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A lovely weekend
filled with family and friends
we threw a large bbq dinner
my husband: the king of the grill
made incredible food all on the bbq. Yum!

It was great to see more of the hubby’s side of the family
mine is over all the time – they just drop in uninvited
but this was nice to plan and meet up
so many stories
so many laughs
so much food
all out under the big maple trees in our backyard
Happiness!

My happiness
is all about choosing the best moments
and savouring the day in a positive way.

It’s about Choosing Happiness.

Life is not all perfect here and I don’t want you to think it is.
I choose to see happiness in my life.
I choose the words I write here,
just as I try to choose better words to say out loud.

I’m a complete work in progress.
From the inside to the outside.

“The key to happiness is inside me”.

Do you choose happiness too?

Hello my friends! I hope you had a nice long weekend ~ whether you celebrated Easter or not ;) If you did, I hope it was a lovely time spent with your close ones in love and happiness.

For me right now, happiness is…

a happy easter
family time
great food – I came prepared this time ;)
laughing and dancing
relaxing on the other days
baking & crafting
doing some crazy yard work with no symptoms of MG
seriously! I’m jumping for joy right now
enjoying the first words my daughter reads out loud
being so very proud of this little lady
being so happy I get to raise her while working from home
just finished a couple big jobs (hence the late post)
and a whole lot of relief came in that moment something gets done
love that moment of great satisfaction
next on my ‘to do’ list is a custom design job for a wedding!
yes, this is so exciting!
I love weddings and if I could I would marry every year, to the same man of course ;)
so this will be loads of fun ~ off I go
balancing it all
someone once asked how I do it all?
~ will let you know when I have the answer
oh, and the mr. jumped off a plane!
that is NOT happiness in my book
~ but I’m learning to accept his new crazy hobby!?!?

So my friends, what is happiness to you right now?

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aside from these things, I’m really enjoying Elie Goulding lately…. here’s ‘your song’:

:: happiness is… a lovely way to start the week with a positive reflection of what brings happiness to you right now. positive thinking on a monday morning ~ there’s no better way to start the week. i hope you will join me.

Well Hello my friends on this rough Monday morning ;) If you just enjoyed a March or Spring break – I think we can all agree it’s a little ‘rough’ to carry on with this Monday, right?  So for this reason…. I’m diving deep inside to search out some ‘happiness’…. but secretly wishing we still had just one more day of a lazy day starting with a sleep-in morning…..

Oh, let’s shake off these thoughts, now shall we? Back to reality. Back to our Monday. Let’s hope it’s a good one ;)

Here’s what’s making me happy right now…

true happiness really lately is our weather
so warm and sunny in march. hello is it really march?
we’ve had a great week and a fun weekend,
who can complain….
we went to a maple syrup festival yesterday
this was the first time I learned about sap and maples and the whole process,
sorry, I’m very ‘new’ to lots and kind of discovering things through being a mom or blogging – somehow, these two are the stepping stones to new knowledge ;)
it was good times seeing my whole family and having a great dinner at my sister’s impromptu
my sweet nephew is starting to use his words and there’s a lot of ‘i wuv youuu’s’ coming from him, which is true Happiness, right there in that moment when his big little eyes look up at you
i made a great st. patty’s lunch which I will share with you tomorrow, yummm
right now, I’m enjoying the quiet house
kind of enjoying that the week will get it’s own rhythm again
one that we’re used to and create a certain ‘system’ that keeps our minds and bodies busy
i’m hearing the dehydrator buzzing in the kitchen, making yummy crispy apple slices
i’m sipping my green tea with fresh ginger
i’m still in pyjamas…..
almost ready for the day
i can see the sun is also having a lazy day
as it’s just softly peeking its head out through the bare trees
i think it will be a ‘happy’ day after all
as soon as I try to shake off this dreadful arson news of our beautiful playground in TO ;(

leaving you with a lovely song… (I always try to entertain you in more than one way, don’t i?) it’s by  Royksopp – a Swedish beautiful talent…. enjoy ‘What else is there?’ (sorry it’s not a very happy song with a capital C – but really beautiful)

Happy Monday!

What’s making you happy right now?

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ps. my apologies if my site is not opening for you… apparently there’s been some technical difficulties – I hate technology sometimes – but if it wasn’t thanks to technology ‘we’ wouldn’t be here ;D xo Ella

Come back tomorrow for a belated St. Patty’s feast! A feast I tell you. Filled with 3 original vegan recipes – wheat-free too! See you then ;)