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The Happiness Project-Week Forty-Three

I’m taking an anatomy class right now.  That class is SERIOUSLY painful.  It’s so interesting, but I really have to work to succeed at it.  Missing a class is not an option for me.  Taking time off for...

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The Happiness Project – Week Forty-Four

I had to make a quick dash into the grocery store on Halloween to buy some dry ice.  On my way in, I noticed the bin for the Utah Food Bank near the cash registers.  Thinking this could be easy, I...

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The Happiness Project – Week Forty-Five

There’s been a lot of press lately (as there should be) about Hurricane Sandy.  I watched coverage of when it made land and watched in complete awe as it just washed over so much!  It made me so sad...

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The Happiness Project – Week Forty-Six

This past month, I’ve read two books back to back about the Rwandan genocide.  It was a lot to process.  Both books were amazing and touched my heart.   The first was “An Ordinary Man” by Paul...

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The Happiness Project – Week Forty-Seven

It’s that time of the year, where every commercial on television has something somebody wants.  My kids love getting the mail so they can look at the ads.  “I want this”…”I want that”…, you get the...

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The Happiness Project – Week Forty-Eight

Last weekend, my sister-in-law invited us to come with her family to see the Festival of Trees.   It’s a really amazing experience and one I love to take my kids to.  People decorate trees in memory of...

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The Happiness Project – Week Fifty

At the risk of sounding like Buddy the Elf, we decided to spread some Christmas cheer.  We made peppermint chocolate-covered popcorn and delivered it around the neighborhood.  It is something we love...

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The Happiness Project – Week Fifty-One

I know that I already did “shovel snow” earlier in the year, but this week with Christmas and traveling, what I had planned just didn’t happen.  Additionally, we have had a bunch of snow this week and...

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The Happiness Project – Week Fifty-Two

I made it!  I seriously made it through an entire year of random acts of kindness!  This week was one of my favorites too.  I’ve loved the idea of literally paying it forward, i.e. leave extra money at...

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My Happiness Project Wrap-Up…Why Kindness Matters

My Project for 2012 was entitled “The Happiness Project,” but it was really a year of random acts of kindness (RAOK). So, why the “Happiness” title?  Simple, I was hypothesizing that performing random...

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