This is so sweet and reading the responses has made me smile.

This year on Subeta, I'm thankful for the many wonderful new friends I have made and for the good fortune to be able to gift many other Subetans this Luminaire season.

In real life, I'm thankful that I'm FINALLY ALMOST DONE WITH THIS SEMESTER, that I'll be graduating in spring, that my family is able to care for me when I am ill, and that I am deeply loved.

Happy Luminaire, Kura!

You've all been entered, thanks for sharing and good luck everyone! Happy Luminaire ❤️

I am grateful for my kids, and the strength that they continue to demonstrate. They are my heroes!

I'm grateful for my parents helping me finance me during my phd which I started in september!

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I am grateful for my son and my mom, my subeta 'family', and a job that I love. Also grateful that I was able to go to Disney World this fall with my son and make some special memories. He decided that being in college now didn't make him 'too old' to act like a kid. :D

I am grateful for my new puppy Navi, who is helping me live in a new house. <3 Happy Luminaire!

Sorry for the delay everyone! You've all been added to the list and thank you for sharing ❤

No worries! Thanks for the add, !

I feel grateful for my two cats Noah and T.Z. :)

I'm grateful that I saw my best friend in person at least twice so far through the previous semester of university.

You've been added to the list! Kitties are the best :3

You've been added to the list! Aw it's always awesome to be able to see your best friend, especially if you go to different colleges and can't meet up often. Glad you got to meet up and see their face!

Thanks so much for doing this Kura! :) it's so nice of you! Hope you'll have a Merry Christmas and happy new year!

I'm grateful for the opportunity to start anew in 2017.

2016 has been a bit of a rough year for me. I had been going through what I can kind of see as a quarter-life crisis and had been questioning myself about my life and where I was heading. For a long time I was pretty miserable and unhappy with the job I was doing and felt disillusioned with the environment I was in and the people I was surrounded by at work. The sinking feeling I had was that I studied all the way through uni for the industry that I was in, and got a good grad job that most people who wanted to be in this industry would have jumped at. But after about a year or so I knew that it wasn't where I saw myself for 5-10 more years to come and I knew that I was giving up on my passions if I stayed longer and I saw in the mirror each morning that my job was draining me.

I finally took the plunge and quit in August and went to America for 1.5 months doing a bit of travelling and also participating in a programme looking at sustainable development and attended some events which really opened my eyes to what's possible. But I think I got a bit fearful of the unknown. I know that I have to rebuild and rediscover my confidence to keep moving ahead in life, but ever since returning to New Zealand... I've just felt a bit lost and fatigued by stress and the weight of the year that was for me, and the uncertainties in the world that's still to come.. I've gotten so much more wearier than I thought I'd feel I'm still trying to find my feet, I guess. Right now - I'm trying to rediscover the energy and drive for life that I had before.

Sorry for the long paragraphs - I didn't realise that it would get this long when I first started writing this. Your prompts really made me think a lot and reflect on what I've been internalising for the past couple of months. And I haven't really put this down in words until now.

I am thankful for my daughter, for a job that I like and pays the bill.........in just a few days I will be going to Tennessee to take supplies for the wild fires that sweep through the Smokey a few weeks back. I am looking forward to it. I know it wont be the same place I have come to love but change is sometimes good and I am looking forward to helping them "rebuild" if only a little.

You've been entered, good luck and hope you have a wonderful holiday yourself!

I can really understand what you're going through - this past year I've been facing a similar situation of rethinking and replanning my career path, though for slightly different reasons than yours, but I can relate to that tired and scared feeling of just being unsteady and unsure of your future when you thought you would have it all figured out and well on your way at this point.

I'm glad you got the chance to travel a bit and learn a little more about opportunities that are out there! Hopefully you'll be able to use that in your pursuit of your next step, but for now just know that you WILL get to your next step whatever it may be (though I'm sure my random confidence in you doesn't help much 😆)

Sometimes when everything just feels too draining or I get overwhelmed with feeling lost, it helps me to just go on day by day, make little plans and tasks to complete - even just everyday chores or organizing lists of ideas - to feel like I have a bit of control of my life until I have the strength to tackle my big issues again.

You can do it love, thank you so much for sharing and I hope that being able to put it down in words has at least helped to lift it from your mind a bit ❤

Aw that's really sweet of you to go back and help them rebuild! Every little bit surely helps, and sometimes change is good and will make things new and better than before! All the best :) Also, you've been entered! Thanks for sharing and happy holidays :D

Congratulations to all the winners, thanks for the giveaway and happy holidays to all!