Today I’m (not really) Happy (but I’ll pretend): Day 7
[It's kind of nice writing these little daily happy posts. I've actually had more unhappy than happy moments during the past few days and it's a nice thing to be forced to stop and think about what I'm actually happy about that day. There is always something...and often enough somethings that I have to pick and choose which ones I'm going to post about.]
Three things that make me happy today:
- This weekend I’m going to make bread pudding and chicken fried steak. My boys and I eat very little meat in general but I must be iron/protein deficient at the moment because I’ve been craving meat like crazy. When I stumbled across Alton Brown’s recipe for chicken fried steak I thought of the cube steaks sitting forlornly in my freezer and realized that it was, like, kismet or something. The bread pudding is just because I also want something cinnamony and raisiny and comforty. It’s going to be a comfort food weekend at my house.
- I’m really looking forward to Easter. I was reading the Happiness Project blog a while back and liked Gretchen’s resolutions to be a repository of happy memories and to create family traditions. It made me think about how some of my own happiest memories stem from my family’s traditions and it made me realize the importance of doing that for my own children. So I resolved to start coming up with consistent ways to celebrate lots of little holidays and Easter will be the first. We did do an egg hunt last year but really, my heart was not in it. This year, though, with the idea of starting a tradition, I’m going to create a treasure hunt. I’ll hide our hollow plastic eggs around the house and each egg will contain a picture of where the next egg is hidden. The boys will follow the trail until they get to the end, where I will hide their Easter baskets (which will contain a few sweet treats and a few small items for which I know they’ve been yearning). I think they will really get a kick out of it.
- The forsythia and cherry trees are just so pretty right now.
Something that would make me happier:
- I’d really like to convince my boys’ dad to be an active part of our six year old’s life, especially since his counselor and his kindergarten teacher both think that could really help with the behavior problems.
Solution:
- I sent him an email requesting as much and now I feel ill because I cannot imagine his response will be even remotely positive and I’m going to spend all the time until he does respond feeling intensely anxious about it. But at least I made the effort.