Please read these with your own list in mind. Post your “happy stuff” at the bottom and we’ll see how many we can get…
3. Missionary boy phone calls on Christmas day
4. Fleece slippers
5. 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 from “the Holiday”
- 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
- “Seabiscuit“
- 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 Sunshine from “Remember the Titans”
- Crocheted dust ruffles
- Old buttons
-
“Little Lost Baby”
- Lousia May Alcott books
- 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
- Peter Brinholt music
- 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
- Kilts
- 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“
- Twelfth Night
- Christmas Eve
- Stuffing
- Kisses on the hand
- The Merriam-Webster Dictionary
- Pastry Blenders
- Little girls in dresses and tights
by Eloise Wilkin
- 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