Happiness is here and here and here

I'm finding happiness in the strangest places, at the oddest times, and in moments that seem like nothing but feel like everything.

Inspired by the "Happy Days in May" project over at Seven Cherubs, I decided to keep a happiness journal this month. Each night I've recorded a little something that has made me happy each day. Just a sentence, fragment or two.

Now 21 days in, I looked over my happy notes and found most days my girls are my happy. No surprise there. I love them more than I knew possible, so of course they're giving me endless bursts of happiness.

But what did surprise me is the little moments of seeming nothingness that brought happiness to my body, mind and soul...

...Ten minutes of stretching in bed in the morning. Waking my body slowly, gradually, gently, with ease. {A contrast to the usual bound out of bed to get little miss two her fix of yoghurt and Dora}...

...Running outside in the grass barefoot at little miss two's request {I felt free, boundless, refreshed}...

...Sitting down for five minutes {and listening to the tick-tock of the kitchen clock, drinking a HOT cup of tea, and savouring two pieces of dark chocolate}...

...Lying down and listening to the sounds of close-to-silence for 10 minutes as my babies slept...

I had no idea my life had so much happy moments going on until I started recording it. And it's made me notice more and more that what we focus on, we create. Just like my focus on gratitude, this happiness caper is making life that little bit sweeter, lighter, healthier. I wonder what's next...

Elisa xx


What {or who} is making you happy today?