Not again!

The day I after my credit card was found...I lost my IPhone at the shops. I had been doing some last minute late night Christmas shopping and low and behold I got home only to realise I no longer had my phone with me!!!! Oh my goodness how could I be so clumsy so have lost it...I couldn't even imagine where on when or it could have happened. To make things worse, the next day was my birthday so I had been looking forward to getting lots of lovely text messages from my friends and family. Sigh. I felt so upset. But my gratitude is for the kind, beautiful thoughtful person who handed in my mobile to centre management and so the next morning at 9:30am when my hubby called, they were like "yep, it's here just come pick it up!!!" Wow I felt soooooo relieved and of course had so much gratitude for this mystery person who made my birthday extra special without even realising it!!!! And yay...I did manage to get al my lovely birthday messages and calls after all!!!!!

Where could it be?

I lost my credit card right before Christmas and although I kept asking my hubby to cancel it he was adamant I would find it (I was convinced I had lost it somewhere in the house). After about 4 days of searching I had given up. But suddenly as we were putting the kids in the car my 3 year old yells out "What's this?" and holds up my credit card!!! Clearly it had fallen from my handbag! So my gratitude is for the fact that she found it while she was clambering around in the back seat of the car! Yippee

A slower pace...

I am so grateful that my husband has had some time off since Christmas. We've actually managed a few sleep-ins, lots of fun with the children as well as some really great progress with our sorting and packing. I feel a lot more relaxed within myself and a little less 'edgy'.

New Place

I am really grateful that my partner and I have finally found a place to live early next year after we get married. We had a number of weeks of going and doing inspections, trying to balance budgets and try to find somewhere nice and cosy but not too expensive (or totally deralict). I then found a place while he was away and had to put in an application which we got accepted for. SO grateful that he approved of the choice and liked the place (since we had to sign a lease before he could see it!). Also grateful for a weeks free rent and the fact that we will be moving in just before Christmas which is exactly what we had hoped for.

I am also grateful for finding an affordable place in a lovely area and great for entertaining. Very exciting to be unpacking all our lovely engagement presents and feeling like its almost time to start this new chapter of our lives together. Now to move!

She's Back Grat!

Another veyr gratworthy occurance - my little sis is back from a year long trip to the UK. So exciting!!

Now, I have to say I would have been able to appreciate this moment more if I had not been in a mild delerium caused by stress, exhaustion and being sick. None the less, I keenly got the the airport early in the morning, spent an hour or two waiting for her to clear customs and then shared excited chatter and coo'ed over all her vintage purchases (no matter how impractical, lol) for most of the day.

So great to have her back and to have her sharing in the excitement of the wedding, to plan Christmas and to hear all about her travels. A year a part has also helped me to see that we can still maintain a great friendship, remain involved in each others lives and feel that things have barely changed when we get back together. A good reminder that its ok for us to grow up, spread our wings and live different lives and we can still be besties from wherever we are!

OMG - Finally!

So I felt this occasion was worth searching out the sign in details and logging in to grat for (also have time to breath and do it, if only a moment)!

So my title applies to a few things - first thing is I just completed my final client session for the year. Since I have finished my course work, and finished seeing clients this means I can officially say I made it through my first year of masters yipeee! I also know that my supervisor passed me on my competancies as a therapist, I did well in all the course work and I managed to exceed the minmum 120 hours of client contact. I think I have about 160 hours or more which means I have been blessed with extra hours to increase my learning as well as having the flexability to draw an extra 35 hours out of this years if for any reason I don't meet my requirements in the second year - yay!

I feel like this has been one of the hardest and most challenging years of my life in terms of learning, growing, facing things that create anxiety and getting through them. I have had to push myself through so many barriers and just constantly challenege myself to believe in myself to get through.

I also feel sooo grateful for the progress made by so many of my clients and the great rapport we have built. I feel confident that for some of them the journey this year has been made that bit easier by having somone to talk to.

I fele so grateful and blessed to be recieving an amazing education, being able to learn, challenge myself and grow professionally and personally in profound ways. YAY!

Lighting up the night sky

I am grateful that I feel much more like myself these days - my spark is returning! I am thankful for the loving people in my life who have each in big and little ways made this process a lot quicker than I had ever imagined possible. I am also thankful for Christmas lights and those precious people who decorate their houses...yes I love you...you who embrace the Spirit of Christmas. May your sack be full this year LOL