Count The Happy Things

     Ok, so weighing myself after the diet didn't work out, well, because I don't own a scale. Slight overlook on my part. I'll need to go buy one of those. Check back in next week and we will see how much I lose. Here though, was my last supper. Tasty? Slightly, nothing magical.

     Something else today caught my attention. I remembered someone I used to know that every time she would feel down, or in a bad mood, she would count the happy things. I haven't done this in a long time. I don't know why, the positive girl that used to think of every single breath as a miracle doesn't come around anymore. Today I was in a bad mood. So many things seem to be against me today and I was sad and moody. So Jacob sat me down and said this, "I want you to make a list of all the things that make you happy and you are not aloud to stop until you FEEL HAPPY." And then he went to cut his hair with the trimmer that fixed the wiring on all by himself today. He also got a promotion at work. My husband is awesome. So because I have an awesome husband, and he knows me so very well, here I go. A list of Happy Things, in order of thoughts flying into my head.

Happy Things

Jacob
Baby Stuff (For future notes)
Babies in general.
Money
Having a laptop named Esmeralda.
Allergy Medicine
Presents
Shoes
Pinterest
Psych
Charmed
The Rainbow Cake I am going to make tomorrow. Blog to come.
The Onion soup I made for dinner with broccoli, rice, tuna(Jacob's idea, turned out well), low-fat sour cream, all in a bread bowl. Took a picture to place at the bottom of today's blog.
Bacon
Mary Kay
Helping People
People in General
The book called What Einstein Told His Cook.
The mall
Shoes
ShoeDazzle
Your Next Shoes Blog
Music
Driving with the music playing very very loudly. (You would think this would distract me. It actually helps me concentrate.)
Crockpots
Rice Cookers
The Food Channel
Really muscular male movie stars.
Duct Tape
Books
Shakespeare
The pencil or pen he used to write his masterpieces.
Pedicures
Maincures
In fact, they are best done as a Mani-Pedi.
Quilts
Grandparents
Really nice kitchen supplies, Kitchen Aid Mixers for instance.
Did I mention shoes?
Cute Dresses
The really cute styles on pinterest.
Really nice Hotels.
Spas
Losing weight.
Fitting into a size 6 skirt one day. =)
Fantasizing about traveling the world with my husband, and Colby and her husband.
Dreaming about the future.
Designing my future house on Pinterest.
Getting amazing tips, crafts, and recipes off of pinterest.
Looking at shoes.
Wearing shoes.
Touching shoes.
NOT smelling shoes....
My husband's promotion.
How hard my husband works to provide for us.
How good my husband is with numbers.
How wonderfully my husband walks.
The way my husband talks.
The way that rhymed just now. 
The way I did not rhyme that on purpose.
How my husband can cut his own hair, and fix his trimmer wiring after it explodes in our living room.
How patient my husband is when it comes to housework. One day I will get this whole keeping the whole house clean all at the same time thing down.
The thought that one day I will have a perfectly clean house ALL THE TIME! Wha?!?!?!
Reading my patriarchal blessing. 
Knowing that my Heavenly Father is always there for me.
Feeling the presence of the spirit. (Wondering if I am supposed to capitalize Spirit....)
Spirit.....spirit....hmmmmm.....
The scriptures, and the way they can comfort and heal.
The Gift of Discernment.
Those prayers where I literally can't explain them without putting it in the form of a conversation. (I said, "This." God said, "That.")
The fact that God chastises us so that we may make our weakness strengths.
Avocados.
Lorilie. (Pronounced Laura-Lie.)
Knowing that one day soon I will be sealed to my favorite husband and raising a brand new family that didn't exist before. To be able to nurture the greatest creations I will ever witness. Better than the I-phone 5. My kids will be AWESOME!
Being terrified to have such huge responsibility on my shoulders. (I saw a quote today that said, "Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide FOREVER to have your heart go walking around outside your body.")


I am officially in a much better mood. To be specific, thinking about the Lord and my future children makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. 

 Here is that Onion soup I made for dinner. =)

One more thing. I mentioned that Jacob got a promotion? Yes, that promotion is here. In Provo. So we will be staying a bit longer. we will wait until mid-March. We are still visiting MO and KS in December though. =) Yay!!! I LOVE Christmas. Can't wait to make Christmas Food!!!!! Kinda like the ones pictured below. ;)

Snow Cocoa

 This Roll Thing.

Oreo Coal, For the 'bad' kids. ;D