Setting my Heart On Fire

It's the little things in life that make me the happiest and calmest lately. Isn't it so great how a new candle or a new strategy can make you breathe a little easier. Lately, I've been noticing the small things around me that make me smile and feel my very best. Some are so ridiculous that it hurts to share, but gosh darn do they make me happy.


1. I love pictures in our house and I love taking pictures of our family. But I hate that all of my pictures get stuck on my phone and I never see them again. Right now, these digital screens that show all of the pictures that we take are making me beyond happy.

2. A new planner that I'm actually using EVERY day. Who would have thought? I've tried for years and it's actually happening.

3. The sweet women at the Post Office. Gosh I love them.

4. Aviator Sunglasses from the Kids Section of Old Navy. Mom life means losing lots of sunglasses and bending down a lot. Who knew that I should just shop in the kids' section to make sure they stay on my head?


5. I am the worst at drinking water.  I need to have a system that makes me drink water and know how much I have drank. This is so ridiculous that this scratch piece of paper makes me happy. I put the water bottle on the number that I have drank.


6. How good your favorite outfit can make you feel. My favorite outfit is Jeans and a White Shirt. When I wear that I feel like I can take on the world.

7. Switching over your closets from Summer to Fall. Hello sweater friends, I have missed you so much!

8. An empty inbox. Anyone else clean out their inbox everyday? Makes me feel like I've gotten everything that I needed to do done. Just another way that I trick myself into feeling good.

9. Shopping in a friends' closet. I'm heading to DC this weekend to visit my bestest friend. I hate all of my clothes and honestly don't feel like shopping. My sweet friend is letting me look through her closet for something fun to wear.

10. Walking around my house with a bucket and picking up everything that bugs me has become a past time that I can get behind. I pick up every little toy, bobby pin, piece of trash, anything that doesn't belong and put it in my bucket. Once the bucket is full, I put that item where it goes.

These things plus a million more give me "That can't eat, can't sleep, reach for the stars over the fence, world series kind of love. " (It Takes Two, anyone?)

What super small things make you ridiculously happy?

Have a great day, friends.