Happiness

I feel like I might be one of the lucky ones that has figured out the secret to being truly happy in life.  That's not to say that I don't have moments that are rough or times that I feel like I have more on my plate than I can handle but at the end of the day, when I lay down to go to sleep, I can honestly saw without a doubt that I am happy.  I have really been enjoying my weekends lately.  I am getting so much stuff done and spending a ton of time playing with Alexis.  Today was a killer day- lots of yardwork.  Since I have Alexis most of the time, I have been focusing on the backyard so far.  We have a lot of her toys out there and she loves to run around in the grass.  Unfortunately, that also limits what I can do outside.  Today I was able to cut off the vine growing on my fence from my neighbor's yard, cut down the mini trees growing in the planters in the back, trimmed the willow tree up as high as I could reach, cleaned up way too much dog poop, raked the leaves, pine cones, and pine needles in the back part of my yard and got almost all of it bagged up.  It turns out I am actually kind of good at yard work.  am looking forward to this year and seeing all the things I can do with the yard.  So far it seems that I have won against the woodpeckers.  Now I am battling the wasps- they are all over my yard.  I bought a deluxe wasp trap but so far only one has died in there.  In addition to the outside projects, I have a giant list of things I want to get done inside.  I am trying to break things up over a three year plan so that I don't get overwhelmed with what I want to do and so I don't go broke trying to do everything right away.  This summer I want to finish painting the rooms, actually decorate the rooms, and install ceiling fans in mine and Lexi's bedrooms.
I really, really, really want to get new living room furniture.  I found the set that I want and it is a reasonable price.  I just wish the part of me that knows it is not logical to get a full new living room set would take a break from being logical so I could get it.  I need something downstairs to sit on so I figure I could move the furniture that is in the living room down to the family room and then get the new furniture.  Instead, since I do not forsee my logic leaving me anytime soon, I am going to leave the furniture upstairs as it is and just buy a futon for the family room downstairs.  That way, when it is really hot in the house, Alexis and I can just sleep downstairs in the super cool family room instead of the hot upstairs.  I think that might be more comfortable than sleeping on an air mattress for the summer. 
I am really looking forward to summer this year and have some great fun things on my list too.  I am going to take one day at a time, remember to appreciate each day and everything it brings me, and be happy :)