MG - The Matrix Re-wired

robsmum_2

I just wanted to say what an interesting and honest disscussion. I don't post that often but do read everyday. I have thought about this disussion all day and asked myself what I had gained from this thread?
Firstly, practical support from everyone - who ever was posting at the time. Ideas to how to move on with my life whilst getting debt free.
Secondly, inspiration and a massive dose of positivity. Inspiration of how to get sorted out as to where I am today and then positivity when I was feeling down. Reading posts from people with severe health problems, emotional problems and all the mixture of what is the matrix makes me count my blessings and be content.
I've been pondering this discussion whilst enconsed in the kitchen all day doing Christmas preparations and realised 1) that thanks to the Matrix I am more organised and in financial control than I have been for years but 2) you have all helped me move on from the last stages of grieving for my Mum( I didn't even realize I was still grieving). For this, I thank everyone of you from the bottom of my heart - for this is truely life changing and I am now able to accept that life changes and be thankful for what I have.
Sorry for the emotional response but a very sincere thank you.

ClootiesMum

robsmum - you made me cry (but not in a bad way) - I don't know if I'll ever move on from the grieving .........
I still srtuggle with Christmas

jc2703

And so it should go on. Just as before; supporting, encouraging, motivating, inspiring, sympathising and as many other 'ing's' that this collection of posters has achieved over the threads.

People should feel comfortable to chose their level of involvement and if this place is not for you at this moment in time then so be it. Maybe it will be a place of solace at some point it the future. Maybe it won't. But for others it will. I think it is paramount to highlight something said in an earlier post - people are helped/inspired/motivated just from reading. Hopefully they will come forward to post in the future and pass forward whatever insights they gained. And so it will change and evolve again.

I read everyday, I post occasionally, I offer information. support, assistance if I can - just as it has been offered to me.

Long may it continue!

groatie_queen

No wonder you feel like that, Clootie, hugs to you. I think for many people Christmas has its difficult moments, memories are revived and it's often when we miss loved ones the most.

tenmah

Too true. Christmas just isn't the same without my Mum. She loved Christmas and it sure has lost its sparkle for me.

Souk08

Hi lovelies, just read back and have to confess (honestly) that I don't post as much as I used to as I'm not very OS generally, don't craft, don't like pets and don't want to rub folk who are having a hard times nose in it as I'm okay financially for now and am planning to enjoy that after years of struggling on my own on a carp wage. I also rent Fantasia and wont be buying a place as I want to spend my spare cash on seeing my friends and family and having the life I want. I MAY live to regret that but then again I may not. BUT I've had amazing support on here, have met some fab folk who Im proud to call friends and so I'll read a bit and post a bit and XXX

tellmeitsfriday

Bleurgh....

Thank goodness I don't sleep thst badly too often...

Is it bedtime yet? x

tenmah

It is horrible waking up and almost your first thought is when can I go back to bed! I feel that I have a cold brewing, I spent Friday night with a friend who is full of a cold and she was coughing spluttering all over the place, so feel it has come my way.

If anyone has a tried and tested method for stopping it in its track I would be grateful. I have got some echinnacea (sp) tablets somewhere, but they don't taste great first thing in the morning!

Memory_Girl

Calpol - industrial sized quantities:D

I was on the phone for a gossip yesterday - when I noticed DS2 had gone really quiet .................... so wandered off to find where he had got to. Poor wee soul was in his bed, duvet over his head and electric blanket on - "I'm feeling poorly":(

Twenty minute later (after a dose of calpol) he was out cold.

DS1came home from his Gran's with a "crunchy throat" - by bedtime I had two littlies with high temperatures, coughs and feeling miserable.

So no school today methinks.

Calpol, Olbas oil burners, tissues and hot juice are on my immediate horizon.

But I have had an idea of making a wee pot of marmalade from some past it clementines (4) - thinking that with a half stick of cinnamon and some cloves I could make a Christmas "marmalade" to be spread inside the pin-wheels of sweet dough and baked for Christmas morning. Kind of like cinnamon rolls IYSWIM.

Todays food is likely to be of the eggs and soup variety for the "invalids";)

MG

Bitsy_Beans

tenmah wrote: »

It is horrible waking up and almost your first thought is when can I go back to bed! I feel that I have a cold brewing, I spent Friday night with a friend who is full of a cold and she was coughing spluttering all over the place, so feel it has come my way.

If anyone has a tried and tested method for stopping it in its track I would be grateful. I have got some echinnacea (sp) tablets somewhere, but they don't taste great first thing in the morning!

Afraid for me echinnecea (I too can't spell it ) is my tried and tested. Eat some breakfast, pinch your nose and swallow