Oh HAPPY Day!

I have learned over the years that when life just seems to be, well, crappy there's always something to be happy about.  Sometimes we have to look really, really hard but happy things are there.  So look around, what makes you happy?

I'm so happy because I just had lunch today with two of my favorite people in the world.  There's nothing like chilling with friends over great food.  I was introduced to a new restaurant and that makes me happy too!  Oh this place had the BEST desserts too!  Heaven I tell you, heaven.  

Playing with my kids makes me all kids of happy!  I just got done playing with my 4 year old in his room.  We played basketball and he showed me all kinds of crazy moves!  I think we have a little sports star in the making. 

Rain makes me happy.  I don't care that I just washed my car yesterday.  I want it to rain so much we have some puddles to jump in.  So come on skies, open up!

What could make a wife happier than seeing her husband surprise her by mopping the floor?  Thanks honey!  You have NO idea how happy that made me!


I love to read a good book.  It's been a while since I've read a book that I truly can't put down.  You know the kind where you can't wait to climb in bed so you can read and that's all you think about?  Ok, it might just be me but I'm finally reading an amazingly good book and that makes me all kids of HAPPY!!

OK...time to go read my book!  Have a great week! 

Book Review: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - 4 Stars!

I just finished the most wonderful book.  This book is a good, clean read.  I fell in love with the characters in this book, they are well developed and the plot is excellent. 

It is a story about a young Chinese boy who befriends a Japanese girl right as WWII is breaking out.  Keiko and her family are eventually sent away to internment camps and she and Henry are left only with the hope that the war will end and that promises will be kept.

"Jamie Ford's first novel explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle area during WWII, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love.  An impressive, bitter and sweet debut." - Lisa See

This book by Jamie Ford is perfect for book clubs too.  I loved it.  I think I'll start a book club with this being the first book!  Who's in? 

**The language is clean.  Minimal violence - bullying and War.  No sexual content at all, unless you count 2 little pecks as such.