What are 50 things you are grateful for.

1.  I am grateful for My Children.

2.  My husband, Mark

3.  My grandchildren

4.  My extended family

5.  I am very grateful that my children love each other and there is no animosity involved between them.  As this is a rare gift.

6.  I am very grateful that my brothers and sisters all get along.  Another rare gift.  I always thought this was normal but as I grow older I realize that what our family has as a relationship that is rare and I am very grateful.

7.  I am grateful for my marriage of 34 years and counting.  I have a good husband.  It isn't that we don't have differences, the secret to our marriage is that we "work" at it.

8.  I am grateful for my health.  I know this may sound like a joke but I'm not doing that bad at 63.  Brain tumors and breast cancer can't make me believe that I don't have a pretty healthy life.

9.  I am grateful for the health of my family.  Chronic illness is very hard on the whole family.  We are relatively healthy.

10.  I am grateful for my good life in general.

11.  I am grateful that I had a good job for 40 years.

12.  I am grateful that I have a retirement that is very secure financially.

13.  I am grateful that I have friends that are there for me if I need someone to talk to or just someone to go out to lunch with.

14.  I am grateful for the house I live in

15.  I am grateful for the fact that Mark has always been very good at taking care of projects around the house and keeps our home in very good repair.

16.  I am grateful for the opportunity to build a new house in a neighborhood close to my son, Jason and my sisters.

17.  I am grateful that my grandkids, Mikayla and Kaitlyn live in this town so I could be part of their lives growing up.

18.  I am grateful for the wonderful partners my children have chosen, Julie, Graham and Jennifer.

19.  I am grateful for the fact that I was born in the United States to a good family.

20.  That I am in an area that doesn't have any natural disasters, e.g., tornadoes, mudslides, floods,.

21.  I can't think of 50 things.......I am just grateful for everything.

22.  Grateful is a funny word.