【推荐2】Years ago, we celebrated our oldest son’s first birthday by holding a super party. I spent months ______, cutting out handmade banners（横幅）and making all kinds of decorations. I kept

I didn’t know exactly why I stuck to ______ a party like that, but I felt this unspoken ______. It was a feeling that my ______ as a mom and my love for my son were tied to how ______ this party was. Actually my son was turning one year old, and he had no idea what was going on. ______, this clearly meant nothing to him.

I tried to ______ other people and maybe even prove something to myself, only to find it made me ______. On his birthday, I put on a ton of makeup（化妆品） to _____ my stress and smiled to our ______ even though I nearly broke down. It was the ______ party because of the memories attached to it! I ruined a ______ memory for me as a mother and decided to make a ____.

Last weekend, we celebrated my other son Hudson’s sixth birthday. He asked a Ninjago theme, so a week before the party, I searched Amazon (a shopping website) and ______ a banner and some basic party materials as he ______. On that day, we ordered a big meal and used disposable（一次性的）plates to avoid hours of cleaning up. The party was ______ but perfect. As Hudson went to bed that night, he told me it was his best birthday ever.

Parents’______ for kids does not lie in the complexity of celebrating kids’ birthday.

【推荐3】It was the first time that I had noticed him properly. Before this, Jack had just been a(n) _________ young fellow and seldom left me a deep _________. But the other day he _________ my attention by asking me to shut up.

"It's just a garden spider（蜘蛛）; don't cry!" he said, looking at the animal _________ more affection than I could gather for most humans. I had indeed _________ — I was in the front seat of a jeep and the spider was on my leg! My eyes and mouth were fixed with fear by the creature.

I thought he would pick it up and _________ it out of the jeep. He did something else. He pushed his leg towards mine and held out the cloth of his trousers to _________ let the spider crawl(爬) up his own leg. The spider climbed a little bit and then stuck to his knee. I sat there _________ the spider for any sudden movement — if a tiger had walked by then, I wouldn’t have even looked at it.

I was _________ that the man was completely at ease with a spider __________ landing on his knee. I wondered about this man, who thought about the spider with such kindness, which was __________ for me. When did I lose my sympathy towards the __________? Now, when faced with a row of ants, my first reaction is __________ to cry or attack them. I just skip over them __________ we both carry on. Thanks to Jack, I learned to live with the not so beautiful bits of __________.

【推荐1】My watch stopped working a few days ago. The band _________ without my noticing, causing it to fall to the floor while I was doing some _________. As I stepped back to _________ some other clothes, I heard a terrible sound. I _________ the watch and saw its face had been cracked. I saw that it was beyond _________ and sadly threw it into the garbage.

Strangely, though it is _________, I find that I have no wish to buy a new one. _________ it is because in this digital age clocks are _________. They are on my wall, in my car, on my computer, and even on my phone. I even needn’t _________ my head if I want to see what time it is.

I think that the real reason, __________, is that as I grow older, my relationship with __________ itself has changed. While I feel as __________ as ever, time in this world has gone by too fast. The little baby boy I once rocked to __________ to my chest is now a 23-year-old man who is bigger than me. Young and __________ adults have now grown old, sickened and even __________. Now I can see that time cannot be kept. It flows on and on and carries us with it in a river of __________. The days go by, our hair turns __________, our skin becomes wrinkled, and our bodies wear out. Looking at our __________ cannot slow it down. All we can do is to embrace it and __________ each day we are given.

So do your best to spend each __________ moment here with joy. Do your best to spend your days living, laughing, hugging, helping, praying and smiling. Do your best to spend your seconds here loving yourself, and others.

【推荐2】When I was young, I loved and really did well in drawing and art. I won awards, got constant attention, and even saw my face in the _________ and on television because of my natural ability to _________.

Most people who happen to come across something that they are good at are _________ to take it and run with it. Of course, my life was no _________ . From teachers, to principals, to family members, everyone seemingly had a ton of advice to give me in regards to art.

All the while, my true desire was _________ . I entered poetry, essay, and short - story contests and _________ them all. It was such a contrast from my artistic _________ experience! It was so bad that I _________ a good friend who told me once, “If you are so good at drawing why do you even care about writing? _________ drawing!”

Though well intended, eighteen years later I'm ____________ I didn't take his words to heart. Years went by with me still writing and still occasionally entering ____________ . It wasn't until my first year in college that I finally got honorable ____________ in a poetry contest. As a writer I've truly ____________.

I'm sure there are things in your life that are ____________ and yet, rewarding. Endurance（忍耐）, especially when it comes to things you truly love is essential. Take some time to devote some more energy to the “thing” that didn't come ____________ and see what happens.

【推荐3】I was walking in a park on a cool autumn morning. The view was charming, and a pleasant breeze(微风) was kissing my face _______.

Then I saw a mother and her little baby. The mother wore _______ clothes that seemed to be found in a dustbin—How easy it is for fortunate people to _______ away things they don’t need, and they do this _______ thinking of the unfortunate! She was holding her baby, protecting her from the morning _______ and expecting some money from strangers so that she could _______ food for both of them. It was then that I realized how _______ I had been in my whole life for living a rich life.

Then a man _______ some money and food to the mother, and as she took them, her face was _______ as if she had been the happiest person in the world. And why not, she could now ________ her baby at least for the day.

Actually, happiness doesn’t ________ luck, your financial or your physical conditions, but only on yourself. It is just a ________ in your hands. If you choose to be happy, ________ can stop you from it.

How ________ it is that one observation(观察) can change your life! Life has a lot to offer if you observe very closely. One who observes can ________ real happiness.