The 'Happy Dance'!!

I have decided that I will tell you all about how the 'happy dance' got started in my life....
Now, I know some of you may have already heard that term and may even have a 'happy dance' of your own that you do, but for me, this was something different that I believe has made me into the person I am now.
A few years back, I was wanting to make a strawberry dessert. I had the recipe and I was determined to get er done! One of the ingredients was Strawberry Cool Whip. (I have not lately needed this item so I am wondering if it still exists...)
Anywho, I went from store to store and it was not to be found. I was in a town about 20 miles from us going to Walmart and there is a grocery store there that I had been in before but did not make a practice of stopping at all that much...but something (I think it was God..) told me to check. I went in and made the rounds..you know, picking up some things to buy that I really didn't need all that much but I didn't want to write a check for a container of Cool Whip if I indeed found it. The kids were with me...we were humming along and I was getting to the freezer section. And wouldn't ya know......THERE IT WAS!!!! I am tellin' ya, I was so EXCITED that I just started to boogie right there. I was doing the 'woo woo'!! and turning around and shaking my booty right there in the freezer aisle. My kids were MORTIFIED!! I was soooooo happy and I didn't care who knew. I mean, really, I am in a town where practically no one knows me and this crazy lady is 'gettin' down' right there in the store. Who gives a rip?! I got my cool whip and that was all that mattered!
Now, this story may not mean a whole bunch to you all, but I had spent many a years with self-esteem problems, not caring how I dressed all that much, didn't like buying clothes and stuff for me (my kids always used to say,'Mom, you didn't get anything for yourself'), I thought I was happy but there was something niggling me and keeping me subdued a lot. I got to praying to God for joy and for friends. I never really had a whole lot at all. I was NOT a popular person in school...that may have been a good thing now that I think back, but I felt as tho everyone was staring at me and thinking...'ewwww, who is THAT!'.
Well, people, God answered me in a BIG way on a Saturday morning those many years back now (about 3, I think..) and I have shaken off that 'crap'...excuse me there...I am the happiest I have ever been in my life now and I really don't give a hoot n' holler what anyone thinks of me if I am just being me. I do care about and love people, don't get me wrong, but I sure don't pay any attention to those who criticize me anymore. I live for an audience of ONE and what He (God) thinks is all that matters to me. (Ok, so I am concerned what Sweetheart thinks of me but he married me and he certainly knows me pretty well and he's used to my silliness!!) It was all in my head that I was some freak. And when I did the 'happy dance', it was so FUN to be free of what others might think. Let em go ahead and think what they want. I am me and I like who God made me to be!!
(I could write a book......)

This got a bit long, but I wanted to tell you to see how God is GOOD!!