Daily Pleasures

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How are all of you doing? I’ve been doing a little better, lately. In terms of the “new normal”. Adjusting to it, making small changes. Some days it is a lot or I feel tired or simply super sick of eating my own cooking (and various Trader Joe’s frozen foods); I can feel a little out of my head and so as a balancing mechanism I’ve decided to try and insert some deliberate happiness into each day. I know it sounds a little sappy and/or obvious but making a concerted effort to have some daily pleasures has helped me so much – here are some of the things I’ve started to do, during this uncertain period:

Including more “little luxuries” in my bath/skincare routine routine. I decided to do this after too many hurried face washes/brush teeth/floss/lets get into bed as quickly as I can. I used to enjoy skincare! Doing serums, smelling yummy fragrances, choosing masks. Lately I’ve been lazy to do masks (who is going to see me)?? but for some reason I’ve gotten into little face massage tools. Maybe because I can do it at my desk or in the playroom with kids and it is a quick perk me up. My favorite is actually this face roller. Yes I bought this because of its price and also because I had the full sized Nuface in my cart and just couldn’t justify it. But it feels very good! Especially if you keep it in the fridge!

Staring at the sky. I have to be honest, writing that sentence makes me feel like I’m really reaching to try to get content. Like when you click on one of those articles about ten tips to being happy and all of the items are some variation of: “Be Happy”. But it honestly staring at the sky make me so happy! What I usually do is drag the kids outside and then I lay a blanket on the ground and then just zone out at the blue for as long as they will allow me. I have an old LL Bean blanket which I could no longer find online but I just bought this one and it’s larger and much less money. Throw a chilled LaCroix in the mix (we’ve been having great weather) and I’m in heaven.

Ordering sweets. Places I’ve ordered from since this all began: Christopher Elbow, Milk Bar, Sprinkles (for local pickup), and Sees (also pickup). I kind of feel like the girl who sends herself flowers in high school to make her crush jealous but it is nice to receive goodies every week! And yes, I do order every week because invariably my husband and kids take their share too. PS – Milk Bar often has free/reduced shipping promotions, I tend to wait until I see one and then pounce.

Ordering more in general. Yeah, the last week or so I’ve been online shopping more! Maybe I’m just ready for summer or something. I’m getting super sick of my pajamas (who thought I’d ever say that, certainly not me) so I’ve ordered a skirt and dress and cute top. So I’ll have new things to review soon, for those who are sick of my Covid-19 ramblings. Believe me, I understand!

Are you finding any daily pleasures out there? Please share!