Happiness and joy

Friday just somehow magically turned out perfect. These kind of days are far and few between- but when I do have them, I sure enjoy every minute:) I knew it was going to be such a perfect day- that I captured most of it- for you all to be jealous! LOL ! FIRST HALF Clean house- the WHOLE house was clean- and it always makes me feel so much better when I leave and everything is clean- and I have a clean house to come home to. House clean- so we go on a walk to Grandmas (which is only a little over a ... Read Full Story

Spring is in the air!! (In Houston at least) I love the months of March/April for SO many reasons! Let's just go through and start listing them. 1. I'm excited for ALL these fun colors to come BACK into season. There is just something about these colors that seems to make everything bright and happy. This morning I got Dante's outfit ready for him to wear, and I chose a pink polo- and when I gave him his clothes for the day and said, "Get dressed!" He goes, " MOOOMM!! I DO NOT HAVE to wear a pink shirt, do I??" Such a good ... Read Full Story

Growing up I was always known as the dumb blonde! Even though I made straight A's had a 4.0 GPA - I was known as a ditz, airhead, dumb blonde and any other names like that you can think of. It never bothered me- because I knew I was smart, but more importantly- I knew who I was and I knew that all those "names" were not true. I was happy with who I was as a person. Now that I look back, I think that people assumed I was a dumb blonde because I was happy all of the time. It was rare ... Read Full Story

Surround yourself with people who love you and support you in all you do. I was speaking to a group a few weeks ago and during my speech I noticed a girl in the front row who had the awkward look on her face of confusion. When I saw her face, immediately my mind started racing "I'm doing a terrible job!" "I'm not getting through." "I'll never be a professional public speaker" " I should just quit now and walk out". Of course, I couldn't just stop speaking and walk out- I had to keep going. I quickly moved my eyes away from this ... Read Full Story

I'm so grateful for the response I have had to guest bloggers ! I love reading what other people have to say about happiness, and learning from their wonderful words. Here is another amazing guest post from Jen Love is what happiness is all about. Loving yourself, your family, your friends and doing things for them. Jen has brought housework back to a loving perspective that I fear I had forgotten. Thanks Jen ! It was a Wednesday several months ago when I first changed the way I deal with laundry. By about the hundredth (I may be exaggerating a little bit here) inside-out ... Read Full Story