incontent.

Is that a word? Or is it malcontent? discontent?

Sometimes our little family gets the "I need" or "I want" -itis.  It's a terrible condition to live through.  There's a lot of whining and complaining that goes along with it.  Some feelings of "I deserve this or something even better" are common side effects.  People find it difficult to be happy and may take their feelings out on their brother by giving them dirty looks. Other side effects include frowning faces, sulking, wishing you had more money, and otherwise completely ignoring all the cool stuff in your life.

We have a board in our kitchen (it's made from those square magnet boards at Pottery Barn...we use four of them together) that is an always evolving, ever changing thing. Fingerprints optional.

It started out as my inspiration board for how to decorate my studio and our house. 

I got tired of looking at that so I took everything down and called it the joke board. Anyone that wanted to could write a joke and post it on the board.  Many of them were 6 year old humor that made no sense what-so-ever and because they made no sense they always made you smile and most of the time you laughed. There were others that didn't make since that were created by 9 year old humor and so the 13 year old had to walk past the board and every time he saw them would have to say things like, "Why would anyone even post that?  It doesn't make one bit of sense. My jokes are awesome."  And so that would make a person laugh and roll their eyes and so...it was a joke board (in more ways than one) for a little while.

Now it is a Thankful Board.  I bought a whole bunch of different colored post-its because I thought a quilt-looking thing would look pretty darn snazzy.  Anyone that wants to, anytime they want to, can write a little something on a post-it and stick on the board.

It's a homemade remedy for "I-want-itis".

snazzy. LIFE.