Everyday Live Happy

Okay I am not the typical girl.  I love watching movies with my family.  I will watch kids movies, chick flicks, comedies and action movies.  Not only will I watch them, but I really enjoy them.  This week I watched "Ella Enchanted" with my 9 year old and "The Avengers" twice with my husband.  No chick flicks there.  We actually own a ton of movies.  Way more than we should.  Most of those movies are kids or action movies.  Only some of them are chick flicks.  Also I don't really like dramatic chick flicks.  I prefer funny or light-hearted ones.  I also don't like scary movies or gory ones.  I prefer action movies that are funny.  But we do have some that aren't and I still like those.  I guess you could say that my taste in movies is eclectic.  It's the same with the music that I like.  I like what I like and that makes me happy.

When I was a senior in high school I took a personal management class that required that I had a day planner.  So I ordered a Franklin planner to use for my class.  Since I'm a list maker it made sense for me to continue to use one after the class was over.  For years I purchased a new planner filler to use for the coming year.  Sometimes I would buy a new binder or change the background style of my planner but my planner always came from Franklin Covey.  I had used it and it worked.  I didn't use all of the pages and didn't do all of the goal and project pages, but for my daily list it worked really well.  A few years ago though I decided that I wasn't using it enough to justify the expense.  I had started to not use lists quite as much and I would go days without even opening it.  And I was okay with that.  Well I was until recently when we had so many things to deep track of that I was forgeting things.  (Nothing like paying for dance lessons when your daughter misse

My family makes me absolutely happy.  I have the best husband and kids.  We are kind of a silly family.  We love to laugh and tease each other.  I grew up in a wonderful, normal family, so I'm really not sure how our parenting style came from.  We love to play and tease our kids and each other.  It's not mean teasing, it's nice and fun teasing.  The other day my son had been on the xbox for a while so I decided to bug him.  I kept dancing in front of the TV and blocking his view.  He kept laughing, but continued to play.  So I decided to take drastic measures!  I sat next to him on the couch and immediately started squishing him.  He kept laughing and talking to his friend on his headset.  I just kept teasing him and squishing him.  He as still laughing as he said to his friend, "I love my family!"  It was the best!  We are lucky because we have great relationships with all of our kids.  That must continue and our ability to tease and have fun together will.  My f

I think it's because I'm a list kind of girl.  I love lists - making them, checking things off, etc.  So I guess making resolutions or goals at New Years is my idea of fun.  Now in the past I've made huge lists of things that I wanted to accomplish in the coming year.  Obviously, those lists never got completed.  Too much to try to do.  One of the hardest things is to remember your goals and if you have a huge list that becomes too hard.  So I've evolved I guess because my resolution lists aren't that long any more.  This year I have about 5 of them.  Still a sizeable list, but so much better than my lists with more than 30 things to do.  This year my main goal, like so many other people, is to get fit.  I believe a goal needs to be specific.  You need to be able to measure it.  So I'm not just wanting to eat better, I have an actual number of pounds that I want to lose. Now I'm sure you are all nice, wonderful people, but I will not share the actual numbe