Smile

Have you ever had that person that immediately makes you smile? Where you feel like whatever was wrong is suddenly gone, with just that one smile. I suppose it could be more than a person. It could be a song, an indulgence of a naughty food. But today, for me, it was that one person. Total cheesy grin at that "Hey!" 

As I sit and think, I know I get that smile out of nowhere when I listen to my kids. Sometimes the silly things I overhear them say. (As I sit here and overhear my almost 13 yr old singing in the shower).

Oh! What about that first chocolate chip cookie warm out of the oven!? HEAVEN! The warmth, gooey, mmm chocolatey goodness that you see it and your eyes sparkle and you smile because you know THAT one is for you you YOU! (I've just made myself hungry for fresh baked chocolate chip cookies, darnit!)

Today, another smile, a couple came into work. They moved here recently from Georgia. They were older(66 and 70) and the lady just talked and was telling me more detail than I needed to know as her husband looked around the office then finally sat and nodded and let her talk. It made me smile. She was just so happy to share about their house and why they moved and then both of them telling me about this horrible flood they had in Georgia that they lost their house to. (I didn't know there was a flood in Georgia...it was in 2009). 

For a Monday, I discovered I had more things to smile about than I had thought. We all need that one thing to smile about. We need to find that one thing, it can come when we least expect it, it can come from somewhere we never thought. But, I don't want to rely on another person for my happiness...today, a person was the one that made me have the best smile. Maybe we all need to try to make someone smile. We don't have to depend on others to do it, WE can try to make someone with a bad day finally smile. Now, for me, I'd be all silly. Probably start singing "I'm a Love Machine, uh huh..." because THAT song makes me smile every time! Oh, another one, "Funkytown" only because I sing it very silly with different voices. I see now why my 16 yr old is afraid I'll embarrass him. I'd not do it to embarrass him, at least not intentionally lol Now that I think about it, maybe that's why he doesn't like going grocery shopping with me as I sing along to the music playing on the overhead speakers. Hmm. My other son asked me the other day why they play music in the store lol I told him so to keep the customers entertained, as I hummed along to a song that I didn't know the words to and hoped that no one in the aisle could hear me.