My Joy Jar

I had so much fun doing something every week last year for my 50th birthday that I decided I wanted to something this year but of a different sort. I think the seed got planted when I was doing research for Gift Idea #49 – Memory Jar. One of the ideas was to put slips of paper in a jar as things you want to remember happen each day. The next piece came when I was listening to a talk by Dieter Uchtdorf called “Of Regrets and Resolutions” One of the things he suggests we decide our own happiness. And I believe he is right. I think these two ideas combined somewhere in my brain and the “Joy Jar” was born.

I took an old canning jar that I really like and added some ribbon and tags in the happy color, yellow. I also collected a bunch of yellow tags and pieces of card stock to write my joyful moments on. My plan is to post a list of my Joy Jar moments each week (hopefully on Saturdays) for the rest of the year. So here goes my first list:

bright sunshine
Yakira is in phase 6
seeing Zodaic and Kai romping through the snow in the backyard
Bill and Zodiac playing
taste of good ice cream
how good heat feels after being outside on a cold day
eating pomelo
Zodiac’s cute little face
99 countries visited my blog in 2012
a brand new year (2013)
eating Lindor chocolates
visual image of Lotus (a puppy in training) wearing ankle socks in pink and yellow because his raiser thinks his feet are cold
Zodiac’s joy
aurora borealis
thinking of our trip to Alaska
homemade pizza
being back inside our warm house
cuddling with our cat, Gandy
Tillamook yogurt for $.59 each
seeing Zodiac and Gandy looking out the window together, Gandy in his tower and Zodiac with his front feet on the bottom part of the tower and his body underneath.