Welcome to February. The month of hearts, love, groundhogs, presidents, and chocolate! Who would have imagined:)
Last Tuesday I promised a follow-up to my post regarding happiness. That post was about sabotaging our happiness and I wanted to offer a couple of ways to encourage, or foster, our happiness. However, in order to join this monthly link-up, I am reflecting on things “currently” in my life. The happiness encouragement will continue next Tuesday. For sure:)
That said, around here, I am currently:
LOVING – this weather! I am not usually one to chat/talk about the weather (it somehow seems lame to me) but I have to admit the weather genuinely affects me. My energy, my mood, my productivity, and my attitude. It’s no secret I don’t really like winter, but that is because I struggle with it. I suppose our feelings are mutual – winter does not like me either! But our winter lately has felt more like early spring. It has been wonderful – and I have felt all the better for it! Yesterday, I spent the day outside. In February. I know….amazing!!
EMBRACING – to be honest, not much. I almost deleted this prompt – ha. Let’s just say, I am not a hugger. Or an embracer. And for all you huggers out there…this might be a good time to rethink your personal boundaries. Just sayin:)
TASTING – chocolate – dark chocolate to be extra picky/specific – in just about anything. But, especially, in my morning mug. The valentine inspired coffee flavors lately have not disappointed. By the way, add a chocolate drizzled biscotti and life is just about perfect:)
WEARING – all the dresses. Have you noticed the popularity of dresses lately? Count me in. I love the convenience of dresses and the styles of late are super cute. But I usually think of dresses as warmer weather wear; however, there are plenty of long-sleeved and heavier material options now. I have added (more than just) a couple to my closet!
PREPARING – for the Valentine’s banquet (something ahead). The supplies have been bought and the plan is in place. I am excited to see it all come together next week. How do you plan to celebrate Valentine’s Day? I suppose it is a commercialized holiday – but, have fun, and use the excuse to share some love! And to eat all the (dark) chocolate!!
I agree, Valentines is just fun! And February really needs happy added sometimes. Lol.
I almost deleted the prompt wearing lol! I don’t really wear anything special, but I did finally come up with something. 🙂
Have a great one!
Hope you enjoy having fun with your valentines! It does add some happy to our usually frigid but rather mild this year February!:)
I have to admit the weather really does affect me also. I love blue skies and sunshine and won’t really complain when it’s hot. When those things are absent I’m really “blue”. I hope you have a fabulous Valentine’s Day!
Thanks much! Enjoy your “sweetest” day this month, too!!
Ha! I am with you n the personal boundaries. And on the weather affecting my mood. On a few levels it’s not great that we’ve not had much snow in my area of Michigan this year, but I can’t help but admit how nice the milder weather is for my mental state!
Thanks for stopping by, Anne. I really enjoyed the link-up…and meeting new bloggers!!
Some prompts really do trip me up! lol And oooh dark chocolate. Yum.
Dark chocolate lover for life:)
I was loving the weather over Christmas and even this past weekend, now we’ve got lots of snow. I’d love it if we had a bit of an early spring for real! I love dresses in the winter too!
Oh boy….lots of snow!! Hope it doesn’t last too long!! Here’s to an early spring:)
Hope you will share photos and details about your Valentine’s banquet at church. We went to a church hosted dance and dinner 2 years ago. Our church is very large and we don’t really know many folks there, so thought it would be a way to meet people. But everyone pretty much snuggled up with the ‘one who brought ’em’ and there wasn’t a lot of socializing among couples. Oh, well!! We had fun anyway.
I will try to get a photo or two. I’m terrible with remembering to do that….but thanks for the reminder:) However you celebrate this year – have a “sweet” time!!