Here is a great place to put our ideas of happy things we do for ourselves and to get ideas from everyone else...

I keep a list of things I love... but my fave..

- Give yourself a pedicure- Start by removing old polish and trim your nails and cuticles, then soak your feet in hot soapy water. Then take your favorite smelling lotion and apply it more than generously to your feet. Slather that stuff on to the point you can't rub it all in. Put your favorite warm snuggly socks on over the lotion and relax and read or come here and type. After a bit, you can take the socks off, rub the rest of the lotion in if needed and paint your toenails.

Other ideas that I use...

- Read (I read SARK) www.campsark.com
- Sing
- Go swimming - I wrote this in another post, but it's what the experts say to do for any crabby child... put them in water.
- Go bowling
- Lay down and imagine you are taking an elevator down to your own secret hideaway. Put guards at the elevator door so you won't be disturbed. Mine is a garden complete with waterfalls, butterflies, dragonflies, birds and flowers and plants in every variety I can imagine. I just sit and take everything in.

And my most strange I suppose but it always works...
- Plan a vacation. Pick your destination first. Then start looking up airfares for a year from now (or next summer or whatever). Write down what everything costs right at this moment. Pick a few hotels. Will you rent a car or take your own? Will you fly or drive? What will you do while you are there? Will you take anyone with you? Visit family along the way?

My husband and I are planning a Grand Slam Tour to surprise our boys with. 12 days, 4 cities, 6 baseball games (if we can get them to all line up). We may take this trip next summer. It might have to wait until next summer. Either way it will eventually happen. And we have the fun of watching for sales, getting ideas, scouring the net for great hotels. It gives me butterflies to think about it.

What do you do???