{"id":8656,"date":"2016-04-05T07:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/?p=8656"},"modified":"2016-05-07T12:27:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T19:27:19","slug":"listifylife-little-things-that-make-me-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/listifylife-little-things-that-make-me-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"#ListifyLife &#8211; Little Things that Make Me Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the first April edition\u00a0of the #ListifyLife Spring Challenge! This week we have <strong>Little Things that Make Me Happy<\/strong> (as a side note, I am completely blanking on whether Me should be capitalized in a title or not&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/listify3Happy.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8657\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8657\" src=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/listify3Happy.jpg\" alt=\"listify3Happy\" width=\"400\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/listify3Happy.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/listify3Happy-150x137.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/listify3Happy-300x273.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Blue Skies!<\/em> So, so important! I am one of those folks whose moods are affected by the weather. I really do not like gray skies. Just a little bit of blue peeking through the clouds can carry me through two days of crappy weather. Blue Skies is a really little thing that goes a long way toward making me happy.<\/li>\n<li><em>Hiking with my Husband.<\/em>\u00a0I guess &#8220;walking&#8221; is a more accurate description. I don&#8217;t get to walk\/hike with my husband as often I would like, because we have to work around his work schedule and his golfing. \ud83d\ude09 But whenever we both have a weekend morning free, we get Allie McBeagle and head off to the nearest provincial park. I walk every day with Allie, but she gets to go off-lease when Steve is around. Now, she&#8217;s starting to go pretty deaf, so we have to make sure we keep an eye on her. I think my husband really enjoys these walks, as well. He warns me that when the dog goes to the Rainbow Bridge we will lose our incentive to walk. And he&#8217;s right, a dog forces you to get outdoors. But I love the walks and hikes and would participate regardless.<\/li>\n<li>I especially love when my husband goes and fetches me a <em>Surprise Latte<\/em> before one of our walks! I can only have caffeine before, oh, 10:30 a.m. is probably safest. Maybe 11 a.m. if I want to push it. We often have coffee on our walks, but a surprise latte makes me very happy.<\/li>\n<li><em>A Beagle Sleeping on My Lap<\/em>. Sometimes it&#8217;s a PITN when Allie is demanding to rest with &#8220;Yap&#8221; (beagle-speak for Lap, one of her nicknames for me) and &#8220;Yap&#8221; really needs to break her brain with spreadsheets or kill her back washing floors or something. But you know what? A beagle forcing Yap to take a break is not a bad thing at all. When my dog is resting with me (on me) and snoring\/snuffling away, she&#8217;s content so I&#8217;m content. One of the simple joys of life. Loving a dog.<\/li>\n<li><em>Hugging my Kids!<\/em> Anyone with kids, this pretty much goes without saying, but I only get to see Eldest Son in July and August, when he&#8217;s visiting from teaching high school overseas, so that First Hug is oh-so-wonderful! And each summer hug is so important because it needs to carry me throughout another year. And then there&#8217;s Youngest Son! He gives the greatest hugs. He only lives 90 minutes away, not a 10-hour plane ride away, but he&#8217;s over six feet, which is a lot taller than Moi, and I like to stand on this step in our mud room when I hug him. Whenever I hug him, I think of the tiny little 4 lb. 15 oz. preemie born 25 years ago. But now my preemie can squeeze and hug and lift me. I also have to get on the step to hug my DILly, so is also nearly six feet tall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What little things make you happy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the first April edition\u00a0of the #ListifyLife Spring Challenge! This week we have Little Things that Make Me Happy (as a side note, I am completely blanking on whether Me should be capitalized in a title or not&#8230;) Blue Skies! So, so important! I am one of those folks whose moods are affected by&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/listifylife-little-things-that-make-me-happy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#ListifyLife &#8211; Little Things that Make Me Happy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,58,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-for-fun","category-listifylife","category-stuff-about-me","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8658,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8656\/revisions\/8658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}