The Poor Foodie's Diary: Positivity and the pursuit of moments with dragonflies.

ATTENTION: this blog post lacks a drool inducing quality this week. Don't hate me but I'm hitting up a different topic just this once! But if you want my recipe for my "Fool Proof Nachos" pictured at the end of this blog just let me know!

My sweet sweet SWEET husband, Brian, purchased the famous Strength's Finders book, by Tom Rath, a few weeks back and then for a date night challenged me to take the test.

Isn't he romantic? I hate tests though. I must confess….I've never tried very hard at them. I don't put much stock in their ability to tell me how smart or stupid I really am. Specifically multiple choice tests. I feel that they simply cause people to be rehearsed and focused on a tiny portion and miss the bigger picture or even worse, to confuse and trick people into questioning what they actually LEARNED in the first place!

Ok no more test tangent. Brian pointed out that this test is supposed to help you understand how you operate, why you think the way you do, react the way you do, and what are the pro's and cons to these "strengths" in your personality. And mostly that there are no wrong answers so I figured, "what the heck".

After spending 40 minutes answering timed questions (that turned out to be slightly stressful but productive) I learned that one of my top gifts, was positivity.

At first I was kinda like, hmmmmmm that's a little bit of a lame strength. My husband comparatively had the top strengths of tough stuff like "Achiever" and "Focus". I am gonna be honest I kinda felt like a wuss! But after sitting in my awareness of the strength's and weaknesses of who I am I now love that positivity is one of the ways God made me!

Life is worth taking the moments that are simple in their beauty and stringing them together to make an awesome story. It takes a lot to get me down about things. Instead I choose to look ahead to the next beautiful moment in my day. Whether it be the fact that I get off work in two more hours and the weather is insanely perfectly gorgeous, the fact that I figured out that I will be able to make intensely delicious nachos with the random articles of food I have in my fridge and freezer, or that I FINALLY perfected the bridge pose in my yoga video! Take the moments! String them together! Smile about them! Reflect on those things and the stresses of this world will fade away.

I have learned to appreciate and be ecstatic about the simplest things in life. I know some people probably think I am ridiculous, dumb, and annoying at times I'm sure. I know that I am so incredibly imperfect. I am a constant screw up but half the time I don't even notice because I'm too busy recognizing the beauty in the good! Haha

Right now my husband is singing some made-up song while he works away on another video upstairs. Our front door is wide open, there's a nice breeze, and my precious Sparkplug is curled up next to me sleeping. And I am writing to all of you of course. Yea this is DEFINITELY one of those moments to put on that strand that is my sweet story.

I hope that on the day of my funeral people know me for being a positive light in this world. More importantly then anything I hope people will be able to see how they've learned to string together their own story of beautiful moment's in their lives and that they can face each day with peace and a smile.

So here's my homage to the beautiful moments in my life this past week. I hope this prompts you to find your moments too. Past, present, and future.