Starting the week by writing the Happy List is something I’ve been doing for a while over the last few years. It is my chance to sit down and reflect on the things that made me happy in the previous week, as well as to record some of our family adventures. It’s a post I love to write and look back over.

Five Happy Things {Week 481}

I hope you had a lovely Christmas. Unfortunately we all came down with a cough which laid us all out, one by one. The kids got a computer (to build himself!) and the other received an iPad. I thought this would mean their pile of presents would be smaller but they seemed very fortunate to receive just as many as last year. I received some iPODs and some new books which have kept me busy.

We always love to receive board games and my son got a copy of Myrabi. This is a game we were introduced to a few weeks ago when we visited Food and Board, a board game cafe. It feels like we’ve played it every day since he opened it and it’s just as good as we remembered it to be.

Just before Christmas I ordered a set of pretty wooden embroidered ornaments for Little Stitchy Bee. You embroider them yourself and can hang them on your tree. I embroidered six of them but have left the other two for next Christmas.

I wasn’t sure if I was going to but I did finish my Goodreads 2023 Reading Challenge to read 35 books. There was a real mixture of books, lots of novels and lovely craft books too. I’ve set myself the challenge to read 35 books next year, I’d love to read more but it seems a realistic target for me.

Today we went and watched Wonka at our local cinema. I went with my 12 year old, whilst my husband watched Ferrari with the 13 year old. We loved Wonka, it was such a gorgeous film and I loved the way it referenced the earlier Charlie and the Chocolate Factory films.

Have a great week.