Nothing is interesting if you're not interested. - Helen MacInness

I have one last paper to write for my undergraduate B.A.  I'm having a hard time with it, partially because it's my last one, partially because of the weather, and partially because I'm far more interested in my trip in May and planning that than anything related to school.  So, while it's really too early to say and I hope I'm not jinxing anything, my heart was most certainly smiling when things started to fall into place, a rough outline was formed, and I wrote a page and a half.

Hopefully on Tuesday I'll be able to say my heart was smiling when I handed it in!

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. - Seneca

I've been waiting a while for this day with excitement and trepidation. Today my heart smiled (and my wallet cried) when I booked my flights to Swaziland!

When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels - Unknown

Today we had clear blue sky and lots of snow on the ground. In the morning I was outside at work playing with the toddlers and one of them walked into a snow drift. My heart smiled when he called for help because he was stuck, not because he had fallen in the snow, but simply because the snow was too deep for him to walk in! It was just too cute!

Soup is liquid comfort. - Author Unknown

The weather outside today was awful. What made it even worse was when I walked, against the wind and snow, to work only to find out that it was closed for the day. When I got back to my apartment, I decided that I needed some kind of pick-me-up and lunch. That's when I remembered that there's nothing better on a cold and miserable day than comfort food! My heart smiled when I opened my fridge to find leftover homemade mac and cheese from my mom that I had forgotten about (but it was still good, so I hadn't forgotten it for that long). My day quickly turned around when I was eating that mac and cheese, and got even better when I was lying in bed with a nice hot chocolate while catching up on television shows.

A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often. - Author Unknown

My heart smiled today when a two year old boy wearing a woman's white straw hat came up to me at work and said, "I'm a pirate! Arrrr!"

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. - Charles Reade

Today my heart smiled when I handed in the paperwork for my new passport because I know it means I'm a step away from buying my plane ticket to Swaziland!

Children make you want to start life over. - Muhammad Ali

Today at work a four year old boy was wearing a black buttoned up shirt. My heart smiled when he proudly told everyone that it was his "Johnny Cash shirt" and when the teacher asked him who Johnny Cash is, he answered back with, "A singer, but he's dead now."