful that I get to go to the circus today with my grandkids and my grandson will come home with us and help decorate the Christmas tree, spend the night and go to SS and church with us tomorrow.
I love this thread!
blessings,
Jeane
I am grateful we got a new Food Lion in town and it had terrific specials this week!
I am grateful that I get to go to the circus today with my grandkids and my grandson will come home with us and help decorate the Christmas tree, spend the night and go to SS and church with us tomorrow.
I love this thread!
blessings,
Jeane
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