Reasons to Celebrate:
A Good Nap
A Child who is happy rolling around on the floor wrapped up in her blanket
A Symphony Provided by the Birds of the Outside
Have fun finding your reasons today. And then do a happy dance about it. 🙂 Slainte, Lisa
Warning: The following post is a shameless plug for Thomas’ English Muffins. If you have a keen dislike of a nooks and crannies-filled delectable morsel of a muffin, topped with butter and orange marmalade, you may want to discontinue reading immediately.
Yes, it’s that kind of morning….things a little out of the normal, schedules slightly askew, and finally things are settled down. And I am sitting down with said delectable 100 percent whole wheat English muffin as we speak. In fact, I am hardly able to write this post as it is calling to me even now….”Take another bite, take another bite.” You know how those English muffins can be. Persistent and so cute that they’re hard to resist. And I’m not going to resist a moment longer. Enjoy your simple pleasures today…they can sometimes be the best. Slainte, Lisa
True confession time: when my son was small, we were a Barney, yes the big purple dinosaur, kind of household for a time. As the amazingly agile and light-footed dinosaur would sing and dance his way through thirty minutes of Barney-world scenarios, things seemed lighter, happier, not so serious.
As an admitted music junkie and an amazingly avid dance fan (for someone who can’t dance 🙂 ), I think Barney’s on to something. I feel the same way when I watch The Muppet Movie and see everyone singing and dancing through the town, “Life’s a Happy Song.” Before I know it, I’m singing along and bopping my head like nobody’s business. I watch “Riverdance” and “Lord of the Dance” and related hard-shoe fantasticness and any sense of doom and gloom I might have felt prior lifts right away.
So to begin your weekend off right, and to put a spring in your step and a song in your heart….here’s your jumpstart. Slainte, Lisa
P.S. If you start singing Barney or Kermit songs today, hold your head high and sing loud! 😉
Near Bray’s Head, Ireland
I had the most amazing dream last night. I was running, barefoot, quickly and effortlessly, on very soft grass towards blue water. Smiling and laughing and generally feeling that feeling that you feel when you’re a kid and have no troubles. (yes, I realize I just used “feeling” too many times) No worries, no aches or pains, no thought to the future other than reaching that water. Dreams are funny; sometimes good, sometimes weird, sometimes scary, but always usually interesting. My favorite dreams always have something to do with travel or movement; my favorite flying dreams, where I flap my arms and take off into the sky; the dreams where I am getting ready for a trip, and now this awesome running whiz dream. 🙂 So the point of today’s blog? Hmmm….must think, must think. No, I don’t want to think; I just want to be happy and remember that feeling of the grass under my feet. Be happy today. Slainte, Lisa
“Life is a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you can spend it only once.”
-Lillian Dickson
The 5 year old tightly clutches the purse that holds her coins. Four bright shiny quarters that she has brought to the shopping center. She wonders what these four coins will bring into her day. Then she sees it. The colorful, musical carousel with four gleaming horses traveling in their circular route. That’s it…that’s what she wants to spend her quarters on. They clink into the slot, and the child selects the most beautiful horse of all to sit upon. She smiles and enjoys the ride; the people who watch her enjoy the sheer happiness of this moment, of the beauty of being alive in God’s beautiful world, of seizing the seconds. When the ride is over, the child and the people are still happy, because they now have a wonderful memory of the music, the smile, and the moment. Slainte, Lisa
Think About These Things 