Giving Thanks Day 26 ~ Being Happy

Today I am Thankful, and truly Grateful for being happy. It's one of the most important thing in the world, to enjoy your life and just to be happy. Being happy doesn't mean that life is perfect, it just means you have decided to look past the imperfections...that you have all you need to choose joy inside you. No matter what I am going through in life, I hold onto and focus on what makes me happy. Sometimes there are smiles through the tears and hurt, sometimes there are memories and moments that make you happy just thinking about them, I always try to choose joy because life is just to short to be anything less than happy. I post uplifting, positive messages here on facebook as much as I can. They inspire me, lift me up, and keeping me going and I hope they spread positive vibes to others who may need a smile or to be lifted up in times of need. Almost two years ago, facebook had a fun "survey" going around where you wrote down a list of 25 things you were most happy for. This is what I wrote: 
1. The laughter and special moments shared with my boys I could fill up all 25 of these with happiness I have just with them! 
2. Just being silly, the kind of silly where you are laughing so hard and cannot stop! 
3. going to church....devotional time and prayer...the peaceful feeling always makes me happy. 
4. A sunrise at the beach 
5. Being with my family 
6. Hanging out with my best gal pals anywhere at anytime..the laughter, the fun...priceless. 
7. Painting on canvas 
8. Capturing a memory in a photograph....I am seldom without my camera (I think it could be my security blanket) I love pictures...looking at old ones in an album and taking new ones! 
9. Krispy Kremes Hot Fresh Now Sign....because it is followed by squeals of delight (usually from me, and at least a dozen doughnuts)....sheer bliss. 
10. And...I'll just say it....an orgasim...not just any kind...but the Meg Ryan with Billy Crystal in the restaurant scene from "When Harry Met Sally"...the kind that makes you want to smoke a cigarette afterwards...and you don't even smoke....I seriously can't believe all of you made a list without listing that LMAO 
11. Gardening...planting flowers and plants...which is why my hands are always in distress....I love playing in the dirt! I seriously love watching a rose bud unfold and the smell of a jasmine vine..... 
12. My fish tank....I love all my cichlids 
13. Poetry.....I love it 
14. Building sandcastles on the beach with the boys.....the water, fun in the sun....pure happiness. 
15. Watching loggerhead turtles hatch on the beach with a starlit sky....miraculous moments! 
16. A bubble bath. 
17. A great conversation. 
18. Hot chocolate....oh who am I kidding here...any kind of chocolate...as long as it is quality chocolate...there is a difference (again I am surprised no one said this either lol) 
19. Trips to Walt Disney World 
20. Christmas....everything about it, from decorating, to get togethers, the shopping, the baking....everything! 
21. Rain on a tin roof. 
22. Hearing my favorite songs...and listening to acoustic music. 
23. A glass or two of a really great wine 
24. The smell of a a baby after a bath...I love the smell of Johnson and Johnson's No More Tears....
25. Love, simple and pure love :) 

John Lennon sums this up best with one of my favorite quotes: “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” Think about what makes you happy...you can make a list, or say one thing you are grateful or that makes you happy each night before you go to bed. How often in our busy lives do we take time to pause and be thankful for what we appreciate in our life? I am definitely going to add to my list and making this a priority to focus on what makes me happy. It really is the key to life ♥