Smiling makes it better

My cousin's wife has a Try-It-With-Me Tuesday post on her very inspiring blog (the blog in fact is called "Finding What Inspires").
Her recent, and first, Tuesday challenge was to encourage smiling. I committed to the challenge with ease thinking, "no problem".

Well, today it was a problem. I have a project I am trying to put together, and I was on edge for most of the morning because my girls needed all of my attention. I wasn't able to get much done. Actually, I got nothing done. At one point, I could sense my own frustration, and I remembered that I was supposed to smile. I have to say, it really helped. It helped me to let all that stress and anxiety go, and it helped my girls feel the love and patience from me that they deserve.

I think in the future, I might need a reminder, like this:

on my wall, because I might have to fake it until I get it right.