Wishing Well (not an advertising thread)

Dear users, dear authors,
if you could truly wish for—and have—anything at all this Christmas, what would you wish for?

Maybe by sharing your thoughts here, we can help make one or two of those wishes come true.

I’d love to have my driver’s license and a fancy car right now. Then I’d really like to win the lottery jackpot and use it to buy a house in Kaikoura, New Zealand, and move there.
In Kaikoura, I’d open a wool shop selling New Zealand wool.
Ah, yes…
It’s nice to daydream like this sometimes. ;-)

Right now, I would wish to have at least enough money so that I could pursue my handicrafts in peace and without financial worries.
I’d probably also like to open a small crochet and knitting café and do crafts there with lots of nice people and be happy. 

Spend lots of time with my family. Just do only things that make me happy and are good for me. You don’t have to be rich for that, but you would need a certain cushion.

I’d wish for eternal happiness and good health for my family, and that’s about it. I don’t really have any Christmas wishes either, except for “well-behaved children” — but I wish for that every year....;)

Good health for my loved ones and me... that’s all I could ask for!

@ Nadeleule: That reminds me of a joke:
Mom: “This year, I want two well-behaved kids for Christmas.”
Child: “Great, then there’ll be four of us soon!” ;)

If I could wish for ANYTHING... hmmm.... nothing material, because I have everything I want and need.
I wish for my loved ones to enjoy a healthy and carefree life :)

My biggest wish is good health
—if it were possible, I’d wish for new spinal discs. Since that’s not an option, next on my list would be teenagers who don’t act up, and a little windfall so we can build a sunroom… so I can crochet on the terrace while staying warm in the winter.

Right now, I’m wishing for self-knitting needles! :-D

@Michaela,

wishful thinking... if you find any, please get some for me too, and see if they have crochet hooks there as well ;-)

A little Swedish-red wooden cottage on Bornholm with a white porch and a view of the sea, next to it a barn full of hand-dyed and wonderful wool....
But what I really, truly wish for is probably even more impossible: peace among people all over the world, an end to hatred and violence...
And that I manage to live with peace, patience, contentment, and love—at least in my own little circle—and that’s often hard enough...
With that in mind, I wish you all a peaceful and merry Christmas!

@Sabine - because of your back, I’ll just say: “Yoga.”

Aside from the usual wishes for health and well-being for everyone close to me, I wish I could make a living from my craft patterns.

Of course, it should say “well-being” :-DDD

@Inna,

Yoga... if only there were a class like that here in the middle of nowhere!

I’ve actually been thinking seriously about what I could wish for—something that might be possible if...
I wish for time—time for myself, my loved ones, and, of course, my hobby. 

@Sabine, you don’t need a class for that—and these days, with YouTube, certainly not. With the simplest exercises, you can’t do any harm, but you can become largely pain-free very quickly and, in the long run, even fully fix many things.

@Ina,
to be pain-free... that would be the first time in 35 years!
The problem is, I have a massive herniated disc, some of my vertebrae are fusing together, etc... and I’m not going to have surgery as long as I can avoid it. Sometimes I feel better, sometimes worse.

To everyone who wants to pray with me!
And I now have a great wish for the wishing well:
My uncle was just taken to the hospital because he’s having heart problems again.

My wish for him is that everything will be okay again and that he’ll be with me for a long time to come...

@Sabine—it’s really no big deal; just get started, for example with the “tree” exercise—your back isn’t actively involved at all, but the more you perfect this exercise, the better it’ll be for your spinal discs, because everything else around it will fall into place, and eventually you’ll realize for yourself that you’re capable of more. So if you practice regularly and with focus, and listen to your body, you’ll see amazing results.

I wish your uncle a speedy recovery and hope your wish comes true.

Thanks, Inna

@Sabine

I’m keeping my fingers crossed for you. 

So, now that I’m already on the subject, I have a video for anyone interested in which the “tree” is explained so thoroughly that no questions remain unanswered:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAkwVgX-gJU

@Sabine
hope your uncle gets well soon, and that your back feels better soon too

@Josefa and Michaela,

Thanks :-) My uncle is definitely more important to me...

@ Sabine : I also wish your uncle a speedy recovery.

I don't wish for much, just that our wish to have a child comes true next year. 

I wish for the same thing every year and almost never get it: a white Christmas.
What I still wish for—and thank God always comes true—is good health for my family and that no major misfortune befalls us.

And I wish everyone else here that their wishes come true!

@Arni,

my uncle is back home... now we have to wait until the end of January for the MRI! Christmas is saved, because something would have been missing without him.

As for your wish to have children, I can only offer one piece of advice: don’t think about it too much or cling to it too tightly—it only delays things. I’m speaking from experience :-) My husband really wanted another one right away, well, she then took 6 years to arrive. He had simply become too fixated on it, and only when he let go of that extreme drive to succeed did it work out.

I have 6 children, and 4 of them just happened :-)
Stay relaxed and it will work out... I hope your wish comes true soon :-)

@Sabine, I’m glad your uncle is home for Christmas. I’m happy for you.

I’m taking the whole “wanting a child” thing pretty calmly. It would just be nice. I’m already 38, after all. My husband’s comment: “If it doesn’t work out, we’ll buy a convertible.” That’s his way of dealing with it and taking the pressure off. I had a miscarriage in June (I was only 8 weeks along), but since then, my desire to have a child has grown immensely. After all, I’m already 38.
Well, but if it doesn’t work out, our life is still wonderful.