I know, I was so excited for the kids to be back in school- and honestly, life is almost back to normal around the house. But, somedays, I cant believe how fast time flies- where did the summer go?! I read a quote a few weeks ago about days going by so slowly, but years going by so fast {I am paraphrasing here}- but its so true! When the kids where newborns and I was in that sleep deprived fog I would dream about the day when they could just sit and play and I did not have to eat again. But now, as I watch the kids run through my house, and talk about homework, and youtube, and where they want to go to college- I cant help but wonder how did all that just zoom by me- and I know I am not alone in that feeling!
\nIt seems that the daily monotony- packing lunches, folding laundry, cooking dinner, seems to be so circular in nature- but when I look back at summer, it seems that I blinked and all the vacations are done, and that the pools are closing up, and I am planning the last \u201cbeach weekend\u201d. These are the days that I feel like I need to sit back and relish in the small moments more often {If I only had a $1 for every time I thought that}! So, here is my first month of The Happiness Project- and its something I think I can actually stick to-<\/p>\n

Keeping life in persepctive- and enjoying all the SMALL things daily life has to offer<\/p>\n

You know what I mean- the knock knock jokes that your kids tell you {dont worry, I plan to share those next week}, the crazy desserts we create, even the messy rooms I have to clean {I am sure there are loads of \u201cempty nesters\u201d out there who wish they had a room to clean}. I am hoping to take the month of September and ENJOY the small stuff- and try not to sweat all that unimportant stuff too.\u00a0 Fall is the time for families, and adventures, and I am hoping to enjoy more of those!<\/p>\n

A final pic of summer, the kids at the pool enjoying some underwater photography- what a blast! I think it was the MOST fun I had all summer!<\/p>\n

I know, I was so excited for the kids to be back in school- and honestly, life is almost back to normal around the house. But, somedays, I cant believe how fast time flies- where did the summer go?! I read a quote a few weeks ago about days going by so slowly, but years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-because"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puresugarstudios.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puresugarstudios.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puresugarstudios.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puresugarstudios.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puresugarstudios.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.puresugarstudios.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puresugarstudios.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puresugarstudios.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puresugarstudios.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}