My happiness

My husband has always told me I have a beautiful smile. Maybe he doesn’t realize that he is the one who makes me smile that way.

On Saturday he wanted “my help” to set up and test his broadcast gear for the upcoming University of Montana football broadcasts. Let me tell you, he didn’t need my help. Sure I carried the little table and I might have held a cord or two but I mostly cracked inappropriate jokes and took a selfie or two. It was just fun to be with him, doing something that he is passionate about and laughing with him. My smile was because I’m always laughing when I’m with him. The smile he loves is a natural and effortless reaction to time in his company.

Denny and I didn’t necessarily have the most conventional of love stories but a love story it is. There is an age difference between us that raises the eyes of people who just meet us but when you spend anytime with us you forget he is a bit older than me and just enjoy being in his company. He is an amazingly funny and generous man. He gets my silliness and tolerates that my humor is sometimes that of a 13 year old boy. His wit is razor sharp and spot on but never mean. He makes every day better, even the ones where I’m as bitchy or cranky as they come. He may not enjoy being part of a “selfie” with me but he always takes one. Even the one below that he took with me at our first concert out at a local amphitheatre to see the B-52’s in concert. (Sorry it’s so blurry, it was dark and I probably need a better phone 🙂 )

It’s a little fuzzy but see that smile on my face? it’s because I’m with him. The B-52’s might not have rocked Love Shack the way they used to but we didn’t care.

When I say I’m happy, it’s in major part because I have my husband by my side. No, a person can’t be responsible for your happiness, but they can enhance it and add to fluffy clouds, unicorns and rainbows that float around to your happiness. I’m sure he will have something quite funny to say he when reads that line, because he does read my blogs. Well here you go babe you make my happy days better with your fluffy cloud, rainbow blowing unicorn machine 🙂 and you make the bad, sad and ugly days brighter too.

Happiness is something you have to work for each and every day. It’s letting things go, being kind, and letting love in all shapes and forms into your life. I work on happiness every day. Sometimes I succeed by a 175%, days like yesterday are an example. Sometimes I fall far short of my goal and give into the ugliness inside of me. I will say those ugly days don’t happen very often to which I feel grateful and lucky.  I try to live a better life by sharing my happiness and trying to let go of the bad. So I’m sharing some of my happiness and giving credit for yesterday to Denny, that smile was for you my sweet husband.♥