The Little Things

Good Morning!

After a grueling couple of weeks full of challenges and small victories, I just wanted to take time out to tell you what keeps me moving forward.  (drumroll....  I know your on the edge of your seat....LOL)   Instead of just saying it, I'll tell you a story.

I have a good friend (James R Davis) who is also my business mentor and someone that has given me lots of great advice and encouragement over the last 4 years.  Often I log in to my facebook account and am immediately motivated by one of his posts, business and personal.  Jokingly I refer to this as my daily dose of "vitamin J".  So this morning, I wanted to show a little appreciation for my "vitamin J" for the day and I acknowledged the roll he was on with his posts and told him in so many words, "I'm looking forward to a time that I can feed into you as much as you feed into me".  His response "you already do, you just don't know it"...

AWESOME!  This is someone that I truly admire and look to for encouragement and wisdom telling me that I do some of those same things for him.  That definitely put a smile on my face.  This small gesture of shared gratitude that lets me know, no matter how messy or difficult this life has become or can be, there is a much larger purpose that we are walking in.  So, on a day like yesterday.... I'm getting by on "The Little Things". 


Some of my Little Things this week:

There are the biggest most vibrant roses growing in front of my parents house, and walking past them reminds me of all the times as a child I would make "perfume" with the petals and a little water.  They remind me of the awesome hair accessories that I saw on the website for "Flowers from Fatima" just the other day.

I cut my son's hair into a near perfect Mo-Hawk for his football pictures, and he loved it :-)

I keep finding amazing things on Pinterest (of course) that I want to do for my kids.

I've been drinking tons of water and my skin looks GREAT! always awesome.

Fall officially starts tomorrow and the leaves on the trees are slowly begining to turn, I love watching the transition.

I get to cuddle with the cutest and wildest sleeping 1 year old every day, mommy time can be tough but it's awesome too!

I could go on and on... my point is just that I've found  reasons to smile everyday.  Like a friend of mine recently said, it's a choice to be happy, there are a million excuses that we can make for why things are miserable.  Why not choose joy over sadness...

Maybe it's time to start listing out your little things. 
Bye ~ For Now