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It’s Monday and we are still here!!

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Cossy Mon 12-Oct-26 08:18:17

flowersflowers

So easy to forget the good things, when so many of us have so many challenges and scary stuff and just life to deal with on a daily basis.

So today, on Monday, I’m going to rejoice and name 5 things I’m so grateful to have today!

A lovely comfy warm bed!
A family (even though they drive me nuts)
Better health than some, though not the best.
Retirement!
Friends.

Your turn.

Let’s be positive and forget the awfulness of our world, just for a few moments and reflect on the good, the nice and the lovely thanks

Redhead56 Tue 13-Oct-26 01:02:44

My family and friends our home and neighbourhood.
My love of wildlife feeding birds hedgehogs and foxes.
Our lovely dog died recently we were heartbroken. We now have a little beauty to love just as much.

Purplepixie Tue 13-Oct-26 00:35:48

Good health
Great friends
Two fabulous sons
4 fabulous grandchildren
Sense of humour

Curlywhirly Mon 12-Oct-26 21:38:18

The closeness of my sons, their wives and grandchildren, both emotionally and geographically
My physical good health
Really good friends that are like family
Being comfortably off after having no money for years
My warm, cozy home
My love of dogs - especially labradors!
My Italian heritage

srn63 Mon 12-Oct-26 18:58:28

My lovely husband
My beautiful dogs and the ability to walk them
My health
My sons
Being warm, comfortable, well fed and safe.
The ability to look back on a good, varied and interesting life with no regrets
No real worries

Joanofarc99 Mon 12-Oct-26 16:13:47

My family and precious grandchildren
A warm comfortable house
My cats !
Candles lit and cosy nights
Wonderful weekly get together 2 days a week with close friends

CocoPops Mon 12-Oct-26 16:02:56

WhatsApp for video calls with my son who lives in the UK.
A reliable and efficient health service here in Western Canada.
A safe and secure home close to amenities.
The companionship of my happy dog.
My e-bike.

Fallingstar Mon 12-Oct-26 14:19:50

Basgetti

Our wonderful son, daughter and grandson.
My dog and cats.
A warm, secure home.
I lost my husband, my best friend and confidante, in June but he’s with me always.

So sorry 💐💐

BlessedArt Mon 12-Oct-26 14:16:06

God gave me another day on this Earth with my family, my family’s health, good neighbors, and good food! smile

Oreo Mon 12-Oct-26 13:59:10

Not counting the obvious, family and friends and health…
A warm secure home of our own
Loads of books
A delicious cheese and salad sandwich for lunch with a filter coffee, at home
A natter with Mum who popped round mid morning
Completing a crossword that DP couldn’t finish😁

Cossy Mon 12-Oct-26 13:34:08

Thanks for contributing and lovely to hear how lucky most of us are with good friends and great families x thanks

Shel1951 Mon 12-Oct-26 13:34:03

Family, pets, roof over my head, food, and the fact I am still above ground

Cossy Mon 12-Oct-26 13:33:10

crazyH

This is a good thread , but most of us will say the same thing - family, friends , health, money .
It will be more fun, interesting, if we had a ‘grumps thread’ - 😂
Anyway here goes :
Family
Fairly good health
Warm house

Start one! It’ll be enormous and quite funny, I’d imagine.

Sometimes it’s nice to remember life’s not sooooooo bad.

hulahoop Mon 12-Oct-26 13:29:52

We both woke up this morning .
We have enough money for ourselves and help if my lovely family needs help.
Our own home although I would like to move.
Thankful for reasonable health at the moment.
Don't live in a war zone.

Norah Mon 12-Oct-26 13:22:26

Lovely thread.

Church, family and dogs, pleasant warm home, health, freedom.

LemonJam Mon 12-Oct-26 12:35:52

Being at home in my own bed after surgery last week
Support of loved ones
The NHS free at the point of delivery
Feeling safe and comfortable in my own home
The exceptionally kind anaesthetist who took time to reassure and calm me when I had a wobble on arrival to theatre suite thank you.

B9exchange Mon 12-Oct-26 12:20:22

Today I am so incredibly thankful that DH's sky high BP, headache, vision distortion and struggle with words over the weekend has been confirmed by the hospital as not a second stroke. Thanking God that his headache has gone, now need to find out what is wrong with his eyesight, but have got an appointment for this evening.

Great news that our boiler has finally been fixed and we have heating and hot water!
Of course our lovely family, friends and neighbours, support from our Church, and enough money to look after ourselves.

And Gransnetters! 🙂

JackyB Mon 12-Oct-26 11:41:03

Grandma70s

My sons and grandchildren, first and foremost.

A brain that still works, more or less!

Music and books.

Peace and quiet.

Enough money. This is more important than I would like it to be.

@#£%--+

I second Grandma70s list, word for word. (Also have three perfect sons)

Especially music - the making of and listening to. Preferably with nobody coughing. And sunshine. And washing on the line.

MartavTaurus Mon 12-Oct-26 11:36:59

It's always good to look at the best in one's life to bring a smile:
My puppy
My family
My new cookery book, all 718 pages
Music in the background
Good health all round

TerriBull Mon 12-Oct-26 11:35:46

Basgetti - so sorry for your loss flowers

TerriBull Mon 12-Oct-26 11:34:27

My wonderful husband
My family and friends
My house with all its home comforts and the garden.
My fairly newly adopted town and surrounding countryside, I've come to love it a lot, having moved out of London 5 and half years ago, enjoying a less frenetic and slower pace here.
Books, I'm never without one.
Enough money and enough food, never to be taken for granted plus the choice of supermarkets where I live
Freedom

AGAA4 Mon 12-Oct-26 11:24:16

Basgetti 💐

Basgetti Mon 12-Oct-26 11:10:16

Our wonderful son, daughter and grandson.
My dog and cats.
A warm, secure home.
I lost my husband, my best friend and confidante, in June but he’s with me always.

MT62 Mon 12-Oct-26 11:05:41

Yes I always count my blessings.

Fallingstar Mon 12-Oct-26 11:02:54

Thanks for this thread Cossy, with all that is bad in the world is nice to think of what is good 💐

Fallingstar Mon 12-Oct-26 10:59:56

Yes to books, presently rereading sense and sensibility, such a joy as the nights draw in.