Hi guys, and to all those who are enjoying/have enjoyed a lovely Thanksgiving, I hope you’ve had a great day!
In light of this event, I thought I’d have a think about what I’m thankful for. So I’m linking up with Jessie‘s Thankful Thursday post. Seems appropriate, even though I’m not American, to get involved!
It’s easy to dash through day-to-day life without stopping and taking stock of what you’ve got. It’s often the case that is when something happens that you realise how much you really appreciate something. For instance, you’re car breaking down. It’s an absolute nightmare situation – how do you get to work? How do you get to the shop to buy food for the week? You forget how easy a car makes your life.
Definitely my family is top of my list of what I’m thankful for. I know that whatever happens they’ll be there for me. Ben consistently supports me in anything I do and I always know he’s there if something goes wrong.
The great thing about Ben is he is so selfless. He would drop anything and everything if I needed him. I can’t be thankful enough for him. He’s teaching me to be a less selfish person – it’s baby steps!
Obviously I’m also thankful for my parents and close family. I’ve been extremely lucky to have had a great childhood and a good upbringing.
Both my sister and me are polite and well-educated and this is largely due to my parents hard work with guiding us through life (sorry this sounds a bit sappy I know).
And the best mum in the world. I’ll let her off for sending me to school with a broken arm (oh did I mention she was a nurse…?) The heart the size of the country, a wardrobe the size of a small planet. Luckily we have the same size feet and the same love for Accessorize 
I’m also thankful for my health and fitness. There are so many people in the world not blessed with the ability to even walk, so I’m thankful for having a complete working body.
I’m thankful for my job as I know a lot of people are unemployed and are struggling at the moment. So I’m thankful for both Ben and my income that has allowed us to live in our little house and start building towards a lovely life.
There are so many other things I’m thankful for and I could write all day, but I’ll leave it there.
So today I will be running with the enemy, aka our current customer. No I am joking, they are lovey. It’s just I’m a little nervous as I’m just used to being in meetings with them and having arguments professional disputes with them regarding different factors. There’s quite a few of them and they invited me out this lunchtime and honestly I’m scared. I don’t know how fast they are. I don’t know if we will chat…or if it’s purely running. It was easy with the guy I was running with before as he was on my team and we laugh and joke all the time in the office. Well, I’ll keep you informed!
Speaking of my last run (Wednesday lunchtime), I got drenched and muddy. Lovely. Perfect for half-way through a working day. I did shower but I don’t wash my hair after a lunchtime run so it wasn’t the best look I’ve had for the afternoon. But it was a good run and though I grumbled and complained when he persuaded me to run (I had originally looked out the window and said “hell no” because of the weather), I’m glad I went. I didn’t take a photo of my Garmin, but we ran 3 miles in 26 mins. Not too bad.
This weekend is the start of my Pilates class on Saturday. I’m really looking forward to this as I had a couple of one-to-ones and loved it. And then Saturday night we’re off to Ben’s mums for a nice meal. Sunday I’m hoping to do a run but we’ll see how Saturday night goes I guess hehe.
What are you up to this weekend?
What are you thankful for?
What a lovely post- it is so important to think about how lucky we are sometimes as we can all get bogged down with the daily grind and get fed up. After this year I am even more thankful for my health, and of course family and friends.
Hope the run went OK
Yeah I agree, it’s always good to appreciate what you have! It’s so easy to overlook even the simple things in life.
Your pilates class sounds great! Your post was really nice– esp the tribute to your mum
I love Pilates! It’s just completely different to anything I do at the moment so it makes a nice change.
Beautiful post, Anna. Not only are you thankful for your family, but being able to see how much they mean to you & how close all of you.. I just know they feel the exact same way about you. You are such a wonderful person Anna. I’m so grateful to of come across your page when I did a little bit ago. <3
Aww thanks, Jessie 🙂 I never want to take these things for granted, life is just too precious.
I really enjoyed seeing photos of your loving family! You certainly are blessed to have been brought up by such wonderful parents, and your husband is most definitely a keeper. I’m searching for a man who can teach me to be more selfless as well. (Does he have any single friends?) ;-p
I hope your run with the “enemy” went okay yesterday, and that you’re able to relax and enjoy the weekend ahead. Morning pilates and a home-cooked dinner at Ben’s mum’s sound like a perfect way to spend a Saturday! <3
Yeah I’m very lucky to have Ben and that he puts up with all my quirks hehe. The run went great – though very muddy! And the meal was deeeelicious. Now for a Sunday of chilling!
Just a big thank you for being such a special daughter! You and Rachel make us so very, very proud and happy…