7th grade Mortification: Number 1

As your mom drops you off for school at your jr high, your five year old sister leans out the window and yells,

'did you zip up?'

raspberry art

Someday I will buy this wonderful wallpaper for my artistic raspberry, so she can happily decorate her walls and not my face.

Capitol Reef

We spent UEA at Capitol Reef with the Zeyer Family this past weekend
and had so much fun (despite the rock slide that took out our paint and the oil pan on the Zeyer's car).

We stayed in a little cabin in Teasdale, spent time with our favorite Zeyer family, climbed a mountain to see the arch and went on a lot of hikes. It was great fun.

The best part for me was hanging out with CC and raspberry 24-7 for three days.

I didn't think of work once. :)

Shopping with Raspberry 101.

1. Show her a rack of 20 coats in her size.
2. Walk past them like Vanna White, brushing your hand across the coats as you tell her about all the fun colors.
3. Announce how cute they all are and exclaim, 'won't it be fun to try them on'.
4. Suggest she try on the lavender, the light blue one and a couple of pink ones.
5. Watch as she walks over to the fushia puffy coat, takes it off the hanger, puts in on and pronounces that she is done shopping.
6. Be slightly depressed.
7. Be happy again and remember that there is still time to train her to be your shopping buddy when she is older.

Touch. Cry. Smile. Dance and Wink.

Our family 'happy' meter was running low this week. We had minor surgery on a neck and teeth, doctor visits, flu shots, tighting of braces & bands, too many needles, and stitches.

Luckily, we did have quite a few happifyers that helped us dump the 'blah' from this week.

Touch.
Sometimes you are made happy just by a loving touch.
Here are 3 scriptures on touch that I love. Found in Daniel. Dan. 10: 10, 16, 18
10 ¶ And, behold, an hand touched me, which set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands.
16 And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength.
18 Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me.


Cry:
Flu shots are no fun and are certainly not a happifyer, but...





Smile.
then you can go to Cold Stone to eat and laugh.
Ice cream brightens up any sad face.









Dance.
The first 7th grade dance! We practiced in the kitchen. He wouldn't take a picture practicing, but I did get a shy smile when I asked him if he was excited to go. He did dance and helped out a very cool DJ that happened to be a friend of mom's. 'That was awesome mom'!







Wink.
Sometimes all you need to happify your day is a wink and a great big beautiful smile.

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