The Happiness Project :: King of the Castle

Over the years we've kept Griffin's toys

so that Koen could play with them

once his brother outgrew them.

Add that to Koen's own collection

and we have a massive amount of 

castles, batman stuff, and pirate ships.

Koen will drag them all out

and form a village out of them.

He'll play for hours, slaying dragons,

fighting off the evil ogre, 

finding pirate treasure.

I love these simple moments.

When I can hardly walk through the living room

because his imaginative play has taken over.

When the house is messy.

I love hearing the fake explosions and wars waged.

I'm treasuring the time of innocence

 that comes with having a 5-year-old.

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The Happiness Project :: The perfect little bookcase

My mom gave me this adorable thrifted bookcase recently

and it makes me super happy.

I'm like a dragon by nature

in that I like to pile up all my creative stuff

and sit amongst it,

like gold in a lair.

I realize I sound slightly crazy here.

It's true, though.

I'm one of those messy creative types

that loves junk all around me.

BUT the situation with my books

was getting way out of hand.

I had to wade through a big ol' stack

to get to my desk.

So, my mom found a place to hold

my resource books and inspiration books

and journals and stuff.

It fits perfectly next to my writing space

and everything is within reach.

It's been so nice to have a little orginization

and I feel much more clear headed

than I thought I would.

It's the little things, people.

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The Happiness Project :: A New Year

So I have a hundred gazillion pictures

from our holidays that I could share with y'all

but it seems like ages ago and I'm 

all about moving forward.

So, happy new year!

Not only is this time of year for a fresh start

but I'm feeling energized and ready.

Ready to get this novel published,

(behind the scenes things are happening, I swear).

I'm ready to lose 500 pounds

and have a perfectly clean house.

I'm ready to blog twice day, every day this year.

Okay, most of that won't happen

but I like the possibility of it all.

I'll do my best to meet you here 

on Tuesdays to keep the Happiness Project going

and I miss having this space to document life with my boys

so I'll try to pop in more with photos of our adventures

and not so adventures of everyday life.

Happy 2015.

Let's make it the best one yet!

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Want to join me in my quest

to scout out happiness in our lives?

Simply post a photo of something that
makes you wildly happy and tell us all about it.