Several months ago our preacher spoke about this study that showed people who wrote down 3 things they were thankful for each night were happier and less depressed.
Sounds easy enough, right? Read all about it here!
Showing gratitude enhances how we feel and increases our overall satisfaction with life. But we often focus on the bad and completely forget when good things happen to us. We should be making a point to remember all the little good things that happen to us during the day.
There is even a website that will email you every single night and ask you for your responses and then store them privately!
I think we could all benefit from getting a little happier right?!
I'm going to post them here. Maybe not every single day, because I plan on actually writing them down. with a pen and paper -what! But some days. here goes.
1. Today I went over to my friend Kensi's house to drop some stuff off and got to sit and talk for about an hour and hold her precious little 4 month boy. It's nice to get to talk/vent to other med-school wives who relate to our situation!
2. This morning I woke up to the sun shining in our bedroom window. It was warm and beautiful.
3. I made homemade pizza with a new whole wheat flour and it was so good! I am always really happy when I cook new things and they turn out good. Have any of you baked cookies or anything else with wheat flour??
4. Tonight Lee and I went to play volleyball with the teens from our church. I played only because it was so cold in the gym I couldn't sit, but actually ended up enjoying myself. I am a terrible player, but was never picked for a team last and actually made it over the net most of the time! Lee is such a great influence on these teenage boys and they all look up to him. My husband overflows my heart.
5. After church we went to 7-Eleven because Lee knew how much I would love a donut. I got their new skinny salted caramel mocha too. It was delicious! and the reason I'm up at 1:30am writing this/doing homework. Thankful for 7-Eleven and their late night bounty of sugary goodness.
Want to join me in appreciating your life more? All you need is 5 minutes and a pen :)
Come on lets get happy....
Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Monday, February 18, 2013
Valentine's Day Love
EIGHT!
crazy.
As our usual, it was a little low key. We both had to work and are on that "not spending money" thing.
I go home everyday for lunch for about an hour and half b/c I live 2 blocks from work and have a long break in the middle of the day (probably the best part of my job!ha!) so Lee always knows that I'm home from 12-1 or 2.
On Valentine's Day he came home for lunch and surprised me by bringing me a beautiful bouquet of flowers (mini carnations) and my favorite lunch food!! (Chicken Orchard Salad and Tre Color Sandwich from Brioche -a shop in the hospital)
I am so blessed by that husband of mine. I love him so overwhelmingly much and we have so much fun together. As much as I love what an amazing man and soon-to-be Dr he is, I love his silly, boyish side even more! and that's the side that I think (and am secretly happy) that only I see.
We spent the weekend getting snowed in watching children's movies!
I'm slightly embarrassed to admit how many movies we watched, but I got all my homework done (and some for next week!!) so whatever, I spent all that time cuddling with my husband.
We watched:
Friday night - Wreck it Ralph (well I fell asleep in that one...) but it started off funny and I'm planning on watching it at some point
Saturday night - Hotel Transylvania - really cute! and lots of funny people do the voices. I don't know if little kids would like it that much though...
And on Sunday afternoon we had an Ice Age marathon! I love those movies! We watched the 4th one a few weeks ago so we re-watched 1-3.
We didn't like the picture of us (and Lee's only good for one picture at a time) so I just blurred us :)
My Valentine's Day outfit, the patients at our office loved it! haha
Chocolate covered strawberries I made my Lee!
We were going to go out for dinner on Saturday night, but I woke up craving breakfast food so we went out Saturday morning instead and good thing because during the afternoon it snowed several inches!
ps. all that food for $12.70! (plus tip)
ps. all that food for $12.70! (plus tip)
We didn't look outside for a few hours and then I heard a snow plow and saw this!
I'm beginning to forget what our street looked like when it wasn't blanketed in white!
Only 30 days till Spring!!!!!!!!!
I can't wait to wear those new coral skinny jeans I got at Target on clearance before Lent started ;)
oh! and I wanted to know do any of you, that I don't already follow, do instagram?! I LOVE it! Even more than Facebook!
you can find me @kelseycoghill
real tricky name I know.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
playing house
I'm just going out on a limb here and guessing that some of you probably think that Lee and I are pretty boring.
Maybe not me (haha... flattering myself here) but that Lee and I as a couple are a little... well... dull.
We may not go out that often, we don't go to parties, we don't have a huge group of friends (ok that is an exaggeration we have 0 friends in Michigan) and we don't see much of each other with our schedules, the whole medical school bit, and we're usually in bed by 9pm.... so how much fun could we possibly be having?
Well let me just tell you!
My everyday life is so. much. fun. I've been asking myself how did I get so lucky?
You may think that you know Lee. He's level headed, calm, very strategic, and an over-all genius (perhaps you'd even use the term know-it-all? gasp)
But that's not Lee to me.
He loves me in a way that I can't even describe. He's spontaneous and adventurous, lets his guard down, includes me in all decisions, and (thankfully for me) has a really hard time telling me no.
I sometimes feel like we're just playing house. The "real world" couldn't possibly be this much fun.
Married couples are boring and predicable and stressed, right?
Maybe we've just been on a good stretch, oh the last 3 years.... but I think we've got a good thing going here.
When we get home in the evenings we are so excited to see each other and have so much to talk about. We enjoy each others company over dinner every night. (Sunday we actually just had ice cream for dinner. Lee's idea and I did not complain). Lee has never complained about dinner. ever. not about it being gross, or late, or non-existent. If I haven't cooked he'll go make us both something or ask if I'm in the mood for pizza :) i
When we're out and I see somewhere I want to go he says "sure! why not". Even if it's the 100th yard sale we've been to.
We still act like we've just started dating (and we're going on 7 years!) We kiss, we hold hands, he still pulls out his wallet every time we're in a restaurant even though we both know he never has money in it. lol.
And just the opposite, we act like we've known each other forever. like we've never been apart. We're so comfortable and know how to deal with each other. He knows when I'm in a mood or being completely unreasonable.
We are happy with the church(s) we've found and we're involved. This Friday we're playing volleyball with the teens and Saturday there is a dinner. He's going to be playing the guitar soon during service. God has blessed us abundantly.
We talk about what we want in life.
We talk about our future babies, and even though we're both more than ready and so excited, we re-assure each other the reasons it's good to wait a bit longer. So we have a fish. And talk to him like a child.
We talk about where we'll live someday (most recently we've been discussing Maine or Washington - just for a change of scenery :) and of course our many, many, visits to Grenada.
We laugh, we dance, we sing, we are in love.
And in the midst of all that - we pay bills, make difficult decisions, we miss our families, we have hard days at work, and we're tired. a lot.
But it works.
And I love playing house. just not dirty dishes.... so Lee takes care of that :)
Maybe not me (haha... flattering myself here) but that Lee and I as a couple are a little... well... dull.
We may not go out that often, we don't go to parties, we don't have a huge group of friends (ok that is an exaggeration we have 0 friends in Michigan) and we don't see much of each other with our schedules, the whole medical school bit, and we're usually in bed by 9pm.... so how much fun could we possibly be having?
Well let me just tell you!
My everyday life is so. much. fun. I've been asking myself how did I get so lucky?
You may think that you know Lee. He's level headed, calm, very strategic, and an over-all genius (perhaps you'd even use the term know-it-all? gasp)
But that's not Lee to me.
He loves me in a way that I can't even describe. He's spontaneous and adventurous, lets his guard down, includes me in all decisions, and (thankfully for me) has a really hard time telling me no.
I sometimes feel like we're just playing house. The "real world" couldn't possibly be this much fun.
Married couples are boring and predicable and stressed, right?
Maybe we've just been on a good stretch, oh the last 3 years.... but I think we've got a good thing going here.
When we get home in the evenings we are so excited to see each other and have so much to talk about. We enjoy each others company over dinner every night. (Sunday we actually just had ice cream for dinner. Lee's idea and I did not complain). Lee has never complained about dinner. ever. not about it being gross, or late, or non-existent. If I haven't cooked he'll go make us both something or ask if I'm in the mood for pizza :) i
When we're out and I see somewhere I want to go he says "sure! why not". Even if it's the 100th yard sale we've been to.
We still act like we've just started dating (and we're going on 7 years!) We kiss, we hold hands, he still pulls out his wallet every time we're in a restaurant even though we both know he never has money in it. lol.
And just the opposite, we act like we've known each other forever. like we've never been apart. We're so comfortable and know how to deal with each other. He knows when I'm in a mood or being completely unreasonable.
We are happy with the church(s) we've found and we're involved. This Friday we're playing volleyball with the teens and Saturday there is a dinner. He's going to be playing the guitar soon during service. God has blessed us abundantly.
We talk about what we want in life.
We talk about our future babies, and even though we're both more than ready and so excited, we re-assure each other the reasons it's good to wait a bit longer. So we have a fish. And talk to him like a child.
We talk about where we'll live someday (most recently we've been discussing Maine or Washington - just for a change of scenery :) and of course our many, many, visits to Grenada.
We laugh, we dance, we sing, we are in love.
And in the midst of all that - we pay bills, make difficult decisions, we miss our families, we have hard days at work, and we're tired. a lot.
But it works.
And I love playing house. just not dirty dishes.... so Lee takes care of that :)
Friday, November 25, 2011
thanks for writing on the bus seat
Yesterday I had sort of a rough night... thinking about leaving Grenada and all the kids.
I'm sad to think about what these kids' futures.
I see the creepy Grenadian men who say atrocious things to women and I pray that my sweet little ones don't turn out this way... but if that's all the see the men in their lives doing, then they will.
A lot of the girls will end up single teen mothers...
They'll having drinking problems and spend their lives living dollar to dollar. not even paycheck to paycheck.
How will we ever know if what we do at the after school program even makes a difference at all? The kids will stop coming when they go to secondary school, just like some I've already known.
I cry thinking about all the kids in the orphanages who don't get held nearly enough. When they are sick they don't have a mommy to hold them and rock them to sleep. They are alone in their bed every single night.
The sweet boy with special needs will be shunned by society and end up begging for money.
The one with sickle cell won't live very long.
The little ones who already sell fruits on the street corner at the ages of 5 & 6 will continue to earn a living that way for the rest of their lives.
I have such a burden on my heart for this kids and yet there isn't really anything I can do. I pray for them and trying to give them as much love as I can while I'm here.
Lee says that it isn't as bad for them as I think it is because I was raised in America... and things are different. He says maybe the kids selling fruit aren't unhappy... maybe the people who sell things on the beach are ok because they don't know a different way of life.
But I know. I know the guilty feeling I have when I drive past people riding in an air-conditioned SGU bus or when I'm carrying sacks full of groceries from IGA past a lady trying to sell fruit and vegetables at a road side stand.
I was feeling a little down but got a great surprise today when I went over to the Limes to pick up a paper from my friend and some of the kids' mother Jill today. The Limes field is set in the middle of several schools. The Grand Anse school is over the hill a few blocks away, but the Special Education school, the pre-school, and the Mennonite school are all set around the field.
Today was field day for the Grand Anse school so they were all in the field running around today! And it happened to be lunch time so all the other schools were outside too!
I walked around the corner and saw 100s of kids and they started yelling my name. First at the Special Ed school I saw 3 girls from Bel Air Home, 3 kids from Queen Elizabeth, and Orian from Limes! Then I saw some little ones at the pre-school. Another SO friend of mine has 2 kids who attend the Mennonite school and they came running over along with some of the other Limes kids... and then the Grand Anse school is FULL of Limes kid so there were dozens of them! It was so much fun. I felt like a celebrity. It was so fun. I never wanted to leave. But the teachers were kinda looking at me like "who the heck are you?" :)
I then walked back across the way and caught a bus to campus and sat down in a seat thinking about the kids and saw this:
Not only is it a great quote but it is the same seat Amber and I sat in on the trip we took to Belmont Estates my first term... it made me miss her so much! and then I cried again.
I'm sad to think about what these kids' futures.
I see the creepy Grenadian men who say atrocious things to women and I pray that my sweet little ones don't turn out this way... but if that's all the see the men in their lives doing, then they will.
A lot of the girls will end up single teen mothers...
They'll having drinking problems and spend their lives living dollar to dollar. not even paycheck to paycheck.
How will we ever know if what we do at the after school program even makes a difference at all? The kids will stop coming when they go to secondary school, just like some I've already known.
I cry thinking about all the kids in the orphanages who don't get held nearly enough. When they are sick they don't have a mommy to hold them and rock them to sleep. They are alone in their bed every single night.
The sweet boy with special needs will be shunned by society and end up begging for money.
The one with sickle cell won't live very long.
The little ones who already sell fruits on the street corner at the ages of 5 & 6 will continue to earn a living that way for the rest of their lives.
I have such a burden on my heart for this kids and yet there isn't really anything I can do. I pray for them and trying to give them as much love as I can while I'm here.
Lee says that it isn't as bad for them as I think it is because I was raised in America... and things are different. He says maybe the kids selling fruit aren't unhappy... maybe the people who sell things on the beach are ok because they don't know a different way of life.
But I know. I know the guilty feeling I have when I drive past people riding in an air-conditioned SGU bus or when I'm carrying sacks full of groceries from IGA past a lady trying to sell fruit and vegetables at a road side stand.
I was feeling a little down but got a great surprise today when I went over to the Limes to pick up a paper from my friend and some of the kids' mother Jill today. The Limes field is set in the middle of several schools. The Grand Anse school is over the hill a few blocks away, but the Special Education school, the pre-school, and the Mennonite school are all set around the field.
Today was field day for the Grand Anse school so they were all in the field running around today! And it happened to be lunch time so all the other schools were outside too!
I walked around the corner and saw 100s of kids and they started yelling my name. First at the Special Ed school I saw 3 girls from Bel Air Home, 3 kids from Queen Elizabeth, and Orian from Limes! Then I saw some little ones at the pre-school. Another SO friend of mine has 2 kids who attend the Mennonite school and they came running over along with some of the other Limes kids... and then the Grand Anse school is FULL of Limes kid so there were dozens of them! It was so much fun. I felt like a celebrity. It was so fun. I never wanted to leave. But the teachers were kinda looking at me like "who the heck are you?" :)
I then walked back across the way and caught a bus to campus and sat down in a seat thinking about the kids and saw this:
Tupac is a legend, but Jesus is alive and he saves.
Not only is it a great quote but it is the same seat Amber and I sat in on the trip we took to Belmont Estates my first term... it made me miss her so much! and then I cried again.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
10 Things I Love About You
Today over at Newlywed's Bliss we are having a link up party! We are asking you each week for the month of November to write a post with 10 things you love about your spouse!
They say that 10% of things about your spouse drive you crazy... the other 90% are the things that you love and made you fall in love with them in the first place, but sometimes we focus on that 10% too much.
To my Lee:
Want to join in on the fun?? Head over to Newlywed's Bliss and link up!!
They say that 10% of things about your spouse drive you crazy... the other 90% are the things that you love and made you fall in love with them in the first place, but sometimes we focus on that 10% too much.
- I love that you study and work so so so hard and you impress me every single day.
- I love that you are so smart and properly diagnosed my Mom by what little info I relayed to you.
- I love that yesterday you said "there are more important things in life than a tidy house"
- I love that you think I am the world's greatest cook. and I secretly like it when you say things I make taste better than my Mom's.
- I love that you didn't mind that I put up a Christmas tree even though we are getting ready to move and won't even be in this apartment for Christmas.
- I love that you offered and slept on the floor Sunday night and gave my friend Amber the bed (long story) and were genuinely happy to do so.
- I love that you always, every single day of your life have the very best intentions about everything. You have such a sweet heart and I want to be more like you.
- I love that you include me in every single decision you make.
- I love that you like to watch football and sometimes get into it so much that you're out of your chair yelling something.... and I love that you try to include me and tell me when they are fighting!
- I love that you love the Limes kids as much as me and are taking time out of your busy schedule to come spend time with them.
Want to join in on the fun?? Head over to Newlywed's Bliss and link up!!
Saturday, November 12, 2011
a small glimpse...
I never could have imagined loving someone more than Lee, and being as though I don't have children Lee is still #1.... but when I look at these kids my heart swells and I get this feeling that I can't describe.
And seeing Lee interact with the kids is sometimes more than my heart can stand. I need to take them home with me. All of them.
Monday, October 24, 2011
love
I had 4 males tell me they loved me this week.
1. My husband
2. My dad
3. The little boy I babysit said it to me out loud for the first time this week. I get it a lot on homemade cards and he's hinted... but the other night he was going to sleep and hugged me really tight and said "I love you Kelsey, you're my best friend.... friend that is a girl". haha. I'll take it. It made me a little teary because I'll miss this little one a lot when I'm gone in December.
4. A boy swimming at the beach. This story is why I did this post, b/c I don't want to forget about little things like this that make me laugh.
I was swimming at Pandy Beach looking for sea glass (what else?) and there were a group of pre-teen/teenage boys by me. I had enlisted their help to find me the elusive pink sea glass. I had on my snorkel mask (super attractive) and was just about to go underwater & one of the boys shouted "Miss! Miss! I... I love you!" I came up and said "you love me? you don't even know me!" and he said "I just met you and I know that I love you. I love your long hair." I asked how old he was and he said "Fort.... sixteen!" haha and I said I'm sorry I am way too old for you and I'm married! an old married lady! After he checked my finger for a ring to be sure I wasn't lying he said... "you're not old, you're 20?" hahaha and then we became friends and I let him borrow my snorkel mask.
Sorry to Lee and Dad you don't have a great story to go along with your love for me this week. Try harder next time!
1. My husband
2. My dad
3. The little boy I babysit said it to me out loud for the first time this week. I get it a lot on homemade cards and he's hinted... but the other night he was going to sleep and hugged me really tight and said "I love you Kelsey, you're my best friend.... friend that is a girl". haha. I'll take it. It made me a little teary because I'll miss this little one a lot when I'm gone in December.
4. A boy swimming at the beach. This story is why I did this post, b/c I don't want to forget about little things like this that make me laugh.
I was swimming at Pandy Beach looking for sea glass (what else?) and there were a group of pre-teen/teenage boys by me. I had enlisted their help to find me the elusive pink sea glass. I had on my snorkel mask (super attractive) and was just about to go underwater & one of the boys shouted "Miss! Miss! I... I love you!" I came up and said "you love me? you don't even know me!" and he said "I just met you and I know that I love you. I love your long hair." I asked how old he was and he said "Fort.... sixteen!" haha and I said I'm sorry I am way too old for you and I'm married! an old married lady! After he checked my finger for a ring to be sure I wasn't lying he said... "you're not old, you're 20?" hahaha and then we became friends and I let him borrow my snorkel mask.
Sorry to Lee and Dad you don't have a great story to go along with your love for me this week. Try harder next time!
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