Happy Blogiversary To Me!

1 year.

Kati teased that I would never lift-off,

but here I am, still typing away

like the crazy Blogger Mom that I am!

I'll celebrate with

something I read today in the book,

Eat Pray Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert

"...people universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you're fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it.

You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings.

And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don't you will leak away your innate contentment. It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments."

"The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world.

Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way.

You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else.

Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people." -pg. 260

(Eat Pray Love has some offensive language in it. I'm whiting-out for friends;)

Love you all. Thanks for the party!