A good day to be grateful
I've spent the last three hours or so cleaning up after a particularly enjoyable dinner with friends. And the cleaning up has made me profoundly grateful for a number of things....

It started out that I was thankful we have water to wash the dishes (two dishwasher loads and about 5 sinkloads of pots, pans, glasses and the like) in Johannesburg, reflecting on the challenges that Capetonians have been experiencing and are likely to continue experiencing as their rainy season comes to an end and their dams are still close to empty.
I remembered a book I read as a child by a woman named Corrie ten Boom, who had been imprisoned with her mother in one of the German concentration camps during the Second World War - and her mother used to always tell her to be grateful for the little things. One day while praying she thanked God for the fleas in their barracks, and Corrie lost it. She asked her mother how she could possibly thank God for those fleas?!? Her mother replied something like, "It keeps the guards from coming in to where we sleep." That story has stuck with me ever since.
I then started to reflect how lucky we are to have good friends who didn't know each other before yesterday, but who clicked well with each other and created fun and interesting conversation.
How lucky we are to have a fireplace, which gave us warmth and a cozy place to have those interesting conversations.
And how lucky we are to have a house (or at least a mortgage which allows us to live in the house while the bank gradually squeezes every last drop it can out of us).
And for me to have such a wonderful life partner in @tim-beck, and that we were able to share our trip to France and Amsterdam with his daughter Emma. I hope to do something similar with his son Wesley one of these years.

Bonus: he makes a wicked Tim curry. That was last night's dinner - a lamb curry that just got the noses sniffling enough from the heat of the spices on a cool winter's evening.
And lucky to have found out about Steemit last year from one of Tim's colleagues who I'm now happy to count as a friend, and to have made friends with wonderful people like @mother2chicks through the platform, and now to start getting to know other amazing South African Steemians through @teamsouthafrica and our Discord channel.
I have a lot to be grateful for!

I'm very glad that cleanliness made you feel grateful. I do not like to clean up :))
Let's just say I enjoy the result, not necessarily the process! And I really don't like mess.🤣🤣
I do not like either cleanliness or mess :)) The result of cleaning is always nice: D
You are so cool, @amedeo :-)
So well put. If only we had fairies to do it all for us. But we don't 😊😊
Please check out my last article to see what fairies does for me the cleaning, :D Thanks for your compliment
Sweet post! Those fairies looked pretty human to me 😉
Thank you! :)) Yes, it is very true. She is very real :))
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nice girl!!!
great blog
Thank you, @roykie17 😊😊
Nice post
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Well, thanks for sharing.
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I agree, learn to appreciate and thank for every little things. It makes you happy as well.
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Great story!! Hope you always happy
Thank you, @qye. I wish you the same! 😊😊
Two things that i wanna say
Thank you, @rooneey - Tim looks even cuter in person 😊😎
Very nice post reminding us of how fortunate we are and the blessings we have.
Thank you, @team101 😊😊