Happiness

Happiness is opening your eyes and seeing the big blue eyes of your two year old smiling up at you beside your bed. Happiness and pulling her into your arms and sleepily snuggling with her and her daddy while we all watch Winnie the Pooh cartoons. Happiness is thinking that you may have found a church "home" where people were so warm and friendly and everything just seemed to feel "right". Happiness is having a husband who recognizes your love of all things chocolate and caffeine containing and surprises you with a fresh hot mocha between sunday school and church when he supposedly went to move the car to a better parking spot. Yum! Happiness is taking a nice long run and taking in all of the beauty of God's desert and mountains....running with a view SO amazing you almost don't feel the pain of the run....almost. Happiness is taking a bike ride as a family and just spending time together away from the phone and the t.v. (not that anyone really calls us here in Arizona). Happiness is getting everyone in the bed early enough to be able to read a satisfying amount of A Wrinkle in Time to my little boys and leave them thirsting for more tomorrow night. Happiness is knowing that all the kids go back to school tomorrow after a lovely spring break and that I can get back to the gym in full force and work on this scale issue. Happiness is weighing in at 153.4 this morning...a whole pound less than yesterday. Happiness is reflecting on this day and having too many blessings to count! God has been good to this family and to this woman. I am just so thankful for His many gifts and the sunshine He shines daily on my life.