After spending the better part of the last week totally cranky, I decided it was time to force the happy back. I’ve been better in the last couple of days (and thank you so much to those of you who have checked in on me) and would like to take the time to note some things I’m grateful for.
Last month I started creating a gratitude list every night in my journal while taking Karen Walrond’s Chookooloonks Path Finder course. I liked ending my day that way, but then things got busy and I stopped for a bit. And then last week during the crankies, when I particularly needed to find things to be grateful about, I couldn’t. Or maybe I didn’t want to.
In any case, grateful is better than grumpy so here’s an impromptu gratitude list to serve as my reminder to focus on the good.
- My very clean and entirely clutter-free house. It was nail-breakingly painful to get it to this point, but I’m enjoying it while it lasts.
- A very good number of showings on above-mentioned very tidy house, which seems like a good sign.
- A dinner-time showing tonight while Connor was at my parents’ house, which gave my husband and I the chance to have an impromptu date night.
- Parents who willingly and happily help out.
- Finding a sale on jeans the same week I tore a very big hole in the knee of the only pair I have that still fit me.
- Discovering I still fit the same size jeans (even when not well worn and stretched out), which I also take to be a good sign.
- Chocolate ice cream (especially given #6).
- Cozy spa socks at night.
- Knowing there are people interested in our house but not feeling pressured to accept conditional offers at this point, giving me time to get over some of my sad feelings about selling this house.
- My intuition, which has never been a terribly good compass for me but seems to be doing better lately. Despite the hugeness of this change, I still think it’s the right thing to do. And I’m trusting my intuition again when it tells me a certain job, which I may or may not get offered, isn’t the right one for me. If I get the opportunity I’m going to decline and trust that doing so will keep me on the right path.
- Really amazing blog and Twitter friends. I must figure out what I did to deserve you so I can do it again in my next life.
- A couple of days where my little boy was very cuddly.
- Friends who bring me homemade cookies.
- Having a puppy for a shadow, especially one who is typically daddy’s boy.
- Being able to brainstorm an idea with my husband and plan a project around it. (Oh please, oh please let us figure out a way to make this work!)
- Winning a blog design. Whee!
