Happy Today

I feel happy today. For the most part i am not an unhappy person. I like many things and I am easily pleased by a lot of simple things. Lately though there has been some stress in my life beyond the ordinary. Paul being laid off, Paul getting a job for 1/3 less salary, dentist trouble, trying to finish a house without spending any money, car dying, moving, to name a few. These things have been weighing on me even when I am not giving them direct attention. This excess seems to make it easier to let the little things get to me. So each day I work a little harder to maintain my floating boat and I have been getting a little tired lately. Then a week like this one happens. Okay there was one big hairy dentist appointment in it that I thought just might kill me and it wasn't even for me but after that the week has been day after day of good things. The pace has been incredible but I can take it if the rewards are equal to the stress.
Kieran went to competition in Utah with her Orchestra. They took first place in the orchestra division and first overall in the competition. Torin had a concert in the park. They were great. The weather was beautiful and the music took me back to my own band days. Brayden played in the high school orchestra concert and someone gave me an extra ticket wich was lucky cause it was sold out. Yes, they are that good and it was one little bit of heaven after the morning I spent crying in the dentist office. Kieran and Eavan had concerts the next night. Kieran looked like a dream and the middle school ochestra is worth a special trip just to hear them. Eavan was part of a fourth grade area choir concert and they sung some fun songs that I haven't heard in a long time. I had lunch with Eavan and it seems that kids have been giving me a little extra love here and there this week to top it all off . Today I just feel happy. All the burdens are still there but I don't feel them weighing on me as they did just last week. I hope spring has arrived where you are and brought you a happy day too.