Happiness

This week was kind of crazy after we got back from Louisiana, but there were lots of happy things too. Wednesday night I went to a birthday dinner for a friend of mine and had the best time. It made me wonder why we don't do more for our birthdays (I have big plans for my next one!) I have another friend's birthday party next weekend, and I can't wait.

Speaking of can't wait... I also booked our anniversary trip this year, and I am so excited! Davis and I have never both been away from the kids, and it's our tenth anniversary in May, so we are going a vacation together. Tickets are bought, hotels are paid for, there's no going back now (we still have to figure out what to do with our kids ha! All of you with parents nearby, you are SO SO lucky!!)

I finally got an iPhone this week (I am so loyal to Verizon, I had to wait) and I found an app that organizes my grocery list by aisle and lets me add things just by scanning the label. I think it says a lot about me that this is the most exciting thing to me about this phone.

I was the "surprise reader" in Sophia's class Friday. It's so fun reading to her class, because they get SO excited! I could totally handle being a kindergarten teacher... for 15 minutes twice a year ha!

For lunch yesterday, I took the leftover pot roast from Friday night and put it on an onion roll and put it under the broiler with swiss cheese on top - it was SO good, Davis kept making fun of me because I was going on and on about what a great sandwich I had made (but he agreed!)

The weather yesterday was gorgeous, so the kids and I went to the zoo (photos in a separate post to come!) and then to my favorite store in the whole wide world to buy some gifts. I love that place, but oh my, I cannot walk out of there EVER without dropping at least $100. Every time.

I want to live there.

Last night was Sophia's school auction - wow! I love, love, love her school and everyone involved with it. We are so incredibly blessed.

Friday night I organized my craft/gift-wrap/correspondence cabinet and my sewing cabinet. Aaaah.

(if you tell me you don't have zebra scissors, I will be sad for you)

And to celebrate I let the kids stay up past bedtime and make this craft.

I hung them up next to our family bulletin board in the dining room, and they are definitely HAPPY.

And speaking of HAPPY, oh my gosh, where have these been all of my life?!?

Henry keeps standing up (though he makes no effort to walk) and he's so proud of himself every time he does. I love it!

There are so many little things to be thankful for and happy about, it is easy to miss them in all the hustle and bustle. It's easy for the big worries to drown out all the small joys, but when you sit down and add them up, those little joys do make up a whole lot of HAPPY!

I wrote this post before church, and then our Gospel reading today was

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."

Matthew 6:25-34

(Then we sang my favorite hymn and I bawled my eyes out - why do I always do that?!)