Gratitude

I've left Moli home alone for a couple of hours, a couple of times now and she seems very, very good. I broke her into it by walking in and out of doors to bedrooms and shutting them behind me or her and in and out the front door for short periods of time, she doesn't seem to notice I've actually gone anywhere, so hopefully things will continue that way. Moli weighs in at a massive ;-) 0.6 kg, today... 0.7, YAY ...I think her poodle bloodlines must be "toy", although her brother was in the pet shop with her and he was nearly double her size.
I left her home this morning and headed into the city for a bit of shopping and some lunch. The weather is glorious and I had one of those moments coming home when you suddenly realise how much you have to be grateful for. 1) I actually got a seat on the bus 2)It was near a window 3) the window opened 4) The sun was shining 5) There was a beautiful cool breeze blowing through the window as we travelled along 6) I shut my eyes and relaxed and knew when we were crossing the Yangtze river on the Yiling bridge because the air gets fresher and even cooler 7) I opened my eyes to look downstream and realised once more "I'm in China, living near the Yangtze" It looked and felt beautiful. 8) I was heading home to a wonderful little puppy who I knew was probably chilled out asleep in her basket not worried about me being out hardly at all.
I guess it's all to easy to get so used to things that you can take them for granted, but I often think how lucky I am...and today I really feel very grateful!