Loved the positive momentum from this little project of mine that I started 9/12/24
https://charmedandblessed.blogspot.com/2024/09/happiness-project-2024-100-days.html?m=1
I decided to keep this going and start a new batch of 100 + more happy days to bring into 2025.
Will pick up where I left off and take it day by day again.
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Day 1, 12/21/24: Today was what I would describe as our Super Bowl in that the annual collaborative toy drive with Believe Holy Spirit and Eden Youth Center took place.
We served over 500 families today and each child that came through came home 🏡 with a toy of their choosing.
It was a HUGE team and community effort in having so many toys to distribute and so many helping hands with big hearts who gave of their time today and throughout our toy drive events. THANK YOU to everyone who made this event as successful as it was. We appreciate each and every one of you 🤗
Struck up a nice friendship with a little girl named Kayley who last year loved 🥰 my elf 🧝♀️ hat so I gave her mine and bought another one. She came back this year, with her elf hat on and wanted to take a photo together 😍 Such a sweetheart 💗
Thank you Councilwoman Angela for supporting and coming out today as well. We appreciate all you do for our local community 🫶
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays friends. May God bless all of us, our homes, our communities, and our families
🙏🏽 🎄💗🌟
Day 2, 12/22/24: Workouts 💪 and shopping 🛍️ done today ✌️
Day 3,12/23/24: Gavin’s appetite is increasing significantly and so has his height and weight. At 14 years old he stands at 5’8 3/4. Gigi says all she sees me doing is cooking for him and I told her he’s going through a growth spurt and that I’ve seen this before when he was a baby. Big boy is getting bigger 💪
Rushed home 🏡 from the gym to make sure my growing boy is fed right 👍 Nothing beats home made💗
Gigi on her way to a Christmas 🎄 potluck and gift exchange with friends. She personalized this gift bag by adding printed sticker photos of her friends.
Day 4, 12/24/24: Started a new Teenage Christmas Eve morning🎄 tradition at our house 🏡 Home made breakfast of fresh biscuits, turkey, eggs, and of course, gravy to tie it all together. This year Gigi added to it and made chocolate 🍫 covered strawberries 🍓. After we eat they open presents at the table with their Christmas reindeer beanies that light up 🤓 It’s a beautiful 🤩 and simple tradition that can be added upon and made a little better each year. Fancy simple goes a long way 🌟 Happy Merry Christmas Eve friends 🥰 May God continue to bless us all 🙏🏽
Day 5, 12/25/24: Merry Christmas Everyone 🎄🌟🙏🏽❤️🎁 Wishing you all good health, joy, success today and in the New Year 🧚♀️🥰💫✨🫶.
Gigi and her friend Cordell have been accountability buddies making creative content everyday this whole winter break and she shared a very happy poem she wrote yesterday that she said I could share here. Love it 😍👏🫶🧚♀️
My teenagers appeased me and allowed me to dress them how I envisioned. Thanks guys, besitos 😘😘
My mom was in a smiley let’s-take-pics this holiday season (not her baseline behavior btw lol 😂.) It was very nice to see 😍
This pose turned out great because the boys put us together like this. Probably one of our best holiday pics 👏
Liz’s lemme-tickle-you-with-my-charm photographer skills 📸 really stepped up this year. She was very theatrical 🎭 and made us laugh 😂 even our mom.
It’s bout to go dowwwnnn
They grow so fast! I want to remember this 📸
Christmasing with the fam
Our theme this year was red or green. Check out the green 🌲 crew 🌟
Beautiful 🤩 Mamas and their new Babies
Cuzzoooos 🫶🫶
Stylish mama 💗
Got this let’s go dinosaur🦕 excavating kit and pretend we’re paleontologists for my nephew Lyle. My mission is to cultivate the nerdyliciousness 🤓 early 🤗 on. It was **work** digging while he’s practicing his fine motor skills and focus. He’s like auntie, I should not give up right?! Yes honey hard work is totally 💯 fun 🤩
Day 6, 12/26/24: Teaching this super intelligent and handsome puppy 🐶 how to be calm around squirrels 🐿️ in the backyard. This is new for him 🥰
Day 7, 12/27/24: I gotta give it up to our family’s personal shopper / stylist🎨🎭🖌️🖼️ 🛍️ for always upgrading us. I come into her styling parlor and come out a whole nother vibe. This black on black with gold zip down accent is a swanky Lululemon lounge fit from no other than my stylish Mama 🫶Dakal Salamat pu keng kalungtagan yu👗😘💗🌷🥰Buri ku pu ini a lot 😚🤓😎😉
Day 8,12/28/24: Good team hustle today 👍 Proud of our guys 🌟 Keep working 👏 🫶🏀⛹🏻❣️
Day 9,12/29/24: Happy 😊 Sunday 🌷Gigi and killed it at the gym today and she is getting some muscle 💪 gains because she’s been consistently working out for about two months now. Check it:
While she did her own thing I hit the bags for some boxing and a nice gentle man I met before left so I can work on two bags vs one. I usually like hitting all the bags but today was a weekend so I had to share 😝
After I did bag work I did a full body HIIT in the training area.
Afterwards, we had an impromptu Moms and Daughters hang out with Emma and her mom Amie who took us out to watch Moana 2. We had a blast and I L💗VED Moana 2 actually more than the first and can’t wait to watch it again❣️
Thank you Emma and Amie for such a fun girl’s outing❣️
Day 10,12/30/24: I want Gavin and his team to continue growing to become stronger, more cohesive, accurate, and consistently good basketball 🏀 players individually and together. The potential and the talent is definitely there❣️
Day 11,12/31/24: I listen to lectures throughout the day while doing low brain effort activities that require physical activity so that I can stay sharp because learning makes me really happy 😊✨💗🥳
Like just now, I had to stop what I was doing to research two words I'd never heard of that I learned from Dr. Orion Tariban.
He is one of my fave docs because the way he explains and executes his lessons is like that of a scientist (precise) and an actor (engaging) as he is theatrically trained. I find the execution of his content compelling, fun to listen to, and absorbable 👏🫶🤓👍
Here is the link of the episode that prompted this post and the two new words I learned from him are:
(1) "Lassitude," -noun and (2) "fungible," -adjective.
Let me apply my learning now by using them here so that I can make some more brain synapses that will create dopamine and make me smile 😃
Lassitude:
"In this last day of the year, I hope you leave behind states that debilitate you from moving forward, as this lassitude will not bring you closer to your goals."
Fungible
"May you have the kind of personality, work ethic, and personal affect that is not fungible as you are a compelling, beautiful, and competent human being that cannot easily be fungible."
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