Positive Energy Thread

[ChristineLS]

So the world kind of sucks, but not completely. I was inspired by Whitewater (no surprise here!) when she suggested a forum of positive things, like there is for vents and negativity, to start a thread for nothing but happy stuff that we see or do.

I'll start.

I was with my mom, who has braces, at the orthodontist's. While she was having her appointment, a woman with a 13 year old girl, what looked like an 11 year old boy, and twin infant boys walk in. She was remarkably calm considering the large brood. She holds one of the kids and gets the paperwork taken care of, the girl goes to her appointment, the other kid makes eye contact with me so I smile and make faces. I talk to strangers, so I told her that "her sons" were gorgeous and asked how old they were. Beaming, she replies that they aren't her sons, but her nephews, and they are 3 months old, Joey and Julian. To make conversation, I said, "they must be a handful" and she replied that they weren't, they'd gotten easier and that it surprised her. It sounded like she had custody of them, as she spoke of them with the same love and involvement that mothers generally do.

So after the chit chat I get back to reading my book, but I got distracted watching the boy hold one of the infants with such tenderness and love, kissing the baby repeatedly and telling him what a wonderful baby he was. This boy looked like nothing else in the world could have made him happier than to be holding little Julian in his arms. The joy in both of their faces made my heart melt. Turns out, he was only 8. He left after knocking something over and I told the woman that I was so surprised that he was so wonderful with the kids! He's so young! And again, she beamed and said that was part of the reason that it wasn't so hard to take care of the twins, that her nephew (8 year old) was so good with the kids, and that her daughter was also equally involved. That her 8 year old son is counting down the days he can play football with them, but that her 8 year old nephew was so happy to be with the babies as babies. I said that he'd make a great father some day, she replies "That's what we tell him!"

These were kids who didn't have an attitude, a surprisingly calm woman who clearly has a large charge, and just the amount of joy that eminanted from me really warmed my heart. And I was already happy from being able to spend time with my mom! Those are a pair of really lucky twins.

OK, your turn :)

[WebLady]

Always nice to see well behaved kids, especially in public!

I don't really have anything like that to share, but I like the idea of an ongoing positive/uplifting/inspiring thread :)

Edit: I did see this really sweet looking older couple (60-70'ish I guess) shopping together at the grocery store the other day. They just looked like they were in love and happy and I they made me smile :)

[savepaws]

Ooh I love this thread! Every Monday on a local radio show, they have people call in with good news because usually all you hear is the bad news.

My good news is that I found my rehearsal dinner dress and saved $40 on it. I know its not a very enlightening story but it makes me happy because I had no clue what I was going to wear. :)

[Whitewater]

I have some GREAT NEWS TO SHARE!!!

Fiance got home from going out with his mom today to tell me that she's offered -- all off her own bat -- to pay for our rehearsal dinner!!!

AND she's giving us FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS as a wedding present on the day of the wedding.

Holy cats. I couldn't believe it when Fiance told me this, I was just floored. Really stunned.

My immediate reaction was to grovel (virtually) before her and buy her a Edible Arrangement bouquet out of sheer gratitude. I wasn't there for this amazing announcement (I've been having bad stomach issues, so couldn't go out to dinner tonight), but I'm going to grovel nevertheless, via snailmailing a thank-you note and whatever else I can think of.

She didn't have to do any of this and we never expected anything from her except her love.

So, she's cooking a 15 pound turkey AND buying a fruit tray and a veggie tray, she's helping with the flowers on the day, and NOW she's paying for the rehearsal dinner and giving us a handsome wedding gift.

And all we asked her to do was help with the flowers.

I love my mother-in-law!!!


Whitewater

[Nekochanpurr]

Aww, this thread is wonderful. :)

I don't have much here.. But i'm sure i will eventually. haha

[savepaws]

That's awesome Whitewater! That is so nice of her to help out! :)

My happy news for today is...I'm getting the "bachelorette" party I wanted! In our group, I'm friends with all the guys and the girls & the night of barhopping with just the girls trying to get guys to buy me drinks and "suck for a buck" didn't sound like that much fun to me.

So FH and I talked about it and decided we wanted one big shindig for our bachelor/bachelorette parties since ALL of our friends would be in town that day. Neither one of us care about having one last wild and crazy night out....we just aren't those kind of people. We were afraid to approach our MOH & BM about it...we figured they would make a big deal about letting guys & girls be together. But FH pretty much just let them know thats what we are doing & they seem fine with it!!! :)

The guys are still going to do their traditional "boys only" golfing during the day. And in the evening we will all meet out at FH's parents out and we are going to grill out, maybe build a bonfire or maybe hit the bars if we feel like it. I think it'll be fun having everyone together again...its probably been over a year since we've ALL hung out together.

Yay!!! It is such a relief to be doing what WE want to do instead of what the tradition calls for (because I've never been a fan of bachelorette parties in general).

[Jenkel]

My happy day was actually 2 days ago, but I just came across this thread so I must share..

My FH's 9 year old son came up to me, while we were at his older brother's baseball game, and gave me a huge hug. He had a HUGE smile (which is so cute with his little dimples) and I said "Uh-Oh what did you do??" LOL....he just hugged me again and said "you know what? You are going to be my most favorite step mom EVER!!" (of course I'm his ONLY step mom ever..)
Is that not the cutest thing you have ever heard??? :innocent:
Talk about a Heart melting moment!! I love that little guy so much!

I just had to share it with all of you.

[Nekochanpurr]

My happy day was actually 2 days ago, but I just came across this thread so I must share..

My FH's 9 year old son came up to me, while we were at his older brother's baseball game, and gave me a huge hug. He had a HUGE smile (which is so cute with his little dimples) and I said "Uh-Oh what did you do??" LOL....he just hugged me again and said "you know what? You are going to be my most favorite step mom EVER!!" (of course I'm his ONLY step mom ever..)
Is that not the cutest thing you have ever heard??? :innocent:
Talk about a Heart melting moment!! I love that little guy so much!

I just had to share it with all of you.


That is just too freaking cute!

[lilmsjess]

well, this thread hasn't been touched in awhile, so i thought i'd share....

it struck me the other night, at my sisters graduation, that no matter our age difference, and the time, the same thing happens: when i left middle school, we all cried, hugged and said we'd see you next year(knowing full well we'd see each other the next day lol)....

well, my sister and her friends, have literally been friends, since kindergarten...and they're all standing there, telling each other i love you, i'll miss you, we have to grow up(LOL-Reallllly? now? haha)...and it just amazes me, and i'm somewhat jealous, that in all the troubles of today, those 5 girl's biggest concerns were making it through high school together, all 5 of them, just as they have the last 8 years...

it's not so much uplifting...it's more "wonder" and amazement...how wonderful it is, that your biggest concern, is trying out for cheerleading, or hoping that since you're in high school, the popular guy might like you...heck, i've lost my train of thought, i'm watching penny dreadful, and i'm off to bed....if i figure out exactly what i was saying, i'll finish later :rolleyes:

as for older couples, the other day in walmart, this old couple, both in electric chairs, were arguing over SALAD, and it was so cute....and she finally taps her little handlebars, and nips her lips and says, "i've been telling you for 56 years that i HATE artichokes, yet you INSIST on buying salads with them! now you know, why i never eat salad! i don't dislike it, i HATE artichokes"....:rofl: again, read above...their biggest concern in that moment, was artichoke hearts.....

[hleef]

i hope no one minds me resurecting this thread!

I guess mu good news starts out as bad a turns to good.... but yesterday i woke up with a bad headach and i wasnt in a good mood but i wasnt in a bad mood... so i went to work and eventually i cheered up. When my manager went to lunch ill tell you someone must have peed in his cheeros cause he started yelling at me and Gina for nothing about stuff that was no big deal. So i was in a bad mood at this point..

I emailed FH and told him a lil about it and when he came home he said lets go out to dinner and we went to this place called hilltop that has a all you can eat crabs (blue crabs and snow crabs) when he told me this i was:ura1:it was nice and relaxing to have dinner with just me and FH and come home and have a little cuddle time before bed...:cloud9:

i love him:hearts:

[sandra]

Mine is that every Sunday we go to 9AM mass then come home and make a picnic lunch to bring to the pool. My wife, two year old daughter, my five month old son, and I, swim, laugh, eat, and drink for a solid two hours, then go home and take a nap (sometimes mom and dad too, but mostly the kids), then we fire up the BBQ for dinner. I look forward to this all week long. As the fall approaches we will have to think of a new place to bring the picnic http://pics3.city-data.com/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif maybe start checking out our beautiful parks.

[Spatch4Officers]

I like the fact this thread has been brought back to life - we could all use a little positivity in our lives.

Mine I guess would be making my niece laugh the other day - she always brings such joy to my life, I never thought that this time a year ago I'd be saying this but I'm so thankful that my sister lives with us and that I get to spend quality time with my niece pretty much any time I want to!

[Jacklynn]

I'm so thankful that someone from the church gave us a push mower so we could stop borrowing the neighbor's. He said he didn't want $$ for it and I asked him if he was sure he didn't even want like $25 for it... his reply, "Nope, just one day when you are able to help someone out, do it."

[WebLady]

The biggest positive influences in my life are my husband and my faith ... without either I think I would go insane.

Today I am happy to be spending the day with hubby, even if we are doing other things right now ;)

[Nekochanpurr]

Going on a double date. *^^* Its the little things.

[DanDanNoodleBowl]

Shane took me on a nice date last night to Red Lobster ( even though he hates it, lol) and took me to see Friends with Benefits :D

[Runner4Ever]

I realized yesterday that I need to start being more grateful for the amazing life I've got.. I have an amazing, beautiful girl who I want to marry, a lot of good friends, and a lot of other positive stuff going on.

I hope when you all have a bad day, and you get down on yourself, that you'll just think about how good you really have it. Think about what you're grateful for, and the bad stuff just goes away :)