I am grateful for...

This post is the result of a BritMums blogging prompt, in which they suggested we write what we're grateful for.

So here we go: I am grateful for...

My boys, Husband and family
My friends
yadda yadda yadda... the normal stuff we are supposed to be grateful for and of course I am, but but let's cut to the chase...

In no particular order, then:

• Chocolate. The good stuff, that is.
• Diet coke
• Cool white wine on warm summer evenings
• Cool white wine
• Butter, sugar, flour, eggs, and whichever genius it was who originally thought; 'Hey! Why not mix them together and turn them into something called - oh, I don't know - cake..?'
• Cake, generally.  But not Russian cake - sorry.
• Free range meat & organic vegetables (they really do taste better - and no, we can't generally get them here)
• Silver sneakers
• Blister plasters
• Bling and the self-control not to wear too much of it.  Because of the blisters, obvs.
• Garlic
• Toothbrushes & toothpaste
• Marilyn Moore on the Kings Road in Chelsea
• Dry cleaners
• John Lewis (insert heavenly 'LAAA' here)
• Kindle
• The fact that my Kindle purchases come out of MY rather than my husband's account
• A crisply ironed shirt when I haven't had to be the one who ironed it
• Fresh fish
• The fact my sons also love fresh fish and will happily sit for a good ten minutes planning our fresh-fish safaris with me as we get excited about forthcoming trips back to the UK
• The sound of the snow under my cross country skis
• The fact that the sound of snow under my cross country skis is now a thing of the past until about next January
• Camomile tea
• Vodka and champagne.  But not together.  That part of my life is over.
• South Kensington, generally
• The expat bubble and the opportunity to step outside it in Russia

And finally;

People who read my wittering blog posts through to the end...