Thankful Thursday

ambmama · January 2015

What are you thankful for this week?

ambmama · January 2015

I'm forcing myself to do this today because I'm feeling pretty down. I'm thankful that I have a good paying job and that I can work from home. Today is a travel day for everyone who flew out to Seattle (I didn't because H freaked out, so I got out of it) and it's really quiet, so I'm going to go get DS after his nap and just play the rest of the day. And I'm very thankful to have you ladies!

chrissynena · January 2015

I am really thankful for my mom. She just left last Sunday after staying with is for 5 weeks to help with the new babies. While I was pregnant I didn't know if her staying that long would work out. I cried when she left. I never really learned to appreciate her, or the love that she has for us, until I had DD1.

ohiodoxiemama08 · January 2015

I am thankful for heat and a warm, well insulated home. During this bitter cold snap in the midwest my heart hurts for those without homes or proper heat.

Also, I agree with @amnat84 I am thankful that this pregnancy has thus far been healthy and smooth. Hearing of the losses is heartbreaking and really makes you thankful for what you have.

martha919 · January 2015

Right now, I am thankful that we're renting from a good landlord and that he likes us. They are remodeling the bathroom this week because it was basically falling apart (still usable, but overall shitty). He let me pick out the tile. And then in a week or two they're putting in a garbage disposal and a new faucet in the kitchen! So yay.

emja0214 · January 2015

I am thankful for my support system. I have an incredible family and friends who are always there when I need them to help with the girls or just need to talk. I also have you incredible ladies who I know I can ALWAYS turn to for awesome advice! I love that we are all going through about the same things and I can get reassurance that I am doing things right! I do not know where I would be without you ladies!!!

ReeceFamily · January 2015

I am grateful for my job. I just came back from a meeting and lunch with my boss (I only see her once or twice per month since we work in different cities). We first met over a lunch interview in 2005, she offered me a job, and I've worked for her ever since. She can be tough but is always fair and she pays me well because she wants to take care of my family. Over the years we've become friends (to some degree - we don't socialize outside work much but we disclose a lot to each other, etc) and have seen each other through marriage, divorce, loss of children, having children, and now we're both on sort of a similar spiritual path. Sometimes I'm bored with my job, but in the end it allows me a ton of freedom to pursue other things in my life. I feel very lucky.

DCKate · January 2015

I will second @ohiodoxiemama08‌ about having a warm house. It is 0 degrees today with with wind chill that is....not even a real number.

On our NPR station today, they were talking to the Chicago superintendent of schools on how they make the decision to close schools. One of the major factors? A majority of kids in CPS don't have winter boots, gloves, etc and it wouldn't be safe for them to walk to school.

I just spent $30 on Frozen headphones for our trip tomorrow without batting an eye. We are very lucky.

loreeann86 · January 2015

I'm thankful my husband works hard so I can be a SAHM, that I have a healthy almost two year old and you ladies

ReeceFamily · January 2015

@DCKate - let me get this straight. CPS kids in CHICAGO of all places don't have winter clothes? That's bullshit. I live in California but I'm willing to scrap together funds to buy some midwest kids freaking gloves. What is wrong with our country?

DCKate · January 2015

ReeceFamily said:
@DCKate - let me get this straight. CPS kids in CHICAGO of all places don't have winter clothes? That's bullshit. I live in California but I'm willing to scrap together funds to buy some midwest kids freaking gloves. What is wrong with our country?

It was so heart breaking. A lot of those kids also have breakfast and lunch at school, so teachers worry that they won't eat on snow days either.

emja0214 · January 2015

DCKate said:
I will second @ohiodoxiemama08‌ about having a warm house. It is 0 degrees today with with wind chill that is....not even a real number.

On our NPR station today, they were talking to the Chicago superintendent of schools on how they make the decision to close schools. One of the major factors? A majority of kids in CPS don't have winter boots, gloves, etc and it wouldn't be safe for them to walk to school.

I just spent $30 on Frozen headphones for our trip tomorrow without batting an eye. We are very lucky.

I work in a school in the suburbs of Chicago and unfortunately I see this with a lot of my kids. Thankfully we get some donations from organizations, but many of our students do not have appropriate clothing or outerwear for this weather. Many of our students also have to walk to school because their parents work early or the family cannot afford a car.

spainy17 · January 2015

I was in a huge multi car pileup on a freezing Minnesota freeway today. A semi swung in front of me so I swerved off the road, down a large hill and into a tree. My car might be totaled and I am super sore. But driving through the wrecks in the towtruck showed me seven semis that needed towing and cars that were in far worse shape than mine.

I am so thankful. I am thankful I chose to ditch it rather than chance it hitting the semi. I am thankful that the impact wasn't as hard as it could have been and that I had my seatbelt on. And most of all I am so so thankful that DD was safe at home with daddy. It put so much in perspective. I got home and just wanted to hug them both. Oh and that my DH took the call without any anger or condescension.

chrissynena · January 2015

@spainy17‌ glad you weren't hurt! I saw lots of accidents involving semi's on the news tonight (the weather is crazy right now). MH drives an hour each way to work and it took him 2.5 to get home tonight. I pray every night he makes it home safely when the weather is terrible.

DCKate · January 2015

spainy17 said:
I was in a huge multi car pileup on a freezing Minnesota freeway today. A semi swung in front of me so I swerved off the road, down a large hill and into a tree. My car might be totaled and I am super sore. But driving through the wrecks in the towtruck showed me seven semis that needed towing and cars that were in far worse shape than mine.

I am so thankful. I am thankful I chose to ditch it rather than chance it hitting the semi. I am thankful that the impact wasn't as hard as it could have been and that I had my seatbelt on. And most of all I am so so thankful that DD was safe at home with daddy. It put so much in perspective. I got home and just wanted to hug them both. Oh and that my DH took the call without any anger or condescension.

Holy crap!! Glad you are ok.

You're up in western Wisconsin, right? The roads were awful today!!

emja0214 · January 2015

So glad you are safe and not badly injured @spainy17‌!

Jessie333 · January 2015

That is so scary @spainy17‌. I'm glad you're ok!

spainy17 · January 2015

Yeah I live in western Wisconsin, was driving to a doc appoitment and thankfully DH came home to watch DD or she would have been with me! The roads were awful and once i saw how long the chain reaction of accidents was I realized how much worse it could have been for me!

The crappy thing is that I have to work all weekend so I had to drive a rental car even farther down the same stretch of road (made it here safe) this morning and will have to do the same all weekend long! I thought I was going to die every time a semi went by, ahhh!

ambmama · January 2015

@spainy17 Oh my gosh, so happy you are ok! That's so scary! There have been a lot of big accidents like that this year with the weather (I'm in southeast PA). I hope you are less sore today!

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