Happiness Experiment

I have been thinking  lot in the past couple days about my happiness experiment. When I started this blog I was really trying to look at happiness as a vocation not as an emotion or state of being. I have realized that I am a very happy person, but when you are stressed out or working a lot or just kind of stuck in the same day to say rut, you start to be in bad moods more often and get down on yourself.

So, I have decided that when I was doing the happiness experiment, I was indeed a lot happier, in the basic day to say cliche happiness definition. I was smiling more and thinking less about what was stressing me out. So, it is time to do that again. Some things lately that have made me very happy:

• My husband and family of course are always first and foremost when I think of what makes me happy. It is such a blessing that when Erik and I are still in school that we can live at my parents house, it is cute, two married couples rooming together. And, I am counting down the days till all my siblings are home because I am so happy when they are in touching distance of me, where I can read their expressions instead of guessing through a phone call or text. Also, my new family that I have married into, they make me so happy with their dinner parties and beautiful senses of humor.

•  Lately, blogging everyday has helped me to gather my thoughts or more so, show you pictures of my thoughts. It makes me happy to read other people's blogs too. :) It makes me feel more creative and helps me to see how little things do effect other people as well, I read their blogs and feel more connected to the world at large. 

•  Getting along with friends, especially my best girlfriends. All my best girlfriends have all become such beautiful interesting women and they are all in committed loving relationships so it is so fun to talk about life and get together and just laugh. Caitlin, Amanda, Amanda, and Jenny have truly come to be amazing women and I am proud to call them my best friends.

•  Decorating and organizing. I never thought much about it, since I do not like cleaning. But I am actually really good at both these things. I reorganized my mom's craft/sewing area and it looks so great! 

•  Some things that I have stopped doing but made me so happy before, so I must start again: Yoga, Cooking, Reading. I used to do all three on an almost daily basis and with school and work I realized that I let them slip out of my daily routine. I must bring them back. 

Thanks for listening! Happiness Experiment Continues...