A glass half full approach...

You know I used to dread the long drive to work, but I really believe happiness is a mind set... tell yourself you're happy and before you know it, you feel happy! I've been doing this lately on my drive to work (not that I wasn't happy before) but on the way in I think about all the things in my life that I'm thankful for - things that make me happy. I do a little bit of singing - good thing I'm alone, right? :-) Then, I try to make sure that the things in my life that make me happy have, I guess you would say a front row seat for everything in the day. Strange analogy, but basically I don't want the day to be over and think I didn't even see Grace giggle today, or realize its bedtime and Eva never once gave me her "smoochie" face (aka: I'd like something to drink sign). So while there are tons of things we "have" to do, I think about everything in the day that I "want" to do, and build my day around those things. I still get the "have to's" finished but somehow they don't seem so bad.

So why am I blogging about this? I guess b/c on the off chance I'm not hear to teach this life lesson to the girls I want them to know... you get out of life what you put into it -- but its even more than that... if you truly believe today is going to be a GREAT day, you know what? It probably will be:-) But if you start the day out saying its crap where can things really go but down? Now this isn't to say that bad things don't come along, but I think when I'm happy bad things don't seem so bad. I hope as Grace and Eva grow up this is something I can teach them - I should say, help them keep:-) B/c I know Grace wakes up (once she really wakes up b/c come one we all know she's not a morning person!) she's happy. She's happy to go to school, she's happy to go to Brenda's, she's happy for the small things - the things in life we think are just small, but when they aren't there... they are the big things. I hope they never lose sight of what is important.