Hello all and welcome to my new blog!
Now, this blog is going to start out a bit sad, but you can't have the sad and depressing without the idea of the happy, so here it all is! This summer sucked! This was, by far, the worst summer I have ever had in my entire life. It was as if a dark cloud was hanging over me and my family and trying to outrun it was impossible! For starters, I flew off of a horse and broke my arm (May 7th) great way to kick off our summertime fun! A surgery followed the day after my son's fifth birthday party while my husband was away on business in Florida. Then on June 7th, our Golden Retriever we had acquired and spent a small fortune on was hit by a car and died within a matter of minutes in my arms. The fun was just getting started folks! As we tried to escape our pain and suffering on a week's trip to Utah, two visits to the Urgent Care ensued (one for Connor with a double eye and ear infection that HAD to look worse than it felt....I hope, and one for me for a second bout of tonsillitis). Following our fun trip I went for a visit to an ENT (Otolaryngologist for my speech therapy friends reading this) where the doctor informed me he was "pretty sure" due to the size and shape of my tonsils that not only did I have tonsillitis, again, but that I most likely had lymphoma and would need to have my tonsils removed and biopsied for the results. That pretty much brings us up to speed...there are some other stressful moments that are still beyond my comprehension or ability to express, but that should be enough for now to move on to my reasons for "Happy Challenge" don't ya think?
My sweet friend Jennifer told me three days ago that I deserved 365 days of happiness and that it started that day. I thought a lot about that and tried to make each day a good day, then they became GOOD days. Day one, ran into my friend Jennifer twice in one day, happy because we don't see one another that often during the week and I had just come back from the beach and visiting my parents (all happy things)
Day 2: I spent the entire day with just one son since David and Joel were away in New Mexico. It was fun getting to know Connor and our trip to Toys R Us was magical. Then we went to lunch and had Sushi with my dad (ALWAYS a yummy time) and ended our pre-nap time with some Krispy Kreme doughnuts! My night ended with some wonderful ladies and some fabulous stories at a Mom's night out hosted by a lady I became friends with through Joel's school this year. Spinach and cheese ravioli with Alfredo sauce....need I say more??
Day 3: Here we are on day three and I thought I would have forgotten about this whole 365 day happy thing. But it really stuck with me! What if I could actually do this? What if I could BE happy for 365 days? True, it is a great challenge (especially with having all of the above still fresh in our memories) but I don't have to be psycho happy, what if I could just find that moment each day that I can hold on to when the rest of the day looks like it is all going down hill? Maybe I could toss all of that negative depressing energy out the window and cling to good things. I say it is worth a try! So here I go friends! I am going to post, for the next 362 days my Happy Challenge. May it inspire YOU to become happy, to find some new things in life to do, or to just read my attempt at happiness and get a REALLY good laugh....that would make me happy.
A pic of me and Jazz just one month before our accident:
Now, this blog is going to start out a bit sad, but you can't have the sad and depressing without the idea of the happy, so here it all is! This summer sucked! This was, by far, the worst summer I have ever had in my entire life. It was as if a dark cloud was hanging over me and my family and trying to outrun it was impossible! For starters, I flew off of a horse and broke my arm (May 7th) great way to kick off our summertime fun! A surgery followed the day after my son's fifth birthday party while my husband was away on business in Florida. Then on June 7th, our Golden Retriever we had acquired and spent a small fortune on was hit by a car and died within a matter of minutes in my arms. The fun was just getting started folks! As we tried to escape our pain and suffering on a week's trip to Utah, two visits to the Urgent Care ensued (one for Connor with a double eye and ear infection that HAD to look worse than it felt....I hope, and one for me for a second bout of tonsillitis). Following our fun trip I went for a visit to an ENT (Otolaryngologist for my speech therapy friends reading this) where the doctor informed me he was "pretty sure" due to the size and shape of my tonsils that not only did I have tonsillitis, again, but that I most likely had lymphoma and would need to have my tonsils removed and biopsied for the results. That pretty much brings us up to speed...there are some other stressful moments that are still beyond my comprehension or ability to express, but that should be enough for now to move on to my reasons for "Happy Challenge" don't ya think?
My sweet friend Jennifer told me three days ago that I deserved 365 days of happiness and that it started that day. I thought a lot about that and tried to make each day a good day, then they became GOOD days. Day one, ran into my friend Jennifer twice in one day, happy because we don't see one another that often during the week and I had just come back from the beach and visiting my parents (all happy things)
Day 2: I spent the entire day with just one son since David and Joel were away in New Mexico. It was fun getting to know Connor and our trip to Toys R Us was magical. Then we went to lunch and had Sushi with my dad (ALWAYS a yummy time) and ended our pre-nap time with some Krispy Kreme doughnuts! My night ended with some wonderful ladies and some fabulous stories at a Mom's night out hosted by a lady I became friends with through Joel's school this year. Spinach and cheese ravioli with Alfredo sauce....need I say more??
Day 3: Here we are on day three and I thought I would have forgotten about this whole 365 day happy thing. But it really stuck with me! What if I could actually do this? What if I could BE happy for 365 days? True, it is a great challenge (especially with having all of the above still fresh in our memories) but I don't have to be psycho happy, what if I could just find that moment each day that I can hold on to when the rest of the day looks like it is all going down hill? Maybe I could toss all of that negative depressing energy out the window and cling to good things. I say it is worth a try! So here I go friends! I am going to post, for the next 362 days my Happy Challenge. May it inspire YOU to become happy, to find some new things in life to do, or to just read my attempt at happiness and get a REALLY good laugh....that would make me happy.
A pic of me and Jazz just one month before our accident:
Way to go you! It's hard to face so many challenges and obstacles and come out looking forward to positive things!
ReplyDeleteThis is awesome! I didn't know you were doing it. I love it. I want to take the challenge and get rid of my negative energy and find more happy moments to cling onto. Way to go! I look forward to all the posts.
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