Quality time with job mates

It was a nice day at work. Today we had a Midsummer lunch we arranged ourselves. Everyone who worked this , came with some food for our Midsummer buffet.
Very good food, very nice company, we managed to eat together and toasted with water for the summer.

Today I am thankful for:

1. My nice workmates. It is also because I work where I work for so many years that I feel comfortable with  people I work with. For me it is 16 years.
2. I am grateful that we had made this lunch. I saw how everyone thought it was a lovely lunch and everyone enjoyed eating together.
3. I am grateful for this summer bouquet as my colleague picked in the meadow behind her house. I just love these wild flowers. And the best part was that I got to take home the flowers with me.
4. Today I am grateful that I was able to change life for the better for those who needed me at work
5. Once again, I am grateful that I make this challenge. As I wrote before .. it does me good.

See you, 

Angelzuz

After rain

I love the way the air smells after rain and how everything is wet and green after the rain. Today was just such a day.
In the morning when I went to work, I felt both how the air smells and noticed how the colors are sharper after a whole night of rain. I love it. So already at morogornen I thanked for all the beauty in my Life.

Today I am thankful for:

1. I live in this beautiful city. Historical city with lots beautiful old buildings located just outside my windows.
2. the fresh air in the morning which  I enjoyed during my walk to my job
3. the trees are so beautiful green, clean, washed of all dust after a night of rain. I enjoyed it this morning
4. after I came home from work, I listened to a nice music that filled me with peace and tranquillity ..
5. the sun just now shining through the windows of my room .... it gives me the feeling of light and good mood

See you,

Angelzuz.

I'm doing the best I can

When I started writing this  challenge I did not think it would be so difficult to find time to write a few lines during the day.

But it is not always easy.
Work, and the children, and various family needs, and little fatigue and a little .. well you know what I mean.
But it is ok for this is how life is for those most in my situation.
So I have quieted down this little demon inside me that all the time just go on about that today I have not had time write either.

I  decided that I do this for myself and do the best I can and nothing will take away the joy I experience from this challenge.
Because I really like it. It does me good.
To pause for a moment during the day and always try to see the positive in everyday life.
I like it.

So  today I am grateful for:

1. I am grateful that I can do this challenge. I feel good to do  it  and it gives me a perspective on my life which is easy just  to be overlooked;
2. I am grateful that the meeting with my friends today was a nice one. We still have fun together after so many years of friendship;
3. I am grateful that such a simple thing as my strawberry cake made so many happy and satisfied today;
4. I am grateful for my husband who washed today;
5. I can not thank enough that  all of us in our  family are healthy just now.

See you,

Angelzuz

Thankful after a bad day

How do you write the thanks challenge on a day like today?
I woke up after a bad night with a headache and didn't even go to work. I just cried ..
Stayed at home all day, took painkillers and tried to rest as best I could.
Outside it was a nice and sunny day.

Ok, so today I am grateful for:

1. I could stay home and rest. That our existence is not depending on this day income;
2. The headache went over after a few hours and I could take a nap during the afternoon;
3. All three children were home, but the day passed without trouble;
4. I have lost 0.6 kg in weight last 2 weeks;
5. I'm glad that I feel better. My problem today was of  character which seems tough but nevertheless goes over ..

The day is almost over. I know,  tomorrow will be a better day. Again.

See you,

Angelzuz

Skolavslutning

I have not written a blog post for a week now.
Sometimes other things are more important in life than write a blogpost.
Although I haven't had time to write things I was grataful for, I was aware of them. I am starting to see them in my daily Life, and I like it.

Today school ends for nearly all students in Sweden. A long  summer holiday, nearly 10 weeks, is beginning.

I have been at my daughter's "skolavslutning" today. There is  allways a special atmosphere in the air on skolavslutning.

It was a very nice song time with a short speech by rector in the school yard. He sent children  home with words: enjoy life, get freckles and mosquito bites, tanned legs, swimming in many lakes you can, because that's what it's summer for.
The sun was shining and all children were singing summer songs.

For today , I am grateful for:

1. This wonderful day. All the joy and laughter at the playground
2. I am grateful that I was able to attend this ceremony. It was hard to get away from work, but in the end I managed to attend
3. I am grateful to live in this beautiful country where all children have free access to all kind of schools. From primary school to University
4. I am very grateful have Sara and Elisabeth  in my children's lives.
   Sarah, you are a treasure, a thousand thanks for all you do for my children.
5. Today I have had a long and nice phone conversation with my mother.

I was happy for that.

See you,

Angelzuz

Studentutspringet

Tomorrow is a big day for our family. Our son will graduate. He runs out at 13.00 and from 14.00, we have open house for all our loved ones. Not big but, however.

Yesterday's post had a beautiful header ... Blessed.

And that is exactly what I felt today and will surely feel tomorrow as well.
Today I have prepared food for the feast. And I enjoyed every minute of it.

Many memories popped up in my head.
How soon this little boy became an adult ..

Today I am thankful for:

1. For my lovely son who will graduate tomorrow 
2. I am glad that my son has managed to finish this difficult school (His choice, anyway) 
3. For  we have the opportunity to organize a party for him 
4. That we can have a party in a garden and that it will be nice weather ...
   (It is agreed with the Manager up there) 
5. We all in the family are healthy and can experience  this  day

See you...

Angelzuz

Blessed

Outside the Sun is shining half the day and it rains half of the day. We have had the wettest month of May since 1962.

No matter. Only it will be sunny on Friday, when we'll have a party for my son who graduates .
I have been on leave for a few days, but today I work, so today's gratitude is job-related.

Today I am thankful for:

1. my nice walk way to work. I enjoy it every time when I go to and from work.  It goes through the finest available in my town, historic buildings and plenty of greenery.
2. I have a job at all
3. I have a  job I still enjoy
4. For all my work mates, that we can laugh together, cry together.
5. I still have the energy to make a difference in many children's lives through my job

See you...

Angelzuz

What a day it has been. Everything started when I woke up tired in the morning. I slept badly. And so much to do during the day ..

When I laid in bed, I thought that today I am not thankful for anything.

Just tired.

As I write these lines, it is evening, and I have had a good day.
So of course I have things to be thankful for.

Today I am thankful for:

1. for nature is so beautiful this time of year. It has been raining a lot and everything is so nice clean and green. A treat for the eye
2. because I live where I live. In the city and it feels as if I'm in the country. A nice lawn with old appeltrees. Old buildings around me more then 150 years old, , and I feel like a part of history
3. of our laundry room with all the equipment at our yard, where I have spent today several hours
4. for my daughter who played so well today at the Concert
5. for this day finally became a good day, I have been able to take care of my family.

Again, 

As a yesterday and day before..

 See you...

Angelzuz

Gratitude challenge

I like Oprah Winfrey.
I have learned a lot from her and I have read many of  books from her book club.

Many years ago, I was watching the Oprah Winfrey Show where she told the world  about her  gratitude diary . Every day she wrote down  five things  she was  thankful for. She said that if people did this, they would after a while  see that view of life would really change. Oprah was something on the tracks.

Most often it is the small things in life that can really brighten our lives , if only we learn to see them! I remember that I thought about it then and could not understand, how to sit down and write a few lines would make my life better in some way.

A few years older and, I hope wiser, I realize that she was right.

In my A-Z Challenge I promised myself try this and write a Gratitude  diary.

I think it's time for me to do it now

Can we  train ourselves in Gratitude?

  

We have received so much what  we take for granted, as we have sometimes lost the perspective. It may take a little thought, or a meeting with someone who does not have what  I have,  to realize how much I have to be grateful for.

So I am challenging  myself and from today I will write down five stuff every day for a month .

I want to see if it will open my eyes and my soul for something that I can not see now.

 June, 1st 2015:

1. I am grateful for my day off.
2. I am thankful,  I could  sleep as long as my body needed it, and then enjoyed the morning in bed with a cup of tea and newspaper
3. I am grateful for beautiful classical music,  I listened to it all day. It meant  I could enjoy extra my day off
4. I am thankful for my family. My husband and my three children. What would life be without them?
5. I am thankful for  sunny day we get today.  

End of A-Z challenge

I am so pleased and indeed proud of myself that I have managed too conduct and complete this funny A-Z Challenge.

A year ago I was just a spectator and promised myself , next time I would join. 
I have really enjoyed this month, although it was sometimes very difficult to think of the word I would use.
Next year I'm with and I will use Swedish words instead of English ones.

I don't think it's against the rules, right?

My daughter told me that girls from her football teams have decided to celebrating this day as the "Day Against Racism."
Everyone would draw on her arms symbol that they found  online.
I found it an incredibly good idea and have also participated.
This is me and my daughter together "Against Racism".