What are we grateful for in 2008 and what to we look forward to in 2009?

These are the things I am grateful for in no particular order.
I am grateful for:
Having my surgery in January 2008, I am now down 93lbs my goal was to lose 110 lbs.
My husband, son and daughter. They compliment me on my weight loss and are my biggest fans.
 
Even though my Mom passed away this past March, I am grateful that she didn't suffer. I found her still sitting on her couch. Quite a shock for me but hopefully peaceful for her.

I am grateful for my closest friends, Lora and Maureen. Maureen is not from OH. I have known her since we were 13 years old. Maureen also lost her Mom this year, 7 months to the day I lost my Mom.

I am grateful that the sun comes up everyday for me and that I am healthy.

For 2009 I hope that my family and I enjoy a happy healthy year. That my son does well on his SAT test and that his baseball season is as successful as past seasons and that a college sees him and offers him a scholarship. That my daughter enjoys playing and  making new friends on her Lacrosse team(ya gotta know my daughter to appreciate this one).
And one last thing.....I hope the Penguins win the STANLEY CUP !

I'm sure there are other things I have forgot. But you get the idea, I am hoping for a  wonderful New Year.

Mary

Haooy New Year Mary!

I am grateful for my WLS and all the weight I have lost and all the nice folks I have met through this forum.

2009 will hopefully bring me the opportunity to have plastic surgery and get my life together otherwise.

Happy New Year everyone!

I am grateful that I have had WLS and look forward to loosing more than 26 pounds, maybe this time next year it will be at least twice that much!

I am also thankful for this forum and the new friends that I have made.

Blessings,

Jeane

I am sure I will not think of everything but here goes:

I also am thankful for having my surgery January 2008 and I'm down 118 pounds I would like to lose another 21 or so. 

My husband is my biggest fan and the kids all come in close.  Of course Lexi (7) gives me the reality checks when she see's me getting dressed. lol  Gotta love those grands!

I am thankful that my son, his wife and kids are moving home the end of February and I will finally get to be a good grandma to those grands and will get to know them more than sending presents and cards in the mail.

I am thankful that I pushed and got my husband into the Dr. and they get all of his nasty skin cancer taken care of.  

I am thankful for all the wonderful friends I have met on here and the friends I haven't met yet.   

I'm sure I could go on and on but will stop for now.   I am looking forward to a great 2009.

Melissa

well lets see...what am i grateful for in 2008...well i guess it would be that rick and i kept traveling to see each other and fell deeper in love...that i divorced gary and moved to ohio to be with rick. i am happier here than anyone could possibly know. i have a man that loves me for who and what i am and i love him. i am grateful for his family taking me in until we could afford to get a place of our own and also for BJ's giving me a full time job with benefits!! i am also grateful for keeping the weight off since WLS but a few have slipped back on with all the stress and it comes and goes yet and hopefully starting monday when i do the 5 day pouch test it gets me back on track once again.

i am grateful for all the friends i have made here on OFF and to those that i have met...and yet to meet in the future!!!

i am especially grateful for having the most wonderful friend that i have in phyllis and all the good things she has done for me in the past present and future!! i have never known anyone that special before...except for rick ofcourse!! ;)

i am grateful for all the love and support i have right here on OFF from all of you...and i really truely mean it from the bottom of my heart!! after moving here and not having anyone near by to talk to you have all become a huge part of my life...my lifeline i guess you could say...when i needed to vent...you were all here...when i had happiness...you were all here for me...when i had the worst sadness of my life...you were all here to support me...thankyou all so much!!!

i could go on and on but i am now in tears over the love and support you have given to me over the years...GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!!

what i look forward to in 2009....being happy living here with rick and moving on toward a better and happier life in the future with him....

love and hugs

Hi Mary: You have been such an inspiration for me and I treasure our friendship. You have done absolutely wonderful in your journey and I know how very hard you have worked... the remaining 17 lbs will come off. I appreciate you so much and for the HOPE I wear around my neck everyday because of you....love ya my friend... Patricia Patton

Patricia,
I spoke to Lora a while back and she told me a little about your latest doctors visit. Send me an e-mail to catch me up on whats going on.
HOPE......thats what I have for you in the New Year. Hope that all your problems resolve and you get healthy.

Mary

I am grateful for this journey. 

I am grateful that I decided to look further than the Texas Message Board so I could make the friends I have met here. 

I am grateful for my wife, my kids, my grandkids.  The reason I had the surgery.

Looking forward to in 2009:

Trip to Vegas and California in May.

Baseball season starts April 6.

I am very easily satisfied.

Mary, thanks so much for starting this. It helps me at least to see the positives because when they are in black and white you see them all at once and know that they are there.

I am sure that there is going to be some that I have forgotten but I know that they are in my heart so that is the important thing.

First off, I never want to forget the act of being grateful. I have so much to be grateful for. My family and my friends. Those of you right here on OFF. You are all so important to me and to my life as I live it now. I have no idea what it would be like without my brothers and sisters here.

I am glad that Bill and I had another good year of marriage together. There was a couple of ups and downs but whose marriage doesn't have them on occasion? He is the other half of me. Without him by my side my life would be incomplete.

I am so grateful for the fact that I live in a country that is full of freedoms. Freedom to be me and that I can live and be what I want to be and not what others think I should be. To know that if I do something wrong it is going to be alright and that I just get up and shake my tail feathers and go on. To know that I have the freedom to have the faith in whatever Higher Power I choose to.

For the year 2009 I am so looking forward to becoming a grandma for the first time. Little Caleb has become my heart also. I never knew that it could and would  bring so much happiness and contentment to my life. He will never ever know the love from the bottom of me heart that I have for him. I pray that I will be best grandma to that little guy because that is all that he deserves. The best of everything. I pray that he knows only happiness and joy in his life, even though I know that it isn't always going to be that way. I want him to know that he will always have a soft place to land with me.

I am looking forward to those things that God feels is best for me. I pray that I have acceptance of the things he sends to me and I am not to fond of. I know that is going to happen. Please God, let me keep my heart and mind open and my mouth shut!

This is the year that I turn 55~the legal speed limit in the state of Indiana! That is a big accomplishment for me since about 16 years ago I was informed I would be dead in a year because of the heart problem. May I never forget those in my life that has helped me to reach this point. May God never let me forget the ups and downs with that part of my life. Those things that don't kill me make me stronger!

I will get off my soap box now but know that I am sure there is many more things buried in my mind~yes the one that makes me suffer from CRS and that when they are suppose to they will come to the front and I will recall them.