Happiness is.........

• 4 girls with zero knots in their hair
• soft chubby Gwenny cheeks

• a dance party in the living room
• a dance party on our king sized bed
• our king sized bed
• colorful bowls
• birthday $ I can spend on whatever colorful things I want........
• .........like these or these
• girls playing with my hair while I "surf the net"
• ruffles........on pillows, towels, pajamas..........
• the Drumline soundtrack
• a sparkling clean bathroom
• Tastefully Simple beer bread (thanks Missy) baking in the oven
• an easy dinner of Taquitos (Steve is out of town)
• 7 layer bars (which I polished off all by myself in a ridiculously few number of days)
• perusing old issues of Cottage Living for decorating ideas for the farmhouse
• the farmhouse and all it's potential
• music with a beat that forces you to dance (did I mention the Drumline soundtrack?)
• going out to dinner with friends
• friends.......ours are absolutely incredible!!
• down comforters
• a warm fire
• Magic Erasers....how fun and magical are they?!?
• inspirational blogs
• a felted flower brooch (thanks Mary) sprucing up my ancient denim gap purse
• a new magazine in the mail
• breakfast in bed......even if I'm not hungry (thanks to Addie and Josie)
• a warm day after a week of subzero temps


• folding laundry in front of our big window while watching the girls play happily in the snow
• finding out there will be NO lapse in Steve's paychecks (PTL)

I am happy.