It’s going to be fun to see the posts on social media when you search, using the hashtag.<\/p>\n\n\n
I’ll be honest, I’ve been a pretty negative person. For me, living a life of gratitude has been born out of my misery and complaining; and then my desire to not be a negative person. Usually, I will start complaining or moaning about something; and once I catch myself….then I look for something good in the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n
For example, I hate mornings. That’s already been established. So when I came downstairs to start the morning “cat herding” this is what greeted me.<\/p>\n\n\n
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\n I could have got upset at my boys (that seems like a typical reaction to this scenario<\/em>) but I’m constantly looking to “flip the script”. <\/p>\n\n\n My first thought was, “Ice Cream for breakfast, huh?!?”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n My second thought was, “Take a picture of that, and send it to your sisters.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n Third thought was, “Well, Breakfast is taken care of.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n No upset, no anger, no disappointment. The bucket of ice cream is going to be gone sooner than I intended, but I wasn’t planning on having any so it really doesn’t affect me and when it’s gone…..it’s gone!<\/p>\n\n\n They got calories, dairy, and then they took all that sugar crazy to school. So, I’m good!<\/p>\n\n\n To wrap it up…….I’m grateful that my kids are independent enough to get their own breakfasts. I may need to talk a little more about appropriate food choices, but in the end, they ate with no complaining and I didn’t have to do anything. I got to drink my coffee that I was also SO VERY GRATEFUL FOR!<\/p>\n\n\n I’m calling it a win and moving forward with the day.<\/p>\n\n\n I’d love to hear what you’re thankful for today? Coffee? Sunshine? Family? A Job? What? Well, here we are, day 1 of this Gratitude Challenge. I’d love it if you would either leave a comment, here or on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram…..however you found yourself here. Or even just leave a post on your own profiles, using the hashtag #marchtogratitude. It’s going to be fun to see the posts on … Continue reading “Beginnings & Ice Cream”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[81,14,46,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude-challenge","category-josiah","category-judah","category-thankfulness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7709"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7726,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7709\/revisions\/7726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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