Do you do much wishing

[Qwerty]

Do you do much wishing these days, I enjoy my magazines always have done and when I was much younger, I used to wish for material things clothes stuff for the home ,now I wish for good health, happiness family love and that I see my g/c as often as possible well maybe not too much lol. Do you still have wishes ?

[Clover]

I'm afraid my main wish ( that OH didn't have the illness he has ) will never come true but apart from that my wishes are much the same as yours Qwerty, I do wish I could see my GC more than I do and wish they lived a lot nearer.
On a similar theme do you ever wish there were things you did or didn't do in the past?

[Oma]

I don't wish for much , like Clover I wish that B didn't have to go through what he does , and I sometimes wish I had said this or that but as you get older I think things are not as important than they were , Do I wish I did or didn't do something in the past ? I don't think so I have had a happy life yes we have had hard times like everybody else but I wouldn't change the way anything was done , apart from like everyone I think you wish you had listened and treasured your late loved ones more .
I don't wish for money as I think it makes your life easy but not always happy .

[Qwerty]

To be honest Clover I didn't have a very happy childhood and I wish I had stood up to my mother more, or moved out long before I got married but we can't turn the clocks back and would it have made any difference to Mr Clover or Mr Oma, but we still wish these things hadn't happened .
Oh and boyfriends talk about kissing a frog what was I thinking 😉

[Libra Gran]

I don't wish for material things, never have been very materialistic. Im the same as most people and just want my family to be healthy,happy and safe.Wish my DD didn't have all her health problems,would give my right arm to have her as the DD I once knew.

[Nanto2girls]

i'm much the same as you Qwerty, just wish for health and happiness, spending time with the grandaughters.

[Daisy]

Qwerty - you and I have talked about out mothers before, and I did stand up to mine quite a lot, but what I find myself wishing more and more is that I had the lovely memories so many people talk about - especially at anniversaries/birthdays of lost loved ones. I was watching DIL2 saying something to GD1 a few days ago and found myself wishing I could remember my mother saying something nice to me. But, I've made a happy life with my family and I'm lucky and blessed, so I don't wish for anything for the present or the future except health and happiness for my family - world peace would be quite nice, too!

[Plantaholic]

Wishes, well, I wish I could walk better, not have any more falls, wish I could still do my gardening as I used to. I am not materialistic so no wishes there. I wish my son would loose weight, I do worry about his health. Oh and I wish I hadn't pranged my car today.

[Grauntie Mag]

It must be the weather Plant! A stationary car bumped me this week! 😆
As for wishing, no point really, There's not much I can or want to change, and I consider myself fortunate. New health problems are a blasted nuisance but I can still function normally, and the past is done and I learned a thing or two.
There is one wish though, just to have a chat with my dear old Dad. I'll have to wait though, unless there's a hot line to Heaven.

[WeeGranny]

There's an old Scottish saying : If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets in the sea!

[Qwerty]

Qwerty - you and I have talked about out mothers before, and I did stand up to mine quite a lot, but what I find myself wishing more and more is that I had the lovely memories so many people talk about - especially at anniversaries/birthdays of lost loved ones. I was watching DIL2 saying something to GD1 a few days ago and found myself wishing I could remember my mother saying something nice to me. But, I've made a happy life with my family and I'm lucky and blessed, so I don't wish for anything for the present or the future except health and happiness for my family - world peace would be quite nice, too!

I try and tell my kids how much they mean to me, I don't remember my mum ever telling me she loved me and I was frightened of her she was a bible pusher but never went to chapel herself wish things could have been different 🙄

[Plantaholic]

That is very sad and very surprising Qwerty because you are a very caring affectionate person.

[Daisy]

I try and tell my kids how much they mean to me, I don't remember my mum ever telling me she loved me and I was frightened of her she was a bible pusher but never went to chapel herself wish things could have been different 🙄

Qwerty, I always tell my sons, big as they are, that I love them unconditionally, and how much joy they've brought me. Wouldn't it have been wonderful if our mothers had done the same. But I think her being the way she was has made me make sure I tell my loved ones how important they are to me more often. I wonder why your mum never went to chapel herself. Did she ever say?

[Qwerty]

She was brought up a chapel person the whole family went to chapel Daisy, then for whatever reason she stopped going when she got married and moved to my dads hometown, my mother sent me and my brother who was 4 yrs younger than me and I was about 10 , it was quite a walk a mile and a half to Sunday school and nobody spoke to us we were separated by our ages into different rooms I think because all the children's parents attended chapel they all knew one another and their children we were left alone really. I joined up with my brother for a hymn at the end of the session we both hated going but my mum wouldn't hear of us giving it up, why would you send your 2 children to something you as a mother didn't do quite bizarre really

[Gemini]

I wish I was slimmer and didn't worry too much about things.
Obviously like several of you, I wish my OH didn't have an incurable condition.

I don't spend a lot of time wishing things though.
I think we have all moved on in life to where we accept things more, and try to get on and make the most of how things are!