Had this in my inbox ♥️ tell us five things that make you happy! and then send this to ten people who liked or reblogged something from you :-)
Oh Goodness, my first ask! I could be easy and just say stuff like "my family," but that would be boring, so here we go in no particular order:
I Love Love Love hearing my husband's laugh all the way across the house when he has encountered something that has really tickled his funny bone. - just love his various laughs! I swear just hearing his laugh somedays works better than laughing myself.
Being outside, unless the weather is just absolutely miserable, always makes me happy. And frankly, even then, if I have the right clothes I'm okay. The outdoors is my happy place. I find even opening the window/shades/blinds and letting a little outside in can suffice when I can't go out. This is rather vague you say... yes it is because I found it doesn't matter. Outside is outside. Working in the flowerbeds or hiking in a trail is all the same to me, so long as it gets me outside, I enjoy it all the same.
Color - color makes me very very happy. Color has always had a strong pull on me. I had been one to keep a little box of treasures tucked under my bed as kid and in it I would keep paint swatches, sometimes actual little pieces of dried acrylic paint, and little bobbles I held onto because of the color or the color combo I wanted to save for some weird reason. I especially like Blue, Green, and Yellow.
Dogs - I cannot have a list of things that make me happy that doesn't include dogs. There is something about a dog to me that is irreplaceable. They are an immense source of happiness for me. My dogs are my family, the same as my kids or my husband, I love them just as much. I mourn them just as much. For better or worse, I need them in my life and I cannot imagine walking through my life without a four legged companion to go with me.
Seeing what caring, kind, thoughtful, civic minded, loving, critical thinkers I have raised. Seeing them in action makes me super happy. As a parent when you see your grown children act on the things you tried to teach them when they were little, and that translates into positive community action now, that makes me super happy. My kids are stepping up and stepping in for good however they can in their communities. They are even helping me start an NPO so we can work on some of the issues in our area. So my family makes me happy yes, but seeing that my kids want to make the world a better place rather than just coasting along makes me super happy.