In Tuesday's class, we had a small writing session to get us started on our introduction to the Research Project. I started my introduction below before I got advice on other ways to start an introduction. This is a raw copy before editing. I put a smile on my face, and I’m always full of energy. I have three beautiful children. I travel every year a least four times. I drive a newer car, own my home, and have a good job. Life is good on the outside looking in. My friend thinks I'm so happy because I have all these things. Ture is told, I’m happy because all the struggles I endured in my life. At one point in time, I was homeless and unemployed all while raising two children at that time. I still put a smile on my face. I never changed because my bad times made my good times possible. Every day is not promised to us, so taking three good things that happen in a day was not hard for me too. I was able to see and appreciate the little things that made me happy in one day. I think everyone could benefit from the writing down three good things they appreciated about their day.
Introduction Prompt My children enjoy Halloween and so do I. Every year we normally have a party, but not this year because I'm in school. So, this year we are going to hand out candy. Along with have one friend come and watch Halloween movies.
“Help me with these bags,” I yell to my children as I enter the house. They jump off the coach run up to me and start pulling at my arms to grab the bags. They ask me what's in the bag and I tell them candy. “What’s all this candy for mom?” “It's for Halloween. We are going to fill up bags of candy to give them out to the trick-or-treaters and make Halloween baskets for your friends.” My children started to jump around with smiles on their face. I set up the table so that they can help me get the bags and basket together. Candy is spread out all over my dining room table. The kids set with their knee bent of the edge of the chair ready for me to direct them. I start handing them the trick-or-treaters bags and told them witch candy to put in the bags. As we bagged up the candy, we talked about the past Halloween parties I had. We laugh about all the games I made up. Their favorite game was bobbing for worms. I put gummy worms at the bottom of a bowl and filled the rest of the bowl up with whip cream. The rule was, you would have to dig in the bowl using only your mouth, pull all the worms out and place on a plate on the side of the bowl. The first one to get all the worms out won. That game was so messy, whip cream was everywhere. They continue to go around the table reflecting say, “mom do you remember.” Dropping one candy after another into the bag we were to finish up the bags. Moving along to the Halloween baskets my children switch gears with her conversation to which candy they’re going put in them. My oldest daughter does not like chocolate so she tells my other children they can have all the chocolate. My son tells them that he was all the Lemonheads. After they finish getting their baskets ready their faces are let up like fireworks on New Year’s for Halloween. My heart is filled with joy as I look at them with a half-smile. I enjoy hearing them talk about memories and how happy it made them. They don’t even know how happy these little things make me feel. I watch them talk, laugh, smile and chuckle as they go back and forth. Every second I look at them my stressors go down. I stop worrying about my unpaid bills, my mortgage needing to be refinanced, and the semester coming to the end. I immediately went to a positive place thinking about how some of the little things could change the way you feel. My mind was open to what really makes me happy in my life. These two past weeks has been full of information to get me started on my research project. I have learned so much in one week and it's sticking in my head. The way some of my professors teach I'm only able to retain the information given for the moment. As the semester comes to an end I have been so stressed and feeling low. I don't show it because I can't let stress get in the way of my goal to finish this semester with the highest grade I deserver. Doing last weeks blogs has helped me feel better about where I stand. I got the chance of digging into what really makes me happy.
This weeks blog will focus on 21 things that made me happy to appreciate my life better. You don't think about all small little things happening to you every day that makes you view life differently. Every day I wrote three things I appreciated every day and looking back I have found myself feeling happier about the hand the that was dealt with me. Tuesday
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