52 Weeks of Happiness Week 38

This past week I had a burst of energy on Tuesday and got a ton of mundane things done. Laundry, dishwasher, cleaning, organizing, cooking, and the best part? Baking.

Betty Crocker has these mixes out right now in the holiday aisles at Target, and one was a Snickerdoodle mix. i was going to brave these anyway this year and make them, but I decided to go for the quick and easy mix, since it's still better than store-bought. They were delish!

52 Weeks of Happiness Week 37

A clean closet.

I have REALLY put off changing my closet over to cold weather clothes this year. And I just am HORRIBLE at putting away clean clothes. Laundry? No problem. Folding? I got it covered. But I hate putting away laundry!

Well, mother-in-law took our sweet toddler for most of the weekend and hubby and I have come leaps and bounds in the past 4 hours. He's cleaning out a back room to make into a play room, and I'm working on the tragedy that is my closet.

I wish I had a before shot, but this actually is pretty good for me:



Procrastination leads to dread, and I have procrastinated on this for over a month. So finally, hours of work are OVER and I have a nice, winter-ready closet!

Someday I will have a big enough closet that I won't have to go through all this. :)

52 Weeks of Happiness Week 36

I have had way too many other things on my mind other than my commitment to 52 weeks of happiness, but I'm here now!

This week, I'm proud to say I don't have a picture from this past week.

I was asleep.

I've had two weekends of company (great company, but still.), and it just takes extra energy. This past weekend, with the time change, my hubby gave me the gift of that extra hour of sleep. I really, really needed it. A lot of moms of toddlers and young children don't really get that extra hour of daylight savings time.

But my husband gave it to me. It was really, really necessary, and made me really, really happy.

52 Weeks of Happiness Week 35

Paul Simon.

Live.

It was AMAZING.

One of my all time favorites came to Memphis for his new tour, and even though it was 45 degrees, on the Mississippi River, in an OUTDOOR amphitheater, I simply just dressed appropriately and wasn't too cold.

Oh, it was magic!! Kodachrome, 50 ways, Graceland, Here Comes the Sun, The Only Living Boy in New York, Sound of Silence, and Mother and Child Reunion to name a few...

Incredible music. Incredible experience.

52 Weeks of Happiness Week 34

It's Tuesday. WAY late for the post, but I'm here.

I'm late because I haven't sat down to upload a picture for this week, so I'll publish this now, and stick a picture in later...

But for this week, it was organizing my hubby's 30th birthday weekend.

On Friday night, his best grad school friend came in from Chattanooga to visit. That was the biggest surprise of the weekend.

Saturday night was the big surprise party. We went to a new (to us) restaurant and had about 12 of his friends there. Balloons, a photo guest book, pictures spread all over the table from birth to a few months ago, a few presents here and there, the best cupcakes in Memphis, and lots of laughs.

It took up my whole week, and I loved every minute of it.



It's so easy to do something like that for someone you love so much.

52 Weeks of Happiness Week 33

Hubby was inspired by the cold weather and (finally!) a free Friday night for a date in-house.

He moved the TV outside, we made a fire in the fire pit, had a bottle of wine to share and pizza. We put on a scary movie - "Paranormal Activity" -- which was fine. Not too terribly scary (yay!) but enough to whet hubby's appetite for scary movies in October.

It was so much fun! Loved cuddling under 4, yes, 4 blankets.

52 Weeks of Happiness Week 32

This week's happiness is brought to you by a good ol' cup of tea.

A FUN cup of tea at that.

I LOVE tea. Iced, hot, green, black, white. Fruity, floral, spiced.

I dearly love Jasmine green tea, and this was given to me a while back from my in-laws. The tea starts out in tiny balls, as seen here...



and within about 5 minutes, expands to the freshest, most beautiful tea leaves you have ever seen in your life.



BLISS!!