lol 6 sugars thats 1 strong coffee. Ano its hard to be positive all the time. specially when we are different from the norm. Just try and work on your positivity - ul start to feel better about life and wont see things as negitive as much. your really not that bad looking atall. youve had a decent surgery and you have a son out of your life. mmm 5 things that make me happy ooo il have to think about this

1) winding people up or pulling silly pranks.

2) cuddling up with a partner - makes you feel like your not alone.

3) Helping someone out making a difference to their life in a positive way - bringing a smile to their face.

4) food - ice cream , curry , burgers , pizza loads of food.

5) Music - always feel in a better mood when listening to my favourite tunes

1.the gaslight anthem or brand new-favorite band
2.my boyfriend
3.shopping
4. cuddling with my bf
5. texting

Today has been a "almost" great day. I must admit that I was surprised to see 2 comments. I love cuddling too, it's a great way to express your emotion without actually saying it. I took some great pictures of my son today, I realised that I might not be perfect, but my wicked little angel sure is. Today I am grateful that I can spend so much time with my little one. He made me realise today that if you look through a child's eyes at the world, it's not that bad. When you're that little, looks, money, popularity doesn't matter. The only thing that matters at that age is doing the one thing you love most and doing it all the time. He got so excited just playing with grass today and seeing a goat (here we call a goat a bokkie, I'm afrikaans), so he went and sat down next to this goat and the joy on his sweet little face when that goat made a noice, just made me catch my breath and get excited to.

I don't have any talents, but I realised that I have a passion, for my son. So 5 things that made me happy today was:

1) Getting up at 4am and drinking cocoa with my son
2) Seeing my son run and play outside asif he's never been outside
3) Taking a nice long hot shower
4) Eating french fries and drinking choclate milk with my son for breakfast
5) And finding out 2 people actually took the time to read what I wrote.

I agree with Miller. You look good. I disagree with you. You do have talent! You have the talent to see the world through a child's eyes and write about it and show the reader that joy!

My list:

1. I love to tell stories and make people laugh
2. Cooking and nurturing with food brings me joy
3. Spending time with children, unofficial children, grand children and unofficial grand children.
4. Helping people with clefts or other health issues, realize that they are awesome and they are not the small part of them that is different.
5. Having children to enjoy all of the work my husband and I have done around here. Farm animals, gardens, mountains, home improvement projects, walks on our beautiful property and feeling the peace that we feel here. :-)

It's odd, I've never thought of having a childs perception as a talent. I do make a mean cup of coffee tho,lol. If I do have a talent I haven't discovered it just yet, but there's still time. Today I've been in a little bit of a mood, so hopefully tonight I will sleep it off and get up tomorrow and be, well be me or atleast a little better version of me. I'll even try to smile.

Here I go again making meself sound like a very very sad person. But I have to admit, I do have a lot of sad days, a lot of angry days, a lot of days that I just don't want to get up. The only thing that keeps me going is my wicked little angel. Today he through a tantrum for more toothpaste. He loves brushing his teeth, but he loves toothpaste even more. And I thought to myself: Why can't toothpaste give me such joy? So I sat down next to him on our very very cold floor and brushed my teeth with him. I guess if you do take the time and think about what is nice about brushing your teeth it is simple, the bubbles and the vibration and the after taste...

So five things that made me happy today:

1) Bubbles
2) Electric Toothbrush
3) Toothpaste
4) Feeling minty fresh after brushing teeth
5) Having my son run to me asking me to put toothpaste on his toothbrush

There you go! Seeing the world through the eyes of a child and taking time to see the joy that a child sees, is quite medicinal. Everything is new and exciting. As much trouble as we may have had, as children, we had these happy discoveries too. They were just clouded by the difficult experiences we had and over shadowed them. We can see them all over again in the eyes of our children and grand children and maybe, if we are lucky enough we can realize just how exciting the world really is!

I have this wonderful picture of you sitting with your little angel and enjoying the experience of tooth brushing on his level. Maybe you can get back some of the joy you lost or never had. My children did that for me and now my grand children are doing that too. There is so much joy to experience in this life. Sometimes, it's all in the way we look at it. Nothing like a child to show us that!

I do agree with you BarbieO, a child makes you want to make yourself a better person.

Today I would love to just stay in bed. It's so cold here at the moment (it's almost the middle of winter). So I'm here in my warm cosy bed and a memory struck me like a 10 pound hammer. When I was small cold didn't bother me. I could get up at the crack of dawn in the middle of winter and play outside barefoot. And now I look at my son and he's the same. I think most if not all kids just doesn't feel the cold or if they do, it's because they love it. I remember my grandmother always telling me to put shoes on, and I hated that. Shoes are so confining, like a little jail for your feet. Now that I'm all grownup, I just want to be warm. So I am going to do a little experiment today, later on, going barefoot outside. Braving the wild, so to speak, I live on a farm. SO it's all grass and dirt which I love and hate at the same time. I'm almost sure that I will not like this experiment, but I want to try rekindle that old cold flame and see if I could still enjoy winter like I did when I was small and as my son does now.

I am enjoying reliving my childhood joys and discovering a few joys that I just completely missed apparently or completely forgot about. I will let you guys know how the experiment went, if I don't lose all my toes, lol.

Good luck with the cold activity! It's summer here and I had the cooler on all night! During winter, the wood stove is always going and I deal with snow and a long country road. I live on acreage with pine, cedar and oak trees and gardens and critters. Always wanted to be a full time farmer but I married a teacher and taught too for 10 years. We built our own home and I have done all manner of DIY and restoration projects. I like to can and I raise just about anything with feathers, although I have raised most types of livestock, one time or another. Mostly I was a full time wife and mother and now, a grandmother. I love spending time with my family, especially my grandchildren. Don't get to do that as much as I would like because they live so far away but we party, when we get together. My youngest son, just got married and I spent 6 weeks planning all of the cool stuff to do with my grandchildren and grandnephews, while they were here for a few days.

How was it, running barefoot in the cold? :-)

Lol, I would not call it running barefoot in the cold, more like slowly walking on my tippy toes for about 10 seconds. I will admit that this is one childhood joy that I NEVER want to re-live again. I'm def not built for that anymore. But my son did enjoy it, and later said to me: Mommy funny. So I guess one good thing has come out of this experiment, seeing my son laugh at me.

I am getting the flu, so I think this morning barefoot walking outside was maybe not such a good idea. My son on the other had a joyful round about with the puppies and got very fustrated because he couldn't get hold of one (the pups are 3 weeks old, but running around asif they have done it for years). Three pups, called, Wiskey, Jack and Daniels. My son loves them, just a pity we have to give them away in 3 weeks time.

I am not a big bird lover, except for owls, they are so beautiful. I'm a big cat person, but I love all animals and creepy crawlies. Except the assasin bug, nasty little critter the size of a pinky nail, but stings 10 times worse than a wasp. I have 3 things that I'm scared of: Being under water, balloons and pigeons. Apparently only one is a rational fear according to professionals. Guess which one, lol.

Five things I am grateful for today:
1) Seeing my son laugh because his mom is silly
2) Whatching my son cuddle with three pups and knowing he's going to love animals as much as I do
3) Shoes
4) Socks
5) A hot bath

i just got 5 or 6 pair of new shoes lol

Hope you are feeling better today and that rediscovering the joys of childhood didn't make you too sick! We are having a family party today and my newlywed son and his lovely bride will be coming for a bbq! Whoo Hoo! One other son, too. Winter for you, summer for us :-( Stay warm!

It seems to me, just from reading your post, that you ARE smart, because you think on a deeper level, and are trying to find ways to make your life better. Stupid people don't do that. I bet that you are also beautiful and funny!! You seem like a really interesting person and I'd like to get to know you :)

Five things that make me happy?

-My dog, because at the end of a long day I open the door and he's there wagging his tail and smiling (he really does smile)
-Sunshine
-Music
-The first few minutes of waking on a day when you are not forced to get out of bed. Honestly, my bed NEVER feels so good outside of that moment
-Coffee

Dittos with Cspot!

Thank you Cspot and BarbieO!!! Atm moment I have terrible flu, but on the brighter side I'm hopped up on flu meds. And I agree with Cspot with that moment of waking up and not getting out of bed. In that moment I don't remember all my troubles and I just lay there for a few seconds and feel normal.

Today is very cold again, but I got to sleep in because my son is with his Mim (grandma) till Friday. And I just embraced the feeling of my blanket, sheet and electric blanket. It felt like drifting on a cloud. A warm fuzzy cloud.

My son is getting very cute now, yesterday he was running outside on the grass (which is very dry and brown) he told me: Mommy crunchy. So he laid down on it and then laughed because he said the grass was funny because it tickled. I do love his laugh. I thought to myself that at that age, a laugh is so pure and truthfull, he doesn't laugh if he really doesn't think it's funny. He won't laugh just because all the people around him is laughing. So his intensions are pure and he hasn't learnt yet to just play along because everyone else is doing it. He finds joy just looking at a water dripping or the christmas lights on our christmas tree (which I still haven't taken down, because he enjoys it so much).

Talking about our christmas tree, I'm very proud of my my little creation. We don't have a lot of money, but I really wanted a christmas tree, so I made one. It's dried twigs placed in an old pot. With old lights I found in a cupboard. For the decorations, I took old washers and springs and painted glue on it and dipped it in glitter. It's quite a sight.

Sorry, someone once said that my mind works like a gumball machine, different thoughts everytime you turn the nob. So I tend to babble about anything that jumps in my mind.

So five things I am greatful for today:
1) Flu meds
2) Choclate mousse choclates
3) Fruit chutney Chips
4) Fruit juice
5) Christmas trees

I love, love, LOVE the fact that you made your own Christmas tree, and I love even MORE is the fact that you keep it up for your son!! It takes a great parent to to that.

I admire the mind of a child, because they make you smile at the oddest things, and the smallest things. They can remind you that life is really quite simple at time when you think things are so serious. I am not a mother, but I hope someday I will be. I appreciate the fact that they appreciate the smallest things and all of those things outside of the norm.

Have you ever considered crafting as a hobby? It's really fun and has helped me. I find little projects online that I can do. It's fun, it fills the time, and is very rewarding.