A happy mindset is a happier life! 

I am a strong believer in creating your own happiness!
Never leave your happiness in the hands of others because that will make you depending on them to feel happy! Create your own happy bubbles!
After a long struggle with depression and losses I finally feel that I took control back over my own happiness!
I did not get there in three days, weeks and not even in a few months. The mindset I have now took years and at times I still find  bumps on my path! The biggest thing that changed in my own mindset is the way I react to those bumps! 

With  2017 almost ending I look back on a amazing yet hard year! Most of you, who follow my blogs know that I lost my father this year and it took me away from Steemit and the light for at least 3 months! It took me quit some time to gte myself together again but I did it! 2017 is also a year full of blogging and sharing thoughts, something I never thought I would do! When I started blogging here on Steemit I seriously had no idea what I was doing! ( At times I still have no clue! ) Slowly, my blogs became more personal and I found a way to blog that makes me happy! 

For a few weeks I have been thinking about what I want to do with my blog and the one thing that kept returning in my mind is that I want to share the happiness in the little things I find! At first, I wanted to start these "Finding happiness in little things!" blogs in 2018 but why wait?
I am not sure how many of these blogs I will post in a week but I am sure that in time I will find my way! Of course, I will not stop blogging about my art and Snekky will always be a HUGE part on my blogs here as well! I just want to show more happiness in a digital world! 

Today, I found my happiness in baking bread!  

Years ago, I baked my own bread every single day! I bought my supplies at a mill and I promised myself never to buy bread again! 

I think you can guess what happened! 

Correct, for some reason I stopped baking my own bread and gave away all my supplies! 

This year, I found a bread mix in my Christmas box! At first, I pushed the package away and did not look at it again for three days! But, I kept thinking about baking that bread! It was this complete set, mix, tin and all I had to add was water! This morning I saw the package again and right away a huge smile crept up on my lips! I remembered the happy feelings from years ago when I sniffed the scent of freshly baked bread in the morning! The taste on my tongue and the smile on my face when others told me that my bread was the best bread in the world! 

There are a million ways to bake bread and I know that I did not bake a super impressive bread today BUT.... Just look at that bread! That is pure happiness! 

This was a very simple way of baking bread because everything was already in the mix! The only thing I had to add was warm water! The mixing had to be done with a spoon in the tin to be followed by a resting moment of 30 minutes! The flower and water were super easy to mix yet I used my fingers instead of the spoon the package told me to use! I just had to feel the dough against my skin! I turned on the heater and watched the dough grow double in size before I had to bake it for 55 minutes! 

Slowly the scent of warm fresh bread started to fill my whole house and this intense happy feeling became master of my whole being! My eyes seriously sparkled like a million stars on a bright night sky when I saw the bread come from the oven! Perfection! 

All I can say right now is that the bread is gone! It just walked into my stomach and before I knew it I rubbed my belly and there was nothing left! Gosh, the difference in taste between freshly home baked bread and the one I ate the day before is HUGE! I am not saying that bread bought in a store is not good but... WOW, I seriously missed tasting and eating my own baked bread! 

Not only made did it make me happy, it also brought back a lot of memories from the time my mother still baked her own bread every morning when I was just a little girl! I can still see her working the dough in the kitchen and the fun we had when she asked me to help her!

Fun fact is that I paid out some of my SBD last week and..... I went online and bought some new supplies to start baking bread again! I looked into baking machines but I did not buy one of those. I think it makes me more happy to stick my fingers in the dough! I ordered tins and tomorrow I am going to buy some flower and other supplies! 2018 will be a year where I will wake up with the scent of fresh bread again!

Finding happiness in little things is baking your own bread! 

Thank you for reading my blog!
My name is @poeticsnake and I find happiness in little things!