Passing Away

Although this is a slightly more sombre grat, I wanted to say that I am grateful for the life of my grandmother (who passed away recently) and for the fact that she is now free of the suffering she experienced in the past few years and particularly the days leading up to her passing.

I am grateful that I was there with her in those final days, as difficult as they were, and that she was not alone. I am also grateful that at the end she was resting peacefully and I was able to say goodbye and take that moment to be with her whether or not she knew I was there.

I am grateful that I decided to stay there with my mother and assist in caring for her the day before she passed away and as a result provided support during a very difficult time for her.

I am also grateful for the relationship I shared with my gradmother and the fact that I feel confident that she knew I loved her and cared for her - and was able to make it to my wedding as her final outing before she passed away.

New Job

I am grateful that my partner got a new job and has been able to transition over from his old one (which he had to leave as his time there was ended). It all happened in good timing, he is loving the new job and he increased his rate of pay! Just feeling very happy for him and blessed that he is enjoying work each day.

Honeymoon

On a related note - am grateful for an amazing time in Bali for our honeymoon. It was such a lovely time of fun and friendship to re-group after the wedding. We had a great time and really valued the opportunity to be there and relaxing.

Wedding Grat (from way back)

Soooo due to very slack gratting I have a few major things to be grateful for that go way back!

First and foremost, I am so grateful for my amazing wedding (a few months ago). It was a perfect day and everything I could have hoped for. I am so grateful and feel so blessed to have married an amazing man - surrounded by family and friends who were all wishing us the best for your future.

In addition, we had perfect weather, the whole day ran like clockwork and all the outfits came together great despite people coming from all over the country! I was able to share the day with my whole family and that was something that was really important to me.

REFRESHING

I am grateful for the rain. How wonderful to finally have a whole stack of rain to make our garden grow, our new plants and vegies thrive and not to mention the fact that we are in a drought and desperately need the water (well in Victoria anyway!) I can't recall the last time we had 3 thunderstorms in the space of a week!! Bring it on I say - I used to think Summer was my favourite season but now I'm not so sure! I am loving Autumn:)

Fly to me

Today my grat is for having my hubby back home safely. He had to travel to Sydney for work and got home very late last night...and it so lovely to have my bestie home to hang out with again!!!!! He has worked so hard for our family over these past 2 weeks and I feel really grateful that it is looong weekend and that he finally grab a little R & R that he so deserves!

Gotta hand it to you - what a bargain!!

I am grateful for a birthday voucher I was given back in Dec. I have been umming and ahhing about what to spend it on and yesterday I got the best bargain on a lovely handbag and wallet - both of which I was in desperate need of new ones as mine were literally falling apart!!!!

It is the first time I have ever spent more than $20 on either of these items and it feel so nice to have ones that look like they might actually last the distance!!!!! Gotta love quality yay.

So I am grateful for my friends generosity, my voucher, the getting a great bargain and my stylish new handbag!!!!