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Three Little Girls, A Very Unexpected Baby Boy, A Large Dog, Three Fish, A Guinea Pig, A Very Busy Mommy, And One Hardworking Daddy

Friday, March 21, 2014

100 Days of Happiness Day 29




Sometimes I’m not in the mood to write a “happy” post.
There, I said it.
Sometimes I find myself taking inventory of the less positive goings on in my life. A couple times I’ve told myself this happy project is lame. And I’ve almost stopped doing it a few times. Because it’s easy to find the negative things on certain days. It’s not always easy to see beauty and joy in ordinary life. But I want to be the type of person who does find happiness everywhere… And so I work on it – all the time. And that’s why I really enjoy this project… If you’re so inclined, I encourage you to join in. It really does shift the focus from dwelling on the negative, to always looking out and being aware of the positive. And truly, positivity attracts more positivity. So please consider doing it:

 
With that said, my happy moment today was helping a friend and her son get 500 sandwiches ready for local homeless folks. We signed up to make 100 sandwiches. Peyton and one of her friends took the first shift. John and I covered the second. Of course John turned it in to a major competition. Did I not know he was the best sandwich maker on the planet? His peanut butter spreading technique is recognized across nations for being superior. His jelly to peanut butter ratio is but perfection… I managed to eek out some (sub-par) pb&j’s myself, all the while smack talking with my husband…
Does it not put life in perspective when you think that perhaps a pb&j may be the best meal you receive all day? No matter how difficult a situation I may struggle with, I know that I am fed and that my kids will never be hungry. Sometimes looking at life though another person’s eyes who is struggling in a way most of us cannot comprehend, makes me realize just how fortunate I am. Helping somebody else, no matter how big or small makes me happy.  

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