Yesterday was my Mother’s birthday and we spoke on the phone last night for a good while. I was glad to hear that, by her account, she had an excellent day. She was showered with flowers and gifts and phone calls and treated to dinner then capped the festivities off with an actual snowball fight…which obvs…she won.

(breathes deeply)

She had an excellent day after many, many terrible ones…I can’t even begin to describe how happy it makes me feel that her birthday was such a good day and that she knows she is loved so very much by her family and friends. I’ll be thinking about that snowball fight every time I get a little down or frustrated this month. As 2016 winds down, we’ll need all the happy thoughts we can get – of that I’m quite sure.

What’s your happy thought?