Happy Thoughtful Thursday! Feel honored as I am postponing cleaning my frig to write this post. You see cleaning my refrigetrator is one of my all time favorite things to do!
NOT!
There is a lesson for me in gratitude in that statement. As many of you know I sprained my wrist this week when I “gracefully” fell off my bike. I stopped to get a drink of water, was lost in my thoughts and didn’t clip out of my pedals fast enough and over I went.
Since then I have found myself becoming aware of all the little things I take for granted. So in addition to Thoughtful Thursday it is also Thankful Thursday!
Here is a short list:
- padded bike pants ( saved my behind)
- bike gloves
- my friend who was home and came and got me
- its a sprain and not broken ( phew)
- motrin 🙂
- healing quickly
- my son being home to do things like cut up that yummy watermelon and basically do the things I can’t
- the ability ( when this heals) to ( without pain) open toothpaste tubes, turn doorknobs, tramadol carry stuff, turn the ignition on my car, write…..
I could make a list a mile long with that last one. Holy Cow! Oh and it is my right wrist..and, of course, I am right handed.
So as I headed upstairs to my office to write this and avoid cleaning the frig I wondered “have I ever been grateful that I have a refrigerator to clean AND the ability to put food in it week after week?”
Of course not..I just looked at it as one those “necessary” pain in the butt things I have to do.
So today and hopefully everyday ( no promises from this very human person) I will be grateful for all those things, people and abilities that I have that I often just assume will always be there for me.
It is humbling to see how very rich I am in those people and abilities.
So go out and make it a Two for One Thoughtful AND Thankful Thursday!
I’m off to clean my frig with a smile on my face for a change!!
Cheers!

