Glass Half Empty?

One of my best friends copied me on a daily group email….called Daily Dozen. The idea is to list things that you are truly grateful for. I guess it makes you look at what is "good" in your life, because when you are doing it tough it is so easy to look at the negatives!  So I read some of the mails from other ladies in the mailing list and it went something like this….

I am grateful for:

1. The beautiful day spent with kids

2. The day on the beach with the kids

3. That my son told me he loves me

4. That I have a husband & family that love me

5. That my family are healthy

The daily dozen emails started when my glass was half empty so finding things to be grateful for was not easy but I gave it a go. Here is a copy of my list…(And just in case you think I am making it up I have included photographic evidence at the end)

Grateful that I managed to get the bum cream out of Caitlyn's hair after only 6 washes (although I had to throw her clothes away and her dolls is now sporting a hairdo that looks like something out of the movie, "Something about Mary")

Grateful that I managed to get most of the lip liner scribble out of my cream carpet

Grateful that when Lilly shouted snake it was actually just a poo she had done on the playroom carpet and not a real snake. (Shew, cause living in Australia we have some pretty impressive snakes)

Grateful that Caitlyn finger painted on the shower door, wall and towels with tooth paste which is a HELL OF A LOT easier to get off than bum cream - it could have been alot worse!

Grateful that when Caitlyn asked me to paint her nails and I said "No!" she improvised with a texter and managed to keep it to her finger nails and toe nails without getting it on my white duvet cover.

Grateful that when Caitlyn wee'd in the bed it only went on the duvet, sheets, and 3 of the pillows, and not all 4 pillows.

Grateful that I did not notice the oil marks on my clean top until after I had gotten back from the shops.

Grateful that when the kids pushed a water fountain over at the beach cottage we hired for the weekend, they only broke it, but never broke one of their feet as it landed on the floor.

Grateful that I found 3 full pairs of earrings (out of 10) after crawling on the floor on my hands and knees looking for them after the kids threw the pot that I keep them in across the room, without the lid on (of course!)

Grateful that I am not the only one that hates my job

Grateful that today is a creche day so kids can cause havoc at creche rather than at home.

Grateful for the people who invented GIN and TONIC!

I don’t email my daily dozen (infact this was the only list I ever sent out), but I do love the concept, and reading everyone else's lists.  I find that when you look at what you have to be grateful for you seem to find more and more, and then all of a sudden that half empty glass starts being half full.  (Or Craig topped up my Gin and Tonic again?)  

This post is in no way sponsored by Sudocrem, Napoleon, Colgate or Artline - however if you know of anyone that works there - tell them from me - GREAT PRODUCTS - "Sticks like shit to a blanket" (as they say in the classics)