Do you have something that makes you disproportionately happy?

[YoureBeingASillyBilly]

I do.

It's my neighbours across the road. They garden together with their little baby 'helping' aswell. I'm single and make no secret of the fact i would like to have someone i could do normal house and family stuff with but seeing these 3 out together working as a team brings me so much (unexpected) joy that i actually wonder if i'm a bit weird.

Does anyone else have something simple that brings you joy like this?

Seeing nice people happy. It almost brings a tear to my eye.

Candy that's a good one. When good stuff happens to nice people who thoroughly deserve it, and it's nothing to do with you but it makes you feel good anyway. Opposite of schadenfreude.

Sitting in bed with DS watching corrie, especially on a Friday night. Bliss

Remembered another one. When my son was away with his dad for the weekend (his dad lives 140 miles away), he said "I missed you so much I could have walked home". I almost cried with happiness that he thought so much of me, plus I had spent the whole weekend missing him like mad

This thread.

When DD first see me in the morning and reaches out her arms for a cuddle.

My chicken mug. It holds a good pint of tea, and it makes me smile every time I use it.

Oh keep these coming! All so lovely!

My insides swell with a happy feeling when I sit for a quiet moment outside in the sun, maybe just on the back doorstep. I've always loved it, listening to faraway noises like someone a few houses away mowing their lawn, cars or voices a few streets away, while i close my eyes and tip my face towards the sun. It makes me feel linked to the past - the many times I've felt that exact feeling, from teenage years till now. And also linked to the future, in that I know I'll still be loving that feeling (all being well!) when I'm an old lady.

Drama I used to get that feeling if I could hear trains late at night. When I lived on my own in my first proper house I used to feel a bit lonely at night sometimes, but if I had the window open I'd hear the noise of trains in the distance and it would make me feel connected to the world again, and somehow more safe.

My grandson's smile. He's five and a half months old. They live with us at the moment and I will miss them so much when they get their own house.

Thankful for every brand new day

I was volunteering at an urban farm last summer and one afternoon there was a young man and his kid going round. He looked 'rough'. But so happy to be with his son, huge grin, talking to him all excited and pointing everything out. I took a picture of them together on his phone and he was so grateful it made me melt a bit inside.
Sorry for sounding all prejudiced by saying rough. When I saw him with his kid, I totally changed my mind :)
love this memory. This is so cheesy but I felt like I was watching pure happiness.

My DCs soft hands. I love stroking them, especially when they've just had a bath.

Lambs. Seeing little tiny lambs jumping in the field behind my house always cheers me up.

The smell of coffee when the coffee machines been on.

Those mornings in autumn when there is frost on the grass but the sky is bright blue and the sun is shining. Feels really fresh.

Oh and the first hot drink of the day. Nothing ever beats that.

Slippers!

Lying on my bed mid afternoon, sunlight warming me, reading a paper or book until I doze off. The sound of a light aircraft buzzing past high above adds to this, for some reason!

Waving my class off at the end of the day and watchimg their excitement at seeing 'mummy! mummy!' or 'daddy! daddy!'. There's nothing like four year olds to make you appreciate simple joys.

The sound of my children singing!

Nice thread!

My partner - honestly, our relationship is such a pleasure
My home life / life style
my dogs
my hair (as a poster above reminded me of!)
My work (it was not a given that I could achieve anything so I feel proud daily about this)
That I learned to refine my friendship group and am left with only the people are just brilliant
watching birds eat the nuts in the garden
And finally... I usually build up a wish for something like ice cream over many weeks, maybe months, and when I finally have it, it is always such an incredible pleasure (I suffer after but it is worth it!)

My dogs, especially the little one, playing on his own with a toy. He has a rubber hoop that he's learned to twist and release so it flies up and away so he can chase it.

My boys in mud (but not the clearing up afterwards).

Seeing my DH looking rufty tufty at the weekend when he's been in a suit all weekend and thinking 'phoar'.

My puppy

*in a suit all week

Looking forward to a roast dinner cooked by Dp tonight followed by catching up with Masterchef en famille.

Also, DH when he's tired and crumpled in bed, absolutely refusing to let me get up because he wants to cuddle.

And watching my nephew trying to answer his own questions -"why do dogs bark? Is it because it's nice? No that's not it" "maybe to say hello? Or because they're hungry?" "don't tell me, I'll ask the dog" and off he goes. He's 5

Rolling over in bed in the middle of the night and knowing my husband is lying next to me ( he is in the army and I spend far too many nights wide awake missing him and worrying for his safety)

Watching our little grey lop eared bunny rabbit running and hopping around the garden.

Bath bombs

Aw this thread is making me fuzzy!

Honking geese.

My 7 year old daughter dressing her 4 year old brother.

Sunny weather or as my mam always called it "great drying out"

Nerdy teenage girls on the train reading extracts from their Walking Dead comics out loud to each other and giggling uncontrollably

An enormous Alaskan Mammut who lives near us; she weighs nine stone and enjoys being hugged by random children.

A full fridge and empty bins.

Group hugs in the kitchen

my dog snoring in front of the big heater

The little robin who appears whenever I disturb anything in the garden. I was raking moss and other skank out of the lawn this afternoon and sure enough he appeared and found all sorts (apparently) in the newly scratched surface of the lawn. The fact that it was a beautifully sunny spring afternoon had already made me disproportionately happy. I love being retired!