*Please note the following giveaway is open to Canada only
How do you add joy to your everyday? How do you make sure you don’t get lost in the crush of the morning routine, the madness of work – whether that be in the office or at home – and the pure crazy that happens at the end of the day. Surviving life in the suburbs can be a challenge. Kids, carpool, the dog, the cat, grocery shopping, bills to pay, the list goes on and on, and it’s not hard to become overwhelmed. The best, the only way I know how to live my best life, is to make a point to stop and smell the happiness in every day.
Each morning I wake up and make a dozen little decisions to help create a joyful day. I pay it forward when I can. Spend time with family. Squeeze in a date night whenever possible and do my best to put a twist on the more mundane tasks of the day. Chores aren’t quite as dull if you can find the joy in them.
- Grocery shopping isn’t quite as boring if you make a point of purposely complimenting at least one person you run into along the way.
- Carpool is made so much better by singing at the top of my lungs to some very sappy Country tunes. Bonus points if you can embarrass your daughter at the same time.
- Cooking dinner is much more fun with help. Enlist the family as sous chefs. More hands make less work and ensure much-needed quality time. Some deep and wonderful conversations can happen while you chop the carrots and stir the sauce.
- Shh don’t tell, but while I fold the laundry I crank the music and dance like nobody is watching. It’s the perfect time to take a deep breath, to stop and smell the happiness. This is made even easier thanks to the NEW Gain Botanique scent. The sweet nature-inspired scents of White Tea & Lavender and Orange Blossom Vanilla help to make doing laundry a pleasure.
Do you stop and smell the happiness in your everyday life? Why not start with your laundry! Turn on the music, ask for help, and choose a laundry detergent that is a good choice for your family and all their laundry needs. NEW Gain Botanique now offers a simpler, more responsible detergent with vibrant scent-sations that will transport you away from the laundry room and directly into nature with every load. The smell is fresh, crisp, clean and gentle. I love that NEW Gain Botanique provides an amazing, nature-inspired scent experience and is gentle enough to use on all of my families clothes, even my daughters with sensitive skin. It’s a product that makes you feel good, and you can feel good about using!
Why I love Gain Botanique:
- Gain Botanique provides an amazing, nature-inspired scent experience in a 65% plant-based formula.
- Gain Botanique is inspired by scents from nature with White Tea & Lavender and Orange Blossom Vanilla.
- Free of dyes, chlorine, phosphates and optical brighteners.
- Hypoallergenic.
- Safe for use, even on baby clothes.
- HE-Compatible—Gain Botanique works in all machines
- Gain exists to bring people happiness through scent and wants to encourage Canadians to “Stop and Smell the Happiness”.
NEW Gain Botanique is bringing the joy of the outdoors, indoors by surprising unsuspecting shoppers at the Toronto Eaton Centre with a botanical wonderland filled with nature-inspired sights and scents. Can you imagine? Do you want to see how these shoppers reacted? Oh my goodness, watch this video for all the fun!
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Now I have something else to make you smile. A giveaway! Thanks to the wonderful people at Gain, one lucky reader of How To Survive Life In The Suburbs will WIN a year’s supply of Gain Botanique!! (6 bottles of product)
To enter, simply tell me, how do you make the time to stop and smell the happiness? Then use the Rafflecopter form below to earn those extra entries.
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This giveaway is open to Canadians only, excluding Quebec, and to all those who have reached the age of majority in their Province. Closes December 15, 2017. Prize fulfillment is the responsibility of Gain. This giveaway is not associated with Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, or Twitter.
Disclosure: This is a sponsored post. In exchange for this post, I have received perks in the form of products and/or compensation. All opinions on this blog are my own.
I love sitting on the beach with my toes in the sand , soaking up some sun, watching my boys running around in the water and sand giggling! I soak up lots of that happiness, nothing makes me happier!!!
I make an appointment with myself to do something for me. No one is allowed to make me reschedule.
I do go for walks and try to relax and just enjoy nature.
I try and take some me time everyday and encourage my kids to take their time and savour the both the special and the ordinary moments in life.
I make time in the afternoon to stop and relax with a cup of coffee.
When I take my hot shower, it’s when I can stop and smell happiness.
I go for a walk with our dogs on our property. Thankfully we have trails and a creek and it’s so peaceful It keeps the dogs and me happy.
I literally smell the flowers, in my own garden. I love the smell of lilacs in the spring. The smell comes into the house through open windows.
I make the time to stop and smell the happiness ever evening when i turn off the outside World and curl up with a glass of wine and a book
For me, if I can, it’s going camping.. getting back to nature without phones or computers really clears the mind. When I’m at home though it’s having a bath. Just alone time with quiet, soaking away, releasing my worries.
Every morning, I stop and smell the happiness with my morning coffee.
I set aside 30 minutes a night where I drink a cup of tea, while reading a book and snuggling next to my fiance or dog
I will stop all the madness & sit down in the sunroom Put on my diffuser with lavender/camomile oils So relaxing 😌No noise No phones Just peace & quiet 🙏🏼❤️
I like to sit by the water. Any water will do, it relaxes me.
I find that sometimes it is hard to stop and smell the happiness. But, each day I turn off my phone and enjoy a nice hot bath so that I can relax! Even it is 30 minutes – my family knows that it is a do not disturb time.