Gratitude Sunday

Where has the time gone?

It feels like forever since I wrote anything on here...and my posts tell me it's been a couple months since I wrote last. 

I've had the occasional blog post written in my head, but never got on the actually blog to write it.

I could have started this year off with a recap of my 2012, or what my goals for the year are, 

but I never got around to writing those either.

Some how I find it perfect that today is when I wrote again.

There is never enough gratitude to be expressed.

and with that being said, here's some things I am grateful for at the moment:

- Changes

- My calling with the Primary kids at church

- My time with the girls I babysat, which came to an end this past Thursday

- The home I have

- My family

- Work

- Clean water

- Downsizing

- Getting to start my teaching course soon

- Almost being 22

- Feeling like I am moving in the right direction

- Fun texts to and from my brother and sister in law

- Free feeds and the company that comes with it! (It's always appreciated)

- Music for every mood

- My lil bro getting his mission call (England London South Mission!)

- Good walks and chats

- New friends

- Holidays

and so much more...

Gratitude Sunday

I've been a little slack with my Gratitude Sunday posts of late unfortunately, so I thought it about time

I do one. I've kinda missed recapping the things I'm grateful for in my life.

My SIL's sister brought up a quote which said something like

"What if you woke up tomorrow with only the things you thanked God for today?"

Pure brilliance right there if you ask me!

So here goes...I'm thankful for:

- All the extra work the past week and a bit has brought (despite my very tired body)

- Beautiful days to wake up to

- Friends moving into my ward

- My new calling in Primary with the children at church, because despite how tiring they can be, they are totally worth it :D

- a new netball season starting up again this week

- a few new goals I've set for myself

- Being on the way to saving a set amount by the end of the year

- An awesome fireside tonight

- Promptings to do things

- 2 full MnM dispenser for when I need a little chocolate hit

- My brand new overlocker machine :D and at a bargain price!!

- Having a quick catch up with the parentals before they went away

- Dinner dates with friends

- A new month of daily photo challenges to complete

- The wonderful discover of sandwich thins...they're perfect for me

- My home and safety while so many in other parts of the world have lost so much

There is always something to be grateful for! So what are you grateful for at the moment?

Gratitude Sunday

Hmmmm so it's been a few weeks! Time certainly does fly.

This week I am grateful for:

- My new calling at church working with the Primary kids

- Seeing my family this weekend

- Celebrating my little bro turning 18

- Daily photo challenge

- Extra work

- Getting to go to Sydney this coming weekend!

- Celebrating Lewie and Katrina's love...via a reception :D

- 'Date' night with Cat

- Good food

- Daylight savings...despite the 1hr less sleep I got

What are you grateful for this week?

Gratitude Sunday

Today I want to share with you about the one decision I made today that left me grateful for the rest of the day.

Last night I went to a friend's birthday party and ended up chatting to a couple of friends into the very early hours of this morning. I'm talking 4:30am people!

The birds were chirping as I drove home to go to sleep.... -_-

I eventually got to sleep around 5am and woke up at various times throughout the morning.

As it got closer and closer to the time I was REALLY needing to get up to be able to make it to church on time, I thought "I really just don't want to go today. It won't matter if I miss one week."

That thought, was very unlike me. I actually quite enjoy going to church. It is my reboot for the week.

It was at this very moment, that I thought "No, I need to go, despite how tired I am."

So I dragged myself out of bed.

*Turning point*

Once I arrived at church, I instantly felt the spirit and had one of the most amazing Sunday's I have had in a very long time. 

If I'm completely honest, I've been struggling a lot lately. But there was just so much that was said today that I needed to hear. 

I enjoyed 3 hours of spiritual bliss.

And then I stayed around to go to the CES fireside.

WELL! I have no adequate words for just how amazing it was and how I was touched. 

So add another hour to that spiritual bliss!

My favourite quote from the Elder Holland's talk was:

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I am so grateful that I was able to make the decision to get up and go to church, instead of staying in bed to sleep...I wouldn't have had as amazing a day as I did without it.

Gratitude Sunday

I've been thinking a lot about gratitude lately.

I find when I stop and think about things, I realise just how grateful I am to be where I am in my life.

It's nice to occasionally just stop and think about everything that you have right now,

in this very moment. 

Lately I have been grateful for:

- Having a fair bit of work between my jobs, which helps me to be both pay for things and save for travel and other fun things I want to do

- Time with my family. No matter how brief it is, seeing them is worth the 6 hours round trip of driving

- The sunshine; it always lifts my mood

- Friends

- New ideas and inspiration

- Music

- Feeling the spirit

- The knowledge that I can be with my family forever, especially those who have moved on already

- The innocence of children

- One very happy, smiling little girl who I got to hold today

- Seeing others happy

- The ability to let go off some pain that I've been holding on to 

- Being alive

- The possibilities that the future can hold

What are you grateful for at the moment?

Gratitude Sunday: Ode to Technology

This week I've really been thinking about how grateful I am for technology.

It not only allows me to have access to so much information at the quick press of a button,

but it allows me to be able to keep in contact with my family.

It's gotten to the point where my niece always tries to show me things with no matter what phone she has...which often ends hilariously.

Tonight she tried to use the home phone to show me that she was only one shoe.

After explaining that I couldn't see because it didn't have a camera, she huffed and took it over to my dad to try and 'fix' it. 

Alternatively she requested to see my on the 'puter'.

Enter facetime. 

I got to see my niece, little bro and dad. 

Though my niece is yet to master how to use the ipad properly so I can see her.

I swear she spends more time looking at herself then talking to me :D

I am so grateful that I live in this amazing time where we can feel connected to our loved ones all around the world.

I got to speak to various family members that are holidaying in the states over the last month and it's been fantastic.

Skype and Facetime have become my best friends in the technology world!

Here's to technology!

Gratitude Sunday

It's been a couple weeks since I did one of these...so here goes.

Over the last month I have been grateful for:

- Having my little bro come and visit...a couple of times

- Building relationships with friends

- Having sunshine to break up the dreary winter weather

- New shoes...and the deals I got buying them

- Going old school and playing different boardgames with people

- Free weekly rentals from the video store

- SLEEP! Apparently we are best friends now

- Getting to watch bits of the olympics....some seriously amazing athletes out there!

- Reading stories of people doing the right thing and standing up for 

- A random late night chat with Dad while he has been in the United States

- Any extra work I can get

- Good hair days...they seriously just make it all better

- Chocolate

- Fresh water...seriously loving it at the moment

- My new phone

- Skype...THE BEST THING EVER!

- Mexican food...apparently I'm obsessed with it at the moment

- Getting in the Aussie spirit

- Tips that help me save just that little bit extra towards Europe

and finally

- New and exciting things in general

What are you grateful for at the moment?

Gratitude Sunday

This week I'm grateful for:

- Finishing exams!!

- Being home with family

- Getting into a more normal sleeping pattern again...stress does weird things to me!

- Being at Devonport Ward and seeing heaps of good friends I haven't seen in a long time

- Sunday roast dinner

- Heaters that work

- My niece not waking up too early when I was babysitting

- An amazing talk, that was exactly what I needed to hear

- 'finishing' my 101 in 1001...though I didn't complete everything

- My relationships with my siblings

- A lesson that had me thinking about what I could be doing more

- A little time to really relax :D

Gratitude Sunday...The Mother's Day edition

Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers out there!

Not only the ones that have given birth to a child, but to people who raise other people's children too.

I love my Mama, but I also have other women in my life that have been like mother's to me.

I am so grateful to have the mother I do. She is just the right one for me. We've had our 'moments' but all the sweet moments wash those away. 

My mum is:

- the little lady (literally :P) that gives a lot of love

- the woman that gave me life...and carried me around for 9 months :D

- the one I can cry to

- the one who I can call anytime I need anything

- the woman who puts up with my father and his crazy adventures...for the past 30 years!

- the one who would try (often found her asleep on the couch) and stay up to make sure I got home ok when I worked the close shift until 2:30am

- the lady who *sometimes* lets me take pictures of her...none of which I can find right now! :'(

No matter what she will always be my mum!

I love you Victoria! :P he he he

Sorry I couldn't be home today!! Hopefully you had a wonderful day! 

Gratitude Sunday

This week I am grateful for:

- Fast breakers and firesides

- Honesty

- Seeing my sister, niece and nephew for a little bit

- My ice-cream 'date' with Maz before she left for Japan! Jealous... 

- Dinner and random hang outs with Janelle

- Laughter

- Goals for improvement

- Fun games with the YSA

- Having good work colleagues

- Water

- Seeing Lewie G...the post mission version

- Positivity

- Motivation

- Awesome lessons at church

- Time...it is both my friend and enemy

- Renewing my love for Bones...the tv show

Gratitude Sunday

This week I am grateful for:

- Chats with my Mum

- Autumn leaves and the beautiful changes

- Nerf gun attacks

- Scavenger hunts around Hobart

- Dinner with the girls coming up to YSA over the next year

- Playing cards with the brother and my SIL's family

- A bed and blanket to keep me warm on these horrible cold nights! 

- Tender mercies

- Music

- Seeing friends I haven't seen in a while 

- Spending an afternoon with a friend and her camera :D 

- Words of wisdom from others

- A new start each day to try and improve

- Goals to work towards

- Funny shows to keep me entertained

- An ok amount of tips to help pay for my stupid, extremely expensive parking fine! :'(

- A life to live

Gratitude Sunday

This week I'm grateful for:

- Getting assignments in

- Spending time with friends

- Earning good marks

- People helping me out with their talents

- A sweet thoughtful person

- Future possibilities

- Having time to myself

- Inspirational stories

- Reminders of why I want to do what I want to do

- Little children

- Photos

- Learning, both in the classroom and in life

Gratitude Sunday

Today I'm grateful for:

- Getting through the day

- General Conference

- Music and the power of words

- My family

- Good books

- Goals

- The start of letting it go and accepting changes in life, no matter how hard they are

Gratitude Sunday

This week I am grateful for:

- Time with family

- My saviour's resurrection

- Easter chocolate...it just tastes so much better! :D

- Yummy roast dinner

- A fun easter egg hunt

- Safety

- Perspective

- Not feeling alone

- The internet working again so I can post

- The most random of conversations

- Smiles

- Visiting my families ward and catching up with a bunch of people

- Attempting fishing again

- Changing seasons

- Celebrating birthdays

- Getting assignments in

- Thoughts and realisations

- Learning...about a variety of things

Gratitude Sunday

This week I am grateful for:

- Waking up from a bad dream and realising it was actually just a dream

- Cooking a meal and being able to enjoy it

- Using up bananas by making them into muffins

- Unexpected random adventures

- An awesome lesson at church today...just what I needed reminding on

- Work to help pay for everything

- Seeing old friends 

- Chatting with my family

- Seeing The Hunger Games!! LOVED IT!! :D

- Getting good grades after hard work

- Having a funny as phone conversation with my sister

- Brinner with the girls

- Getting and eating stroopwaffles from The Netherlands! SOOO good!

- Babysitting an adorable little girl

- Getting a good group for my class work in a class with no friends

- Feeling better

- Focusing on the positive and trying to let things go when needed

Gratitude Sunday

This week I'm grateful for:

- A lovely Sunday afternoon with Maz :D

- Completing a full fast...I never manage to do that!

- Life

- Starting the Harry Potter series and actually getting into it this time

- Fun nail polish colours

- Getting a voicemail from my nephew...from my dad's phone! he he

- Breakfast foods...they are my favourite

- Cool things to take pictures of

- Cute little kids to babysit...they make me clucky dang it!

- Food...always good

- Calls from my parents! Love it :D

- Fresh fruit...looks and taste's good

- Getting all assignments in on time so far!

- Working towards marking off more things on my 101 in 1001

- Getting tickets to see The Hunger Games on Thursday!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Gratitude Sunday

This week I am grateful for:

- My mama! Happy Birthday! 

- Resolving issues

- My life...and the choice to live it how I will

- Productivity...I am loving getting things done

- Getting my first assignment in on time...good start to the semester

- Helpful teachers

- Seeing friends I haven't seen in a while

- Making a new Japanese friend...she is really cute! and from where the same provence I stayed in Japan! 

- Family

- Bright nail polishes

- Random extra work!

- Giving plasma...and finding out I have good platelet levels and can donate that in the future :D

- Native animal visits

- The cutest dogs I get to see while delivering pizza

- The most gorgeous moon last night! I wish I could have taken a good enough picture! 

- Making THE PERFECT PANCAKE...not necessarily taste, but golden and perfectly round!

- A good chat with friends

- Seeing baby bumps grow...how amazing is that though??

Gratitude Sunday

This week has been a bunch of highs and lows for me. 

I didn't particularly feel like posting this today but I know it's important to still be grateful for things, 

even when you've had a crappy week. 

Let's be honest, life definitely isn't always peachy and this blog is called L!$@'s Life,

so we better keep it honest.

Therefore, This week I am grateful for:

- The little pleasure of painting my nails...I have been a biter for years. Finally not doing it :D

- Amy's Surprise Party...a lot of work went into it and it was a good night.

- Seeing my family..who were down for the party.

- Other people's talents

- Trying new things

- Pretty flowers

- Potato skins at Hog's Breath...sounds weird but SO delicious!

- Starting to resolve things...even if that ended badly

- Going to Sacrament meeting, even though it was the last thing I wanted to do today.

Gratitude Sunday Series Guest Blogger: Carisa Muller

Today we have Carisa sharing what she is grateful for in her life.

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I have so many things to be thankful for. There are more and more added to my giant list each day. I am excited to be able to guest post for Lisa for her Gratitude Sunday Series. It is so great to keep a list of what you are grateful for, that way you don’t get bogged down with the stresses of everyday life and you remember everything you were blessed with!

Below is a short list of some of the things I am so grateful for!

My amazing husband. I truly married a keeper and my best friend, he does something new to make me fall more in love with him each day!

The amazing jobs we are blessed with. It is so hard to find a job after college but both me and my husband just feel into our current jobs and we couldn’t be happier that it worked out so well for us.

Having a roof over my head! I love our little apartment, feels more like home each day!

Amazing friends, and the fun times we have with them each week!

Relaxing nights

Blogging and the friends I have made through it!!

My cute bunny J

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This week I am grateful for:

- Great talks in church

- Being able to stay somewhat cool in this heat

- Work

- The YSA activity just for the girls last night. Some good things discussed

- Learning to work with all sorts of people

- Sleep

Gratitude Sunday

This week I am grateful for:

- Creativity with food...you have to work with what you've got

- YSA that come to activities and make it fun

- Fun chats with my friends on a bed

- A Valentine's day with my Bro & SIL...it's nice to see people so happily in love

- Fireworks

- Being back looking after the girls...kids just say the funniest things

- Random text updates from my siblings

- Facing things I should have done and having it work out ok

- Almost being finished with my Project 365

- Time to think

- A few really awesome lessons at church

- A movie with my housemate...oh what fun we have

- Realisation that things are better then they seem...the power of positivity

- A break

- Life...always grateful to have a new day

What are you grateful for this week?