Happiness Project

I've finally found something that interests me and gets me motivated to enjoy my own time doing it... reading.  Not a big surprise since I was a pretty big reader when I was younger.  The past couple years I've been directed (by our local librarians) toward romance novels.  They are wonderful reads- easy, fast, fairly short, and cut up a bit so it's not such a big deal to be interrupted.  But reading about these romantic men made me realized how far-fetched they are (I don't know too many men like the ones I've read of!), and that I wasn't sure I wanted to keep reading just romance books!
I saw something at the store with the movie The Help on it... I also saw it was a book.  So I checked it out from the library (yes, I'm too cheap to buy any books I'm not going to want to keep forever- and if you've seen our collection of books, you know I don't need to buy ANY books!).  It was an AWESOME read.  Lucky for me that I had 2 plane rides to get through it decently!
Another trip to the library produced a check out of the book called The Happiness Project.  (Click here to check out her blog.)  Another awesome read for me... since I sometimes feel like I need to find out what makes me 'happy.'  It looks like a fun thing to try out, but I don't know if I'm that ambitious!  Anyway, it gives lots of ideas to find yourself, have peace with what you are/do, and project that positive influence on others.  Actually, that is hardly a summarization of the book.  There's so much influence from what and who we are that affects others, especially our kids, that making sure it's positive is really something we should all want.  Sometimes I feel like I am constantly snapping at the boys, breaking up their "fighting," or anything else that's not positive.  So... now that I have someone else's happiness project success to read about, I think I'll give it a whirl.
Maybe that was my subconscious intention of naming my blog Happy Hoots?