5 Things That Are Making Me Happy

Hi friends!

It’s been much too long. I hope that you have been well! This weekend has been a busy one to be sure. Yesterday, Bryan’s sister, brother-in-law and little niece came over for the afternoon which was a blast. (PS: If you think that there is even a minute chance that you will have children under the age of five visiting your home, run, don’t walk, to go buy play doh. It will save your life. Also be prepared for it to be ground into your carpet, but FEAR YOU NOT, it comes right out and doesn’t stain. Whoever invented that nonsense was seriously brilliant.)

It was a lovely time filled with good people and good stories. And a fondue pot. (<– Best purchase ever. But I say that about a lot of things…)

I don’t know about you, but Sundays have been really bumming me out lately. Big time Sunday Ennui. Mondays come around much too quickly and they are rough, rough, rough. It’s almost like I can’t remove myself from the back-to-work funk for long enough to even relish a Sunday, but I have GOT to stop that! I must say, however, that today was super productive; I washed clothes, hit the gym (and completed the entire first workout on Couch-to-5k), cleaned the apartment, bought some new, went for a walk with my honey (it was over 80 degrees today!!!) and even did some wedding crafting.

I think that maybe the problem is that I always have so many things that I want to, need to, should do, but there’s never quite enough time. I need to find a way to adjust so that BOTH days of the weekend are equally as relaxing and enjoyable.

Anyway, let’s skip along to something a little brighter than my Sunday Blahs.

It is a new month, and I can’t think of a better time than the first days of a new month to roll out a “Things That Are Making Me Happy” list.

I am hoping to start doing this once a month on the blog to give you guys a little preview into the life of the Bee behind Beeing Fancy. A list of things to smile about is just what the doctor ordered for the bluer days.

Here we go!

1. I have a whole bunch of fun (hopefully…) posts for this coming week and lots of things to share with you! I am also working diligently to pull together the look of Beeing Fancy which I am SO excited to roll out.

2. More wedding crafting. The project that I’ve been working on this weekend needs to be kept on the DL for just a tad bit longer, but I’m rullllll excited to share it with you. There are so many random and fun things that I hope to do for our wedding and part of the fun of having a (slightly) “longer” (who makes these rules, anyway?!) engagement was that we’d be able to plan everything with super low stress. Me, being the DIY queen that I fancy myself, can’t wait to get some serious crafting underway.

3. The month of May. Ever since I was a young one, May has been one of my very favorite months. I may be partial because my birthday is in May, but it also seems to be the time when the weather here in NYS finally starts to shape up, when the prettiest, smelliest flowers are in bloom (Lilacs! Hyacinths! Yay!), and when we get our first little tastes of summer. I am big into bar-b-q, outdoors festivals, farmer’s markets, flowers and nice weather and I am so thrilled to FINALLY welcome those things back into my life after the grossest, longest, coldest, snowiest winter ever. Ever.

4. Health kicks. I don’t think I am alone in finding the spring and summer to be SO much more motivating than the winter. Maybe it’s because suddenly, I’m not hiding beneath fourteen layers of clothes (and can see what’s added up!!!!), but I have suddenly been bitten by the workout bug and it is about time!

5. Vacations. Bryan and I are lucky in that we have a couple of “built-in” vacations this year for various family things. I am so excited to take a couple of days away from the working life to just escape with my miser. Truthfully, I couldn’t care less if we were camping in a tent or staying in a nice hotel, just the idea of getting away from it all for a bit is enough to distract me day-in and day-out.

What are some things that are making YOU smile these days? Wishing you the merriest of Mondays.

Until tomorrow,

xoxoxoxo

Bee