I'm grateful I found a nice group of ladies/neighbors to walk with every morning!

I'm grateful right now that despite the fact that some days are very tough for me I have the learned resilience to get up and start again every day.

This thread is ever so timely for me. I am thankful and blessed that I became a grandmother this week. After 5 years of fertility treatments my DS and DDIL welcomed a beautiful, healthy daughter into their lives. I'm also fortunate that we only live 20 minutes apart so I can be available to help if needed.

What a blessing, maire cate! And to be near by is the icing on the cake!!

I was thinking this morning how grateful I am for the warmer weather. Warm enough to leave my windows open all day and all night! And to be able to sit on the front porch again. I just spoke to the woman across the street. She is disabled and she and her brother will have to be moving probably before Fall. We were saying how wonderful the neighbors are here, how quiet it is most of the time. I know she will miss us but hopefully she won't go too far and we can visit now and then.

I am grateful that my insurance company finally paid some long overdue medical claims. It was their error to begin with and I am so glad to be done dealing with them over this snafu that has been going on since December.

Congratulations on your wonderful news, maire_cate!

Congrats maire cate!! I am grateful for Kirkwood premium vanilla ice cream. Proof that even when one becomes older, there are great new experiences in store.

Took DH to hospital today. His leg has been swollen ever since the knee replacement and they wanted to make sure he didn't have a blood clot. All is well and we can go ahead with lithotripsy on Thursday. I'm very grateful for that.

Seeing things on the news about the recurrence of measles, I am glad my parents had me vaccinated against it and other diseases. I wish that the chicken pox vaccine had been available at the time.

I am grateful that husband is home, we are heading into the home stretch of the school year! Sleep is in my future the first of June!

So very happy for you and your family, Maire-cate. Such a blessing you are nearby.

I am grateful too for a beautiful day and the opportunity to bring a new garden to life every year. Seeing the perennials come to life again and bloom, putting new plants in the ground to bear vegetables to enjoy later - it’s all very rewarding to me and I’m grateful to have a place to do it.

Having a sister growing up. But the down side, we have been estranged for 19 years. Her choice.

She died Sunday. I'm sad, but not grieving. Would have turned 83 this July.

How sad, Glenda, that she couldn't get over her problem. I guess all families have their little quirks. I know mine does and I know exactly how you feel.

Once a month I get together with one of my sisters. We have dinner and then we go to a talk at the Historical Society and we learn something interesting about one of the neighbourhoods or times in history of our city. This Thursday is the day and I always look forward to it.

@glenda - one of my other sisters has chosen not to have a relationship with me or the rest of our family for about 8 years and we have no idea why. I feel sorry for her as we are good people. The people who feel it the most are the nieces and nephews as she doesn't allow her children to have a relationship with their cousins and there are a bunch of them.

I'm grateful for the "gardener's network". A gardening friend's neighbor wanted to re-do her front beds and needed to unload two lovely boxwood shrubs, which are now residing in my front bed flanking the doorway. Looks perfect! Also grateful for DH who did most of (okay, all) the heavy lifting. I'm off to a good start.

Sibling relationships can be a mixed bag. I am super close to my twin sister. Although we don't live close, we keep close by texting, talking and Instagram.

My older sister is another story. I don't want to get into all the quirks. Both my twin and I just have to accept that we will never have a relationship with our older sister. We superficially keep in touch, but things can't be forced. No falling out per se, just totally different ways of thinking.

My brother now lives an hour from my twin sister, so, they see each other often. I keep in touch through emails and I also have a relationship with his wife.

dH does not like my brother. Different political views. I am going to have to work around this if I want to visit my brother in the near future.

I don't particularly care for my DH's sister. Again, very different viewpoints, but with her it is our differences between what is right and wrong. But, she is all my DH has left, so she is in our lives.

But.....getting back to our the theme of this thread. I am grateful that I am going to meet my cousin in the city today. I don't see her often and this was planned for a while. I am grateful that the weather is conducive to walking around the city today.

Most of all, I am grateful that I CAN walk as far and as long as I like.

I am grateful for family. Time and distance has a way of loosing track of once close family. A cousin that I grew up with, but hadn't seen or talked to in at least 20 years, contacted me a week ago and said she was making a trip for medical treatment and would pass within 20 miles of me. Could we meet somewhere she asked. Of course, I said. Had her put my address in her GPS. Called my brother and he drove the 100 miles to my house to see her too. Yesterday we had a wonderful memory filled afternoon.

I’m grateful I didn’t gain any weight after overindulgIng at Easter dinner!

Maire Cate, I am very happy for you. Wish I had grandchildren.

Glenda, that is very sad. My sister died many years ago and I wish we could have had these years together.

glenda, I have an estranged sister too, she is estranged from the whole family, also her choice. She lives 20 minutes away but if I didn't call her I would never hear from her again. I called her a week ago, she never returned my call.

I am grateful that nobody contracted the bad flu my daughter had on Easter, she was up in her bedroom the whole time but her husband and daughter were around her and I was thought they may get it for sure, so far so good.

Today, I am grateful for you Annie! Good one:

This morning a poor little nuthatch got caught between the snow
and the glass railing on our deck. He wasn't really trapped, but he'd
try to fly out and the glass would stop him and he'd quit trying and
just sit there. So I went out to help...my presence scared him enough
that he tried to fly even higher. I reached out and put my fingers under
him and lifted him up as he flew. He finally cleared the railing and
was free.

Sometimes being frightened is a good thing...sometimes our fears can save us and set us free.

Today I am grateful for having painted the ceiling over my stairwell yesterday. I have been worrying about how I would do it. My son happened to be on vacation from work this week so I asked him to come up with some kind of a scaffold for me. There is a lot of lumber in the barn and my husband did it before. Son did a great job and that task is completed.

This morning I'm grateful for my neighbors. I have really good, kind, thoughtful neighbors. I've read too many horror stories of bad neighbors to know just how wonderful mine are.

Rose, how wonderful to have a project like that done. That would have weighed on me, too... I'm glad it's done and everyone is safe.

Congrats, MC on the grand baby. How very exciting. Today I'm very grateful there are no Dr. appointments. Spent 5 hours at hospital yesterday after which we had to get squeezed in with nurse practitioner at Orthopedic office. DH's knee was very swollen as was the rest of his leg. Urologist and nurse said he must be seen right away. Glad we went. She has him on antibiotic and diuretic. He's much better today.

I'm so, so grateful to finally get that letter from the IRS approving the status of our Farmers Market as 501(c)4!!! The person setting us up in December, 2016 chose the wrong designation and it was discovered about a year in. It's taken 1-1/2 years of filling out forms and then filling out more forms to finally get the approval. It is such a weight off of me. I just want to go out and dance in the street with joy!!!