It rains, it pours...

I am trying to keep a sunny disposition around these parts for the new year. To keep hopeful, positive, annoyingly optomistic even.
But it is getting hard.

Really hard.

For one, the rain. Seriously, more rain? It has rained every week since I can remember here. I do remember a drought years ago when I promised to never complain about rain. So this is just an observation, man, we certainly should have an awesome water table thingy do now. Never seen so much rain.

The ground if often so soggy that our backyard looks like a mud bog after the dog runs around for five minutes.

Our poor dog. He misses playing in the sunshine. Going to the sunny park to frolic. So do I. We play with him as much as we can indoors, but you can tell even he is sick of it. Last week I played with him outside for a long time, and he got so muddy he had to have a bath immediately after.

It's also cold, which doesn't bother me that much, EXCEPT that our downstairs heating unit went out last night. Burrr...

So you may be able to figure out why Polly Positive is struggling around here to find her sunny disposition and side order of cheer.

I know that we are SO BLESSED, but last night my hubby was struggling to find that as he rehearsed our household trials over the last year. We just paid for our upstairs heating unit to be replaced in April of last year. WHAT A FUN WAY TO SPEND thousands of dollars, right?

I am waiting on the heating guy now, but last winter he warned us that the heat was on it's last leg and it would be much more expensive to replace the downstairs unit when it died.

Joy.

We are praying it is a simple, quick fix.

Blessedly, we do have gas logs, but we can't leave them unattended so that makes it hard when you first get up. Yes, just like Ann Voskamp, I can find the gratitude in this situation.

That's all for now.

I know. Not very uplifting. Sorry. Did I mention it is raining a lot.

What is robbing your smile right now?