What Are You Thankful For?

Got to thinking the other day, when I started grumbling about the extreme heat here, how many things I have to be truly thankful for.

My gorgeous, kind and intelligent husband, my bright 17 year old son, a sunny day with blue skies, and the list goes on...

What are you thankful for?

Great thread!

I'm thankful for God who loves me.
I'm thankful for the people I love and care about.
I'm thankful that I have a home.
I'm thankful that I have food to eat and water to drink.
I'm thankful that I have a job so I can pay for my home and my daughter's needs.
I'm thankful that I have a car so I can get to work.
I'm thankful for my pets who bring me lots of joy and laughter.
I'm thankful that I live in a country where I have so many freedoms. (Please no political discussion).
And even though I do have health problems, I'm thankful that they are not completely disabling me.

Got to thinking the other day, when I started grumbling about the extreme heat here, how many things I have to be truly thankful for.

My gorgeous, kind and intelligent husband, my bright 17 year old son, a sunny day with blue skies, and the list goes on...

What are you thankful for?

Wow! Where do I start??? :)

I'm thankful for my American citizenship and heritage - two precious things I never had to lift a finger to acquire. Mom and Dad took care of everything. :cool:

I'm thankful for my health - knock on wood.

I'm thankful for a wonderful, loving BBW wife.

I'm thankful to see the "BBW-craze" storming across America to the point where you can't even turn on the local TV news without seeing an interview of a Mom with a tummy roll or delightfully wide hips, etc. :D

I'm thankful for wonderful online friends like Kristin, Jellybean, Athena83, Kat7, Donna, Gypsyheart, Kindanice and Foxyeyes and so many more who are kind and supportive of my passion for BBWs and try to make me feel wanted and appreciated here when the going gets rough. :)

I'm thankful for two loving parents - kind, gentle and non-abusive without sparing the rod - who always communicated their love and affection and managed to shield us from the worst things that life can throw at vulnerable children.

Just a few of the things I'm grateful for.

Thank you, Sultanswoman!!

I am a normally thankful person. I could write a long list of really important things (and people above all) I am thankful for. But there is one thing that hits me every morning, every single morning. A hot water shower. People, do not take it for granted.

Having hot showers means you live in a country with a working water and sanitary system. That you live in a place with the necessary plumbing, that you have a job to allow you to pay the bill and the heater. That you are healthy enough to be able to stand in the shower, and have your senses to locate the soap. That your upbringing has been such that you need to be clean, and that you are not depressed so being clean would not matter. Hot water shower gives me some alone time to reflect on all my other more important blessings, before heading out to a sometimes stressful day.

Everything!

Sometimes we just don't realise how lucky we are. Like taking hot showers for granted. ;)

I am grateful for... everything in my life being so wonderful. So what if I don't have a lot of cash in the bank or a high powered career job? I have my health, my wonderful YM, my dogs and cats, and I just feel happy everyday. I am also very thankful for being a women and living now and in America. I love that my tap water tastes great and my hot showers. Even my refrigerator is appreciated! I love my car too, even if she is getting close to 400k miles on the odometer. I will keep her forever. My house needs work, but I love that I can see the river from my yard. And I love my collection of old stuff...

This thread makes me feel like such a spoilt brat! I guess I am indeed very blessed. My Chinese horoscope was done many years ago. I am protected by two lucky stars and my quality of life is always increasing, albeit at a slow pace so I don't expect to ever win Powerball.

I am a normally thankful person. I could write a long list of really important things (and people above all) I am thankful for. But there is one thing that hits me every morning, every single morning. A hot water shower. People, do not take it for granted.

Having hot showers means you live in a country with a working water and sanitary system. That you live in a place with the necessary plumbing, that you have a job to allow you to pay the bill and the heater. That you are healthy enough to be able to stand in the shower, and have your senses to locate the soap. That your upbringing has been such that you need to be clean, and that you are not depressed so being clean would not matter. Hot water shower gives me some alone time to reflect on all my other more important blessings, before heading out to a sometimes stressful day.

Wow! I loved your post.

You are so right.

I have to say, lately I haven't felt too thankful for much, which sounds awful. I'm not having a good past few weeks. Just trying to keep on keeping on, as they say.

....I have to say, lately I haven't felt too thankful for much, which sounds awful. I'm not having a good past few weeks. Just trying to keep on keeping on, as they say.

Get well, li'l Pink!! :
I'm thankful we have PinkCat on Agelesslove. :D





Harrison
PinkCat Fan Club

YES! Hot showers are the best!!!:D:D

I'm thankful for so much:

-living in such a cool place (California)
-my loving pets
-my parents
-my health
-people who help animals
-having the beach so near by
-my Italian heritage
-my fun co-workers

Get well, li'l Pink!! :
I'm thankful we have PinkCat on Agelesslove. :D





Harrison
PinkCat Fan Club

Awww, Harrison! That was so sweet, thank you!! :) :bunny_4:

I'm thankful you are back around these parts, too. :D

HARRISON ROCKS!!!

:) :)

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I am thankful I have clothes on my back
I am thankfull For the roof over my head
I am thankful for the food I have in my fridge.
I am thankful I can still smile even when I am down
I am thankful for my kids
I am thankful I have someone who loves me that I can love back
I am thankful for my family
I am thankful for my friends
I am thankful I get to wake up everyday to start over again.
I am Thankful for my life I was given
I am thankful for having things I need
I am thankful that even when it gets rough I can still go forward and work hard to reach my goals
I am thankful I am who I am

I am thankful for ... every moment.

I am most thankful that at the end of each day, I can look into the mirror and be proud of me.

I'm thankful that we finally get to see Fae's pretty face. :p It brightens our community to see those you talk to for so long. :)

Thank you, Harrison.

It took me all dang day to figure this out, inserting picture challenged.:yes:

I am thankful for Agless Love, that made beeing in love with a man 13 years younger than me a LOT easier!
I am thankful that he is now my husband.
I am thankful for my great kids even to they drive med crazy on a almost daily basis.
I am thankful that even though I'm a little too overweight I'm in ferfect health.
I am thankful for the new place we live in
I am thankful for my friends
I am thankful for my job and my co-workers that always has something funny to come with every morning.

I'm thankful for so many things, but I want to focus on one thing in particular so that my post doesn't span a mile.

I'm thankful for our US Military. They give up the luxuries that we all sometimes take for granted (like those hot showers) to protect us and our wonderful country.

My little brother is a Navy man and he just recently got back from a 6 month deployment. At the end of that 6 months on their way back they picked up family and friends for an overnight cruise. I had gone on one last year for 3 days and got to know a lot of the people he works with. They had all lost about 10 to 15 pounds, because the food isn't that great and after 6 months of it, a lot of them had a hard time forcing it down. Some of them had new babies that they hadn't met yet. They all had to be sprayed in the face with OC Spray (extremely strong pepper spray) and display that they could defend themselves if they were attacked. They sleep in a space roughly the size of a coffin every single day, but are ready at a moments notice should they be needed. Their "closet" consists of a small locker and the space below their mattress is minimal to say the least. My brother did a "Marine for a day" excercise and he was excited to do it, but was also thankful for what our Marines are willing to endure to protect this country. The water they have to take showers in has an unpleasant smell to it...so they may get that hot shower, but it's not necessarily a good one. I could keep going, but I think you all get the point.

My little brother is a Navy man and he just recently got back from a 6 month deployment. At the end of that 6 months on their way back they picked up family and friends for an overnight cruise. I had gone on one last year for 3 days and got to know a lot of the people he works with. They had all lost about 10 to 15 pounds, because the food isn't that great and after 6 months of it, a lot of them had a hard time forcing it down. Some of them had new babies that they hadn't met yet. They all had to be sprayed in the face with OC Spray (extremely strong pepper spray) and display that they could defend themselves if they were attacked. They sleep in a space roughly the size of a coffin every single day, but are ready at a moments notice should they be needed. Their "closet" consists of a small locker and the space below their mattress is minimal to say the least. My brother did a "Marine for a day" excercise and he was excited to do it, but was also thankful for what our Marines are willing to endure to protect this country. The water they have to take showers in has an unpleasant smell to it...so they may get that hot shower, but it's not necessarily a good one. I could keep going, but I think you all get the point.

How right you are. Armed forces make sacrifices so we can enjoy stuff like a nice warm shower and feel secure. Hope he enjoys his R&R.

I am a normally thankful person. I could write a long list of really important things (and people above all) I am thankful for. But there is one thing that hits me every morning, every single morning. A hot water shower. People, do not take it for granted.

Having hot showers means you live in a country with a working water and sanitary system. That you live in a place with the necessary plumbing, that you have a job to allow you to pay the bill and the heater. That you are healthy enough to be able to stand in the shower, and have your senses to locate the soap. That your upbringing has been such that you need to be clean, and that you are not depressed so being clean would not matter. Hot water shower gives me some alone time to reflect on all my other more important blessings, before heading out to a sometimes stressful day.

Sheila, are you my OM in disguise!? Just kidding :) But you sound just like him...I love it! I know his intense appreciation for showers stems from his experiences (Vietnam War) when he was unable to shower for 45-60 days at a time - just out of curiosity; where does your appreciation for a shower come from? Were you ever unable to shower or are you just innately appreciative?

Either way, I found your post brilliant!


I'm thankful for the man who loves me, my cats (aka: my children), ambition, the ability to learn, teach and be creative, my dad, and my wonderful friends.

I know it's sappy, but lately I think often of how lucky I am and how thankful I am to have such a good life.

I am thankful for my partner, who I love and who loves me and who makes me happier than I've ever been.

I'm thankful for my son, the great love of my life, who surprised me by coming into the world when I was 38 and had completely ruled out motherhood. What a blessing not to have missed it, I'm so lucky.

I am thankful to have been born and raised in a country with a strong social safety net, with a national health system, free public education, a social welfare system and a national housing program. I am the first in my family to have finished high school, not because I'm smarter than my parents or grandparents, but because their lives were characterized by ill health, poverty and appalling housing conditions.

I am thankful to live in Canada, where we occasionally have loopy right wing governments - like, oh, now for instance - but where we always retain a strong sense that we should take care of one another and live in peace.

I am thankful to have survived my youth and my younger years, which were not pretty, and I'm thankful that I know who I am and why.

I am thankful to have the opportunity to get out of work I hated and start something new and to get up every day excited by what's going to happen next.

And I am enormously thankful to be at a place in my life where I am secure and happy and conscious that I'm blessed.

Vibrant: Everything has a reason, thanks for asking... :)

When I was a little girl our water heater broke down and we did not have money for years to install a new water heater at home so all my childhood showers were cold.

When I was older, during the time of Noriega, the water supply system in Panama collapsed, so we had to collect water and bathe out of a pail.

I also had experience with my beloved grandparents whose illness made the act of taking a shower impossible and needed help. To me that was the landmark of when things went downhill quickly for them.

So to me hot showers are the symbol that for now everything is OK in my life. :yes:

Vibrant: Everything has a reason, thanks for asking... :)

When I was a little girl our water heater broke down and we did not have money for years to install a new water heater at home so all my childhood showers were cold.

When I was older, during the time of Noriega, the water supply system in Panama collapsed, so we had to collect water and bathe out of a pail.

I also had experience with my beloved grandparents whose illness made the act of taking a shower impossible and needed help. To me that was the landmark of when things went downhill quickly for them.

So to me hot showers are the symbol that for now everything is OK in my life. :yes:


I know exactly what you mean Sheila. Until I was 7, we lived in one room with no hot water and an outside toilet. Then we moved into a tiny, tiny house with running hot and cold water and an indoor bathroom and I felt I was living the high life.

But when I moved to Canada and found that every day I could get up and have a hot shower, I was in heaven. For a long time, central heating and hot showers seemed to me the very pinnacle of human experience and I counted myself very lucky to have access to them. Funny isn't it, I'm totally used to it now, but still remember that so clearly.

I know exactly what you mean Sheila. Until I was 7, we lived in one room with no hot water and an outside toilet. Then we moved into a tiny, tiny house with running hot and cold water and an indoor bathroom and I felt I was living the high life.

But when I moved to Canada and found that every day I could get up and have a hot shower, I was in heaven. For a long time, central heating and hot showers seemed to me the very pinnacle of human experience and I counted myself very lucky to have access to them. Funny isn't it, I'm totally used to it now, but still remember that so clearly.
I imagine that in cold climates that must have been even harder than my experience.

I imagine that in cold climates that must have been even harder than my experience.

Well sweetie, I'm not playing Hard Times Olympics, but yeah, in the winter as a child, I remember pulling my clothes under the covers and getting dressed in bed, because it was so frigid. And washing in cold water isn't fun in the cold.

I think I was probably in the last generation of Brits to live that life, or close to it.

Vibrant: Everything has a reason, thanks for asking... :)

When I was a little girl our water heater broke down and we did not have money for years to install a new water heater at home so all my childhood showers were cold.

When I was older, during the time of Noriega, the water supply system in Panama collapsed, so we had to collect water and bathe out of a pail.

I also had experience with my beloved grandparents whose illness made the act of taking a shower impossible and needed help. To me that was the landmark of when things went downhill quickly for them.

So to me hot showers are the symbol that for now everything is OK in my life. :yes:


Ah-ha! I knew it!

I'm very glad things have worked out for you in life - sounds like rough going for while. Thanks for sharing your story!

Things I'm thankful for.

I am very thankful for God. I am very thankful that I was chosen to be me, as I could've been anyone else in this world. I'm thankful for my sound mind and sound body, health and strength. I'm thankful for my physical beauty as well as my emotional beauty.
I'm thankful for my living space, car, and being able to pay for things I need and be self sufficient. I'm thankful for my family of co-workers, and the people in my life. I'm thankful for those who hate me.

I am thankful for Jesus
I am thankful for having a loving family, especially my sister and my nephew and niece
I am thankful for having a loving wonderful man in my life who loves me, respects me and desires me
I am thankful for my health
I am thankful for my friends both online and in real life
I am thankful for having a roof over my head, clothes on my back and food to eat every day
I am thankful that my precious kitty is in still relatively good heath at the age of 15
I am thankful for living in The United States and having the freedom that I have
I am thankful that I have never been abused emotionally or sexually
I am thankful for my deep emotions and imagination
I am thankful for places like Ageless Love and knowing that I'm not the only one in an AGR
I am thankful for music so beautiful that it connects to my soul

...so many more....:)