Happy, positive, grateful - what do all of these words mean? For a while now, I feel like I have surrounded myself with people who do not embody these qualities. I also feel like I've been a willing contributor to sadness, negativism, and complaining myself. Negativity is draining and contagious. I've tried many things to attain happiness, to become more positive about life, and to be grateful for things just the way they are, but a permanent feeling of contentment is so elusive to me.
I'm starting this blog as en effort to focus at least once a day on a positive aspect of my life. I'm not a writer by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm hoping that by writing about the good stuff, the things that make me smile, the things that propel me forward that I will inspire at least myself and maybe someone else along the way.
So...to get to today's happy thought. I'm grateful for sweet potatoes. Yes, sweet potatoes. My mom gave me about eight of them a couple weeks ago and I have been watching two of them sprout away. It was now or never. So, I pulled out the crock pot, chopped, and washed them up, put some sugar, cinnamon, butter, nutmeg and vanilla on them and cranked her up.
I love the smell of anything cooking, baking, or simmering that has the combination of sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, butter and vanilla!
So the part I'm grateful about is the fact that I have so many sweet potatoes to cook. The crux of this feeling of gratitude is not just about sweet potatoes, but food in general. I'm grateful to have enough food to fill the bellies of my family and enough to share with someone else. And, that's my grateful, positive, happy thought of the day.
