I just got off of the phone with my baby sitter. We were talking about how nice it is that she is watching the boys so that we could go out tonight.
She started talking about her daughter's husband, her sons, and the other grown children she knows and how they are all nice guys. I said that her husband is nice too, since he puts up with her and all of us. She said that she couldn't ask for a nicer or better husband.

That got me thinking. She is happy, and I know they don't have a ton of money. They are scraping by just like we are. They also have a one and a half-year-old granddaughter. They do treat my children like her own, just like they did before their granddaughter was born.
It makes you see that you don't need to have money to have love. Sometimes we forget that. I have tried really hard this year to see that things don't buy happiness. Strange, it sort of started around January, when I started posting here.

What a great decision I made.