Handful of summer goodness

Beautiful and absolutely delicious tomatoes

and the biggest raspberries I have ever seen

All from my garden! Ymm!!

Call-in sick today

I'm not sure if it's from some kind of bug or just exhaustion from good-old playing hard without enough sleep. My 2 older kids had mild fever today. My body doesn't produce much of fever, but I have had this headache and absolutely no energy to do anything. So, I decided to call-in sick today as...me. Kids are fed and changed. I think that's about all I have done today. I guess it's a benefit of being stay-at-home mom, because I don't have any certain number of sick-days to begin with. Although I have a son who constantly calling me "Mama!" for help and asked me to finish his $1.00 wooden model helicopter (which I did finish), I don't have to be yelled at by my boss (my former boss, that is). Although I have a lot of housework needed to be done, I don't have to feel unnecessarily guilty about leaving that job for my nagging co-workers (again, my former co-workers), because those housework will still be there without much complain, or maybe my sweet dear husband will help do graciously.
So, today, kids and I just snuggled up in a couch and watched movies (kids) or read a book (me), and got some very needed rest all together.

Definition of happiness

I started reading a book Bluebird a few days ago. In there, it read "Canadian positive psychologist Paul T.P. Wong defines happiness as 'the capacity to rejoice in the midst of suffering.' I like that definition. Happiness isn't the absence of suffering, then. Happiness doesn't have to be about denial."

I like that. Maybe I should post more often here...