So, now that we have all aired our feelings about $$$$ - the GRATITUDE thread

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<p>The kittens are COMING HOME!!! COMING HOME COMING HOME!!!</p>

<p>Boys will be here on the 25th of May and daughter a little later.</p>

<p>Oldest will be a little thinner and in his summer whites…little bro will get to tease and middle one is pretty banged up from spring training…</p>

<p>So I am NEEDED once again!!! Get to feed them, bandage them up, nag them and love them TONS.</p>

<p>They are COMING HOME!!! (for a while it looked as though NONE of them were coming- different overseas assignment, different internship, different summer practices, different summer programs)</p>

<p>I guess they took pity on me and all rearranged their respective schedules (grown-up words) to come home for part of the summer. I know they were all busy yakking to each other the past couple of weeks trying to surprise me, and finally my weepy, blubbering answering machine message (something along the lines, of ‘useless unneeded unwanted mommy is busy babysitting MR. Rabbit and can’t answer right now’) drove them all to distraction to finally tell me.</p>

<p>Can’t wait. I am SOOOOOOO grateful</p>

<p>Kat
all 5 home at the same TIME!!</p>

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<p>katw I am grateful for my one child, but have to admit I am envious when I hear of those with more than one. You’re so lucky and its nice to hear that you’re grateful for all five of them.</p>

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<p>Yeah, Kat! It sounds like you will have a wonderful time with all your young adults back in the nest. (Better get grocery shopping because you will have forgotten how much food 5 young adults consume. Would it be cheaper to buy the dairy cow than to buy the milk, do you think? Gallons are at $4.99 and hay is cheap… hmm) ;)</p>

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<p>I’m grateful that a “community” of strangers here at CC shares their innermost thoughts, their advice, their support, and their concern for me and for one another.</p>

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<p>I am grateful that 18 years ago today my little girl was born from under my heart into my heart.</p>

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<p>I am grateful to my mother in law’s doctor for spending 30 minutes with us today and for her patience with all of our questions.</p>

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<p>I am grateful for my cool, loving, unique, wonderful H, whom I’ve been with since we were 18, and definitely through some rough times, leading now to a better relationship than ever.</p>

<p>And for my two kids, even during times like this when one has thrown a monkeywrench into the works, because no matter what, they are both kind, caring, funny (unbelievably funny) people who make life interesting.</p>

<p>And for the natural world, which enriches me whenever I make time to be out it in. Saturday, I sat in a kayak in some back bay wetlands in South Jersey, and watched an osprey pair building their nest. The sun was warm, the flies and mosquitos weren’t out yet, and life was good.</p>

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<p>I am grateful that my health and the health of my family is good</p>

<p>I am grateful that both my sons have been college educated, the first in our family and my youngest has decided to continue on to grad school.</p>

<p>I am grateful that my DH has tolerated and loved me for the past 28 years</p>

<p>I am grateful that my firstborn will be marrying his college sweetheart in June and she is truly a gem.</p>

<p>I am truly grateful that I work for a company that has decided it will be ok for me to work from home - saving me a 80 mile daily round trip!</p>

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<p>bump.</p>

<p>Aren’t there any happy un-waitlisted people? Or someone with a small thing to share?</p>

<p>I am grateful for the break in the heat and that the heat got the pool hot enough for me.</p>

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<p>I’m grateful for being a nobody, for knowing that meaning or purpose can be found in life, and for believing that the noblest goal in life is learning love.</p>