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Happiness is...hearing my girls scream with delight on the trampoline.

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Happiness is...watching Gracie sleep on her first birthday.

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Happiness is...gardening with Gracie and finding the gooseberry bushes & fruit tree are blossoming.

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happiness is feeling soothed as you sit in a corner of your favorite cafe with a hot drink, tea biscuit, & a book

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happiness is watching seagulls at daybreak

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happiness is hearing Rosie play with Gracie: Mommy, put us in the oven (her bed), we need cooking -- we're baby biscuits!

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happiness is telling Graham we were about to play Little Drummer Boy & have him ask, "Is that rum-pa-pum?"

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happiness is making the family's traditional birthday cake

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happiness is helping out Gracie's cousin-twin (my cousin became a dad the same day I become a fourth-time mom) with productive advice

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happiness is having Graham delightedly exclaim, "We're working together!" as he, Rosie, & I fold a crepe paper streamer

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happiness is a cashmere sweater

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happiness is hearing Rosie say, "You're my friend."

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happiness is Cami's excitement as she plans her birthday party

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happiness is harvesting rose hips on a sunny November day

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happiness is listening to Rosie sing to herself

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happiness is being friends with Jason

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happiness is Cami's excitement at seeing Gracie take her first real crawling "steps"

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happiness is pulling on warm clothes that have been drying in the airing cupboard

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happiness is seeing Gracie's delight as she makes friends with the baby in the mirror

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happiness is seeing an unexpected (and unfamiliar) bird outside the kitchen window