These particular children
These perfect grandbabies
Missionary boy phone calls on Christmas day
Fleece slippers
A bag of Cheetoes–baked not fried
Painted toenails
The smell of real Christmas trees
A well stocked bird feeder
Picking raspberries
Real Hot Chocolate with real whipped cream
Wearing pigtails
Striped socks
Bright pink mittens
A reading lamp
Men with Scottish accents
Baby kittens
Stone cottages
Cherries from a roadside stand
A backyard full of autumn leaves
Thundery rainstorms
Cheerios
Snowed in with everyone home
Gas prices right this second
The power of prayer
Thatched roofs
“Baby First Step”
Indian corn
Music boxes where you can see the insides
Porch swings
A sister
Baby kisses
Pecan logs without cherries
Pumpernickel bread with Swiss cheese
The picture book, “The Relatives Came.”
Old photos of total strangers
Caramel apples
Metal crochet hooks with taped handles
Christmas lights in very tall trees
Canopy beds with curtains
PeeWee baby dolls
Football games
Very old houses with very old trees
Jack in the Box tacos
Border’s gift cards
Surfer hair
Crocheted dust ruffles
Old buttons
“Little Lost Baby”
Beloved crazy people with New Year’s fireworks
Being read to
Flute music
Beany my love
Vlasic Kosher Dill Spears
Farm houses
A Brother
Embroidery scissors
Rainbow Brite
The “Out of Africa” soundtrack
Summerfest
Cable tights
Light purple
Cinnamon pinecones
Mourning doves
Creamers
Rootbeer floats in grama’s backyard
Christmas cards with photos inside
Letters with foreign stamps
Wind chimes
Gift baskets with really cool stuff
Jane Austen movies
Wool Felt
My dad in a kilt
Pink malt balls
Babies born gently
Snapset pools
Maxfield Parrish paintings
Baby fingers and toes
Cute boys with big feet
Freeze dried ice cream
Church steeples
Old friends that come back
Icicles
Waterfalls
Free range giraffes
Button up sweaters
“Goose Girl”
Christmas Eve
Stuffing
Kisses on the hand
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Pastry Blenders
Little girls in dresses and tights
Pink and purple petunias
Ballet Slippers
My sweet Mom
My cute daddy
My you have a way with words – you can even make lists enchanting. Thanks for helping me remember many thankful things I left off my list. But really “freeze dried ice cream”???
Here’s to 2009 and the 100’s of thankful things that await us.
I’ll bring you some!
Awesome list!!! 🙂 I love that you put pictures in too!!! There are sooo many more though… let’s keep going!!!
And yes… Lynette freeze dried ice cream is freaking GREAT!!! 😉 I eat it!!! ***:D***
From Tracy:
1. Working Dishwasher
2. More than 1 car
3. First Kisses
4. Baby Smiles
5. Thick Curtains
I think you all are about the most well rounded people ever to come to this earth. You enjoy sooooooooooooo many different aspects of life and I think it’s so terrific. Thanks for your comments and love on my blog and yes I’m in for a movie night. Things that make me happy are: Letters from Missionary sons, music, flowers growing in the yard, fruit trees to pick from and eat sweet juicy fruit, having a quiet afternoon to myself, playing board games with friends or family, listening to people sing who have beautiful voices (something I’ll have in the next life), and reading friends blogs!!
Great list, some of those bring back great memories…
heres a few to add
Webcam so I can see and talk to my loved ones that are far away
Phone calls from a 3 year old grandbaby to say “I love you Grams!” and text messages from my kids that say they love me and to have a blessed day!
1. mornings where your husband gets up and feeds the kids and dresses them without waking you up.
2. having money to pay for what you need and can do without the want.
3. soon to be 3 beautiful girls that love each other more than I did with my own siblings.
1. Hot breezy summer days and cool, loose clothes and sandals
2. having my husband cuddled up by my side instead of deployed in the war.
3. Eating a perfect, fresh, delicious meal with people you love
4. Being in awe at something so beautiful, that you forget yourself and are encompassed by the emotions it brings to you.
5. A warm summer night with crickets chirping while you sit out of the porch reading a book occasionally reminiscing about a night like this when you were younger.
6. The amazing, fulfilled, proud feeling you get after a great run where you feel like you have the power to achieve anything
7. Having the confidence to look in the mirror and say “god I’m goregous” and paying no attention to what the media says beauty is
8. Marking something off your “to achieve this year list” and feeling the pride of accomplishment swell inside you,
9. The moment you realize the person you’ve secretly disliked is infact disliked by everyone in the office. (terrible, I know)
10. Knowing that whatever terrible event happen to me, no matter how bleak or torturous, that I will have my husband, family and friends ALWAYS there to pick me up, dust me off and help me through it