We are so blessed! I know that things are not always easy, and sometimes I find it difficult to see the blessings through my tears of frustration and self pity; but make no mistake. We are so incredibly blessed!

I started a “List of Blessings when we were going through a terrible time!. I needed to be able to focus on the good things that were happening around me. It was my hope that there were a few good things happening, ’cause from what I could see, most of my life sucked, at that moment. Not everything, but things were definitely hard!

I was shocked! SHOCKED at how blessed we actually are.

I wrote the list down on a piece of paper tacked on the wall beside my desk. I watched that list grow EVERY SINGLE DAY! Not one day went by that we weren’t blessed with something.

I eventually got lazy and took for granted that we’d be blessed. Ho Hum! That is just so common place! I don’t need to get that excited about it. How ridiculous can I be?

I started the list up again, and this time I put in on my website, ’cause that way it’s safe, and it’s neat, and it won’t get knocked to the floor and crumpled into a ball or be drawn on by a child, or any of the other various destructive things that my children seem capable of doing in .002 seconds.

While I’ve not added to the list every day, I bet that if I really thought about it, I probably could.

Today we were given a coffee pot!

Our coffee pot had packed it in about 3 months ago. Something went with one of the seals, and we needed to pour in 12 cups of water in order to make 10 cups of coffee, and the other two cups leaked out all over my counter. It started as a small leak, and has progressed to a full on flood every time we use it. It’s been sitting on a rag on our counter, and I’ve hated it. While I probably could have used some of the grocery money to replace it, that would mean that we had less grocery money to use for groceries. It really wasn’t high on the list of things to get taken care of right away.

I quit coffee just before I went on the cleanse. I knew that I’d have to for the cleanse, and that the Natural Practitioner would probably kibosh the coffee as well. I just dealt with it on my own. I had already cut back from about 4-6 cups a day (mostly decaf) to just one in the morning, and so it really wasn’t difficult to switch from 1 cup of coffee to one cup of green tea.

The thing I miss the most is just having something warm to hang onto. I miss having a warm Tim Horton’s on a cold and miserable day as I’m running around doing errands. I miss hugging a mug of coffee in the afternoon when I’m cuddling on my couch. I miss sipping that nectar of the gods while I’m working on the computer. It’s been a hard break, but seeing as I’m feeling better physically – I’ll get over it. I drink a lot of hot water or hot water and lemon these days. Not quite the same as a nice cup of coffee with cream (or egg nog…..oh egg nog – it’s in the stores, and I’m dying to have a cup of half egg nog/half coffee – so bad for me, yet so delicious).

In all honesty, I do miss the coffee. Not sure if it’s the social aspect of it, or the addictive aspect of it, but I find it difficult even after more than a month of being off it.

Now that I’ve totally lost you all on that extremely long bunny trial, I’ll get back to my original point. The “we are blessed thing……”

Someone gave us a coffee pot today. It’s a really nice black, 12 cup coffee maker. I’m so excited. I pulled it out of the box, and stuck the old broken one on the back deck (I so need to clean up the garbage collecting waste of space that I call my back deck) and threw the rag down to the laundry room. I plugged it in, and caressed it. We had a moment! It’s very nice. We’re on good terms. It will make lovely pots of coffee for Jon and all my good coffee drinking friends. I’ll even be allowed to smell that rich aroma and savour it with every fibre of my being!

It’s funny too, ’cause I was just thinking this morning, as I gazed longingly at the coffee pot, how I was going to get a black one the next time that I bought a coffee pot so that it wouldn’t show the dirt or stains as quickly! I didn’t even have to buy one and it was what I wanted! It was given to me. How cool is that?

I am so blessed!