Remember that being happy is all in the mind and isn’t based on life being perfect or the circumstance being ‘just right.’ You can choose to be happy and positive today. The wonderful reward in this is that when you choose to be happy, you’ll begin to see more rainbows of happiness in your life.

Okay…so how many happy, happy, joy, joy dances do I do a day?  Too many too count! LOL  A lot of them happen within my mind but sometimes my feet just can’t stop like yesterday.

I took Mom and the girls to town for Mom’s checkup.  First of all it isn’t the most happy place in the world to go to.  It is in the cancer division of the doctor offices and there are many sick people there.  They have coffee, tea, and soup for anyone who may want it.  There are puzzles in the waiting room and people there to help anyone needing assistance.  Mom is feeling fantastic and my oldest daughter, Peanut, Mom, and I were feeling so much appreciation for our health as we sat and watched others.

Peanut was doing her normal thing when she’s around sick people. She looks at someone and then closes her eyes.  I never ask but I know she’s sending them good thoughts and love. I keep Mom busy with ‘busy’ talk since she gets extremely nervous going to the doctor, and my oldest daughter takes charge. She wanted to do something so she went up to the nurses desk and asked where she could donate handmade quilts for cancer patients.  Even amid all the pain I was doing a happy dance within my mind to see that my girls were so compassionate.

So we get into the doctor’s office and Mom and I wait for almost an hour and a half but instead of getting upset we know that her doctor is giving time to someone who is very ill so we sit and chat as Mom dangles her legs off the exam table with her little paper drape on. Her doctor comes in and apologizes. Mom ‘shuts her down’ and tells her, “Don’t you worry. You have sick people to take care of.  Not people like me!” Her doctor smiled, did her exam, and we were out in five minutes.  I’m still tap dancing in my mind. Mom is cancer free.  WONDERFUL!

We go to the Olive Garden and wait for a table. The music is really ‘poppy’ and definitely worth a happy, happy, joy, joy dance. I keep as still as I can but as we wait my feet start tapping and my behind is trying not to wiggle…well dance wiggle I mean…it wiggles no matter what I do! LOL  My oldest daughter saw the look in my eyes. She says, “Mom, now is not the place.” But she is smiling, knowing full well it means nothing to me. She begins to tap her feet and gives in. Peanut rolls her eyes and Mom heads into the bathroom.  My daughter and I grin at one another and can’t contain it.

Yes… We smiled, wiggled, giggled, and did the happy, happy, joy, joy dance to the delight of everyone else waiting.  It wasn’t for them.  I am the last person on earth to draw attention to myself but the joy, the joy of my family, the joy of the wonderful news, the joy of ‘being,’ the JOY sometimes just needs a dance.  :)

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