The Happiness Project

For our latest book club, I chose The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. It chronicles one woman's year-long quest to make herself happier. Each month she focused on different aspects of her life (kids, marriage, work, etc) and consciously tried to do specific things to increase her happiness in that area.

By the end of the book, is she happier? She says yes. We had different reactions to the book. Some people found inspiration in learning what she did (and cleaned out their closets); some people felt her revelations were nothing new. It generated a very interesting discussion and I loved learning about everyone's views on what makes one happy. Also, we had our first Kindle-read book--not only did Debbie read the book on her Kindle, she was able to view the associated blog posts.

I made flower pot desserts: little clay pots with a layer of pound cake at the bottom, ice cream, and then "dirt" (ground up Oreos) for topsoil, with a flower poking through. I found the recipe at The Pioneer Woman's blog. I felt it was a very happy dessert.