My Little Happy Place

I've been the good mommy today. I've filled countless cups full of milk, gatorade or water, made three meals, doled out snacks, hugged and kissed any and all scrapes, bruises, or bruised feelings and took the peanut patrol swimming. Glad to do it. I feel very blessed to have these little people around the place ~smiling~.

However, not one to be overly martyr-istic, I know when it's time to go to my "happy place" which is what I have been doing for the last hour and a half, since the lights went out for the children.


I left part of the dinner dishes in the sink. They'll wait until tomorrow. I'll fold that last bit of laundry later.
Okay, honestly, that will be tomorrow too.

Instead, I took a warm shower,

I used the citrusy shower gel that I received for Christmas from one of my sisters as opposed to the normal Dove soap usually used and loved. Ahhhhh.

I put on my favorite summer pajamas: my dh's boxers and a soft white sleep tee.

I made some tea.

Smoothed on some pretty smelling lotion.

Wrote a little, and pasted some things into my homekeeping notebook

Read a few blog posts which made me sigh happy, sigh gratefully, laugh, cheer and cry

Wrote this post

And now I will be heading for my bed to read the Magnificat and then to finish off the rest of an inspirational novel I'm reading currently - Echo In The Darkness by Francine Rivers.

... all while listening to a rousing thunderstorm boasting the mighty power of mother nature out there right now. Have I ever mentioned that I really love thunderstorms? I don't know why, but they fascinate me.

It doesn't take much to make me happy I guess, but the point is, that it does take something here and there to keep this lady full of love, life, and go go juice. So, please, Be very, very nice to yourself sometime this week "because, doggonnit, I like you, and you are okay" ~laughing as I remember the Gordon Smalley skits from snl long, long ago.


May God Love You and Keep You