happy things (50 of them!)

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The golden girl!

 

I made it and…..

i’m happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy!

You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever. Psalm 16:11

Sometimes just thinking of something in-particular triggers happiness in us.

When I think of you this happens!

(Yes, you!)

And here are 50 more of those ‘happy’ thoughts I am grateful for:

(in no particular order…well maybe just a few…)

  1. mass
  2. a warm hug
  3. a sweet smile
  4. a tender blessing
  5. a dog named Helen
  6. the bible
  7. polka dots
  8. candy apples
  9. pearls
  10. tea
  11. gregorian chant
  12. a favorite childhood book
  13. gardenias
  14. soft lips
  15. rainy days
  16. peanut butter
  17. old photos
  18. rosary beads
  19. grape pie
  20. lemon cake
  21. macaroni salad with tuna-fish
  22. blue-birds
  23. wine
  24. swedish fish
  25. birthdays
  26. babies
  27. campfires
  28. gibbles (potato chips)
  29. baking
  30. libraries
  31. kayaks
  32. beach-front
  33. warm bread
  34. bananas with peanut butter
  35. dulcimer
  36. downton abbey
  37. red bicycle
  38. powder-blue boxes
  39. return to me
  40. bit-o-honey
  41. rocking chairs
  42. feather pillows
  43. polish pottery
  44. cheese boards
  45. a ball of yarn
  46. moonlight
  47. champagne
  48. ferns
  49. blogging
  50. hearing ‘i love you.’

I hope-ity-hope today

at least a few of them turn into ‘more than a thought’

and come my way!

Which makes me happy all-over again just thinking about what they may be!

These were just 50 of my happy…

what are some of yours?

hugs n’ blessings to everyone that shows up to do ‘happy together’ today!

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Sacred Heart of Jesus, I trust in You!

start your engines…it’s birthday week!

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In a few short days

I will become

25 twice,

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5 perfect tens,

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the wonderfully BIG

5-zero!

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And it already feels GOLDEN!

Am I excited?

Nervous?

Anxious?

Depressed?

Yes, no, no, and a most resounding NO!

Those who know me well

understand this year will be like every other.

Why?

Because I love my birthday!

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Why’s that?

It’s my  no-excusal-necessary day,

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my polka-dots with stripes day,

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my free-pass to be sappy-silly

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so that if anyone asks,

“What is up with her??”

“IT’S MY BIRTHDAY!”

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is the perfectly-perfect thing to say!

“Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you”

2 Corinthians 13:5

I hope you’ll follow along this week and discover all the

“Things of 50”

I plan to chat about.

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Balloon Photos by Jared Schaaf Photography, taken several silly-birthdays-ago.

Who knows????

Maybe you’ll be inspired to find a

polka-dot or stripe

of your very own

along the way!

8 Verses that Christ Lives in You (too!)

Romans 8:10, 2 Corinthians 4:6-7, Galatians 1: 15-16, Galatians 2:20, Galatians 4:19, Ephesians 3:17, Colossians 1:27, 2 Thessalonians 1:10

hugs n’ blessings to all those using their silly-passes this week!

fun-sucker.

it’s the monday giggles….

This weekend

Cuppycake

was birthday balloon bombed!

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Yup.

And I thought it was awesome!

Here’s the recap of the day’s events:

He worked all day.

I baked.

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While others

were plotting & planning

in mischievous ways!

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He came home.

I finished assembling the cake.

We went to dinner.

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Colao’s Ristorante

He got LOTS of telephone

birthday

wishes!

And then we returned home

to find…

lots & lots of shiny mylar balloons

all over

the front of our home!

“How fun!!!”

said me.

“What in the world?”

said he.

We looked and looked and looked

at all the wonderful shiny-ness

and

hoped to see some evidence of the

plotters and planners.

Until, at last,

we went inside

to

eat

cake.

In the morning….

Cuppycake was making coffee.

I went back outside.

To take better pictures

of the shiny-fun

(hanging outside our home,)

to send to our far-away children.

But the balloons were ALL GONE!!!!!!

I told Cuppycake,

“Someone took all your balloons!”

He said,

“No. I took them all down.”

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Yup.

Note to self for my upcoming birthday:

BEWARE OF FUN-SUCKERS!

(They take down balloons far too quickly.)

hugs n’ blessings to all the plotters and planners…

i salute you!

“I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and to do good in one’s lifetime;”  Ecclesiastes 3:12