Counting Happiness-Splashes...

I was ready to dash off and seize the day 

when my heart-strings snagged on this flower bouquet...

(and voila, its beauty begged to be immortalized in poetry)

It is like a splash of sunshine to brighten a stretch

of dreary weather!

What are your happiness splashes today?

A quick peek at a few of mine in the past few days...

A few months belated birthday celebration for our oldest Grandson...

(because unexpected interruptions turned into time passed by!)

Gramma and grands day...

Of eager child learning to read...

Craft and games (and silly singin' in the rain puppy) aftermath...

This puppy makes you smile and tap your toes the first time you hear him...

After the 150th time you want to hurl him outside to sing in the rain till he croaks!!😅

This ugly critter below still exists simply because 

of the mischief and laughter it provides for my grandchildren...

put it on grandma's shoulder-lap-head-plate and listen to her scream/shriek!

(p-s-s-t! sometimes for their enjoyment Grandma exaggerates reactions a bit)

...also, Grandma is biding time till PAYBACK! 😂

Let's count splashes of happiness we else might overlook

And gather them like pages in a heart-shaped picture book

Let's never take for granted what may never pass again

But be sweetly enchanted by love's lyric and refrain

Let's tune our hearts to see and hear love's many-splendored shades

Leaving pleasures to ponder when music or flower fades

Like the warmth of a handshake long after the clasp has cooled

Or the delight of daisies after nature's rod has ruled

Or wisdom, after it is schooled in hard-knock's purple eye

Or served with big fat slice of life's old-fashioned humble pie

Let's admire the poetry that needs no words to say

'I love you' in a smile, a wave, a fresh flower-bouquet

Let's do all that we can to collect nuggets of love's gold

Of eager child learning to read, of toddler's hand to hold

Of birthday hugs and cards and cakes, of laughter's sanguine bells 

Of ling'ring over cups of tea to postpone fond farewells

Of cherishing words like 'hello' 'we' 'us' 'ours' and 'together'

Of making precious memories no matter what the weather

Of taking time to stand still and behold the footprints ere

the one who leaves them vanishes into yesterday's air

Of sipping sacred servings of tick-tock, tick-tock, before

It is too late to try to taste the Time that is no more 

So, drink from life's communal cup only today can fill

And tip its chalice upside-down and let happiness spill

Like pennies from a pocket or like sparkles from the sky

Before the cup is but a shell holding the ocean's sigh

Stand still! and let the thrill of looking author wonder's hymn

Because the love of God is something that nothing can dim 

And this new day that He has made will soon join yesteryears

Let's count splashes of happiness before it disappears 

And thank the Lord for dentists when druthers would druther not

They are a precious blessing when a tooth-ache's what we've got

And thank Him for the tasks that sometimes almost steal our smiles

The people and the places we love make it worth their whiles 

And thank Him for both toil and rest; the best life has to give

And thank Him for our share in it as long, as long we live

Janet Martin