Many times in life, your happiness or sadness has already been decided…by you, by your attitude, and by your expectation of what is and what will be.  To hear someone say, “just decide to be happy each day and you will be” sounds too simple (even to me at times), but there is power behind the words of people that say those sort of things.  One of Mom’s (Lori’s) favorite things to ask at the dinner table was “tell me what the best part of your day was”.  For some reason, just knowing I had to come up with something each day to tell made me look for the ‘better’ in each of my day’s with her