Day 35

EDITED TO REMOVE VIDEO, DIDN'T REALISE IT HAD SO MUCH DETAIL ON THERE!

Okay so I know I am supposed to be posting a picture each day but this video is my daily grateful for the day instead :) I am so proud of my baby boy, he is such a cutie and a skilled drummer to boot :)
Mel

Day 34

Today I am grateful for the house moving along so quickly :)
Mel

Day 33

Love my children to death but today I was sooooooooooooooooo grateful to drop them at school after the school holidays! LOL
Mel

Day 32

Today I am grateful for the family coming down to support all the kiddos at their first tee-ball games (Photos of the games are on my other blog for those that are interested) it was so much fun...besides the sunburn I got, I even learnt how to be a scorer and have been given a job for the season! LOL
Mel

Day 31

I can hear you saying "What the...?" but today I am grateful for a close up of my pillow! LOL Some days this is the one view I can't wait to see all day and today was one of them :P
Mel

Day 30

Today I am grateful for this face. i know I sound a little like a broken record but who wouldn't be grateful huh?
Mel

Day 29

Today I am grateful to my first follower! LOL Okay, so I am probably going to get killed and lose the follower for this pic but what can ya do huh?! Sorry Nayd, love you long time :P
Mel
P.S. Maybe I should have used this one instead... too late now though! hehehehe

it makes me giggle that I am in the sunglasses reflection hehehe

Day 28

 

Today I am grateful to see this smiling face. Miss M is so often the thunder and lightening in our house but when it is over she can also be the rainbow.

Mel

Day 27

Today I am grateful for my mum, weird faces and all :P
As a side note, because I never know if I am going to have a good day or a bad day pain wise until the day comes, I sometimes take more than one photo in the day and use it on other days when the pain has me laid out but I figure it all works out in the end! LOL
Mel

Day 26

Okay, so I am VERY far behind but I am hoping to catch up today because I am Uni free now so have a little more time, not much but a little! LOL

Today I am grateful for the white and black spot in the distance which just happens to be my very unsporty, book loving Mini Me daughter playing tee-ball :) I asked the kids if they wanted to play tee-ball and fully expected Jess would say no but she jumped at the chance. Turns out, Miss J is as big a boy fan as her mother and aunty (At least I know we taught her something! LOL) and has a major crush on one of the boys in the team, who it turns out is also having heart flutters over her so it means she is very enthusiastic about anything tee-ball related these days. What ever gets her out there I reckon huh ;)
Mel

Day 25 again, I hope...

It has been a while so I am trying again to see if I can get it to work! LOL

Today I am grateful for children that make me giggle even when it hurts :) Nayd came over for coffee and she brought Tilly and apparently the two little kids thought that she made a good pillow! LOL
Mel 

Day 25

I know this is supposed to be a daily grateful blog which should mean I post every day...but what this actually is a daily grateful blog from a mum of 3 with brain issues, uni, building a house and a husband who works away so what it does mean is almost every day I take a photo but only get time every couple of weeks to sit and update! LOL So, don't despair, I haven't forgotten this blog I just run out of time most days to update :)




AGHH, okay, so looks like no updates right now, the computer is not wanting to play nice :( Hopefully it will work later tonight!
Mel

Day 24

Today I am VERY grateful for Hamish losing his first tooth! We have had so many tears over the last year because "All my friends have lost LOADS of teeth and I haven't even got one wobbly one! It's not fair!"
So, he finally had a wobbly tooth and I told him to eat an apple to help it fall out but for weeks he has avoided them because it hurt too much so I finally convinced him to give it a go today and with the help of my mum we fianlly had success!
Mel

Day 23

I have lost my photo for today, it is wandering in my computer somewhere so when I find it I will add it here ;)

Today I am grateful for meds! Nothing totally takes away my pain but it is always so good to take my meds and get slight relief.
Mel

Day 22

Today I am grateful for my funny girl! Makenzie insisted she take a photo so this is my photo of the day, even though I didn't take it I figure it still counts since I am in it ;)
Mel

Day 21

Today I am grateful for bricks! In case you are wondering... Yes, there will be a million DG photos of my house being built! LOL
Mel

Day 20

Today I am grateful for my boy! Hamish has been sent to test us I am sure, he is equal parts pure afection and pur loathing, there is no in between for him and this week we have definitely been experiencing more of the bad than the good so I love these little moments when his sweet side shows :)
Mel

Day 19

Today I am grateful for Jessie, she is my angel, Miss Complient. Fingers crossed as she enters teenage-hood she continues to be a beautiful, happy girl!
Mel

Day 18

Today I am grateful for window frames! LOL One step closer to a built house :D
Mel

Day 17

Today I am grateful for my husband, I am so glad he is in my life, even when he is not physically here!
Mel

Day 16

Today I am grateful for an empty house! Doesn't happen very often with 7 of us living here so when it does it is worth a photo! LOL
Mel

Day 15

Today I am grateful for a beautiful sunset and being able to se it. When I first got sick last year, I was at serious risk of losing my sight so I am grateful every day that I didn't lose it :)
Mel
P.S. is that the right way to spell lose?! I always get my O's confused!

Day 14

Today I am grateful for a (mostly) comfy bed and a fantastic book. I go through books like they are lollies and this one was particularly good :)
Mel

Day 13

Today I am grateful for a child that makes me smile. Some days, I hurt so much from the moment I wake up to the time I go to sleep that it is hard to find things to be grateful for but Makenzie is someone I will always be grateful for she brings a little bit of sunshine with her wherever she goes :)
Mel

Day 12

Today I am grateful for a sunny day at McDonald's, with cake and coffee! Can you ask for a better Sunday?!
Mel

Day 11

Today I am grateful for my slab being down! Trust me when I tell you, by the end of the year you will be sick of my grateful for house photos but every step is even more exciting than the last! Don't mind the finger over the lense, it is for added excitement! LOL
Mel

Day 10

Today I am grateful to finally be doing something for me. I am currently doing my Bachelor of Education (Primary) and while I have come to the conclusion that it's not for me and am going to transfer to Nursing instead, I am just so glad that I have the time and means to be able to study. After 10 loooooong years of being a mum it is so amazing how much I am enjoying using my brain for good instead of evil :P
Mel

Day 9

Today I am grateful for making it to 30. Okay, so I could live without the ever increasing grey hairs and the laugh lines but I am grateful to be alive, and in good enough health to celebrate my birthday with my family.
I got spoilt rotten, Steve pretty much bought the entire Pandora shop for me, Mum and Dad gave me and Steve a trip to Bali and Nayd gave me $500 spending money! Even without the presents, I got spoilt rotten, a sleep in, Macca's for breakfast, Chinese for dinner and overall a wonderful, relaxing day!
Mel

Day 8

MMMM, coffee! After a long day of study, it is a welcome refreshment!
Mel

Day 7

Today I am grateful for my sister, who is the best friend anyone could ask for and who stands up for me when I am too tired to.
Love you Nayd!
Mel

Day 6

Today I am grateful for a quiet night at home with Steve and the kids.
Mel

Day 5

Today I am grateful for our family being together on Father's Day. It was a quiet day today as we were all recovering from last night so Hungry Jack's was on the card for dinner, it was lovely to have us all together :)

Mel

Day 4

Today I am grateful for good drinks and great friends! My sister Nayd and my favourite friend Fiona threw me a surprise birthday party/dinner, it was a great night and made me feel so special to have all my friends and family around to celebrate me turning 30 :) The good drinks were an added bonus :P

Mel

Day 3

Today I am grateful for a flat block! We went out to the block this arvo to see if anything had happened, we hadn't expected anything to happen yet as we got a phone call the other to say it was starting this weekend and being only Friday we thought it would be the same as before. So I was VERY excited to see a flat block as we drove up, I was saying "It's flat, it's flat!!!" and Steve was going "huh?!" LOL

Mel

Day 2

 

Today I am grateful for a sleep in! 

One of the good things about Steve working away is when he is home he shares the morning routine and often lets me sleep in :)

(Okay, so I took this right after I woke up and was faking sleep but the idea is still the same :P )

Mel

Day 1

Today I am grateful for a husband who knows how to vacuum :) Such a huge help when I am flat out editing photos, like today, or am feeling to sore to do it myself.

Mel

Hello world...

Hi there!
I decided to start this blog as a side project to my regular blog ( http://the-world-according-to-mel.blogspot.com/ ) because I don't want that blog to get overwhelmed by daily grateful pictures and I don't want to bore people with it who don't give a crap! LOL
Anyways, bit of background...I have a Facebook friend who has been doing Daily Grateful for the last couple of months. It is such a simple concept so I have decided that for my 31st year on this earth, I too will be grateful every day!
The basic idea is I have to take a photo of something that makes me grateful BUT it will be an iphone photo so no editing, just as it is and what I get is what I get.
There may be times I have to post a couple of days of pictures at a time but I think taking the iphone route should mean I will be a little more successful than I have been in the past with photo a day challenges! LOL
So, my birthday is actually the 9th of September but I think I will start tomorrow (the 1st of September) 'cause the 9th is so far away! LOL
Till tomorrow,
Mel