I’ve been doing alot of research into positive mindset and living in a place of abundance. It’s been a slow process to actually implement the ideas I’m learning about. Recently, I’ve felt the shift though. The tables are turning toward gratitude and happiness. Today is a perfect example.

Today is a great day. It’s a rainy, dreary day, but we are having such a great day. Eli woke up and immediately said that he can’t wait to go camping again one day. Finn woke up singing his version of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. It is music class day so we had to get going pretty quickly, but it went so smoothly. It was a small class and we were able to have some more genuine, personal talks. Their teacher is so kind and always has sweet remarks on our boys, but it turns out we also have some other things in common. I left thinking how incredible it was to have such a genuine person in our lives.

Our next stop was supposed to be the Farmer’s Market if it quit raining. It actually started raining harder so I thought we would skip it, but we’d drive by to see how many vendors were there since it’s still early in the season. Well, I bumped a trash can with my mirror on a narrow street and had to pull in so I could fix it. We sat there in the rain, scanning the booths, and I thought “Let’s just go. Let’s just have fun. It’s only rain.” My favorite booth was there with their first crop of spinach, so immediately I was excited. I had 3 people that I hadn’t seen since last summer stop me to say that I “looked great”. Listen, I haven’t had a shower since Sunday. It is now Wednesday. I have on zero makeup. We’ve been rained on, heavily. I have a toddler strapped in a carrier on my chest. There is no way that I look at all “great” in the typical sense of the word, which I think of as “put together”.

I can only imagine that I must look HAPPY and REFRESHED. By refreshed I do not mean well rested because that is definitely not how I feel. I am referring to my mindset. I am changing my outlook to the positive. The kids had fun. We talked to several people who we had not seen since the Fall. We bought delicious, fresh strawberries, spinach, and lettuce. Oh and the doughnut line was practically nonexistent since the rain was so hard. We rarely buy them because it’s easily 20 people long in the summer. So we got an extra treat. Oh and there was a huge rainbow when we got home. Everyday can’t be the BEST day, but it can certainly still be great.

Every day can't be the BEST day, but it can certainly still be great.