Things I love....
- when my new Time magazine arrives each week (yes, I'm a geek. News excites me)
- feeling a sense of community with my family, friends, and neighbors
- having a mechanic in the family
- supporting local artisans by buying homemade goods
- my mother's enthusiasm for knitting
- my mother's enthusiasm for everything
- when Tiana wraps her arms around my neck and says, "Mommy, I really love you!"
- the taste of coffee in the morning
- the relatively little effort involved in making a cup of coffee with my Keurig
- thinking about Maui
- deep dish chocolate chip cookie ice cream pies
- the sun
- wearing a tank top in February
- being barefoot
- my friends, because quality is most certainly more important than quantity
- the Honda family (not the car -- people at my church)
- Joel Stein's column in Time magazine (99% of the time. I kind of want to write him a nasty letter about the misinformation he spread about the Common Core Standards in a December issue).
- that the brilliantly sarcastic student in my sixth period class has figured out I intentionally don't hear the things he mutters under his breath
- Flocabulary
- the kindness of strangers
- that Tiana loves our minister and yells, "Paater Gey Ree!" whenever she sees him
- my bi-weekly produce delivery from "Farm Fresh to You"
- how my husband will pretty much do anything for me
- my crock pot (by far the best kitchen gadget ever invented)
- salsa
- garlic
- the view from my back porch
- my son's tiny neighborhood school
- teaching at a charter school
- Kelly Gallagher's book Write Like This
- having thirteen cousins and a huge extended family
- dark chocolate covered raisins from the bulk bins at Sprouts
- that I got lucky with one boy and one girl
- family photos, especially when I occasionally look good in one
- the feeling of sand between my toes
I totally agree with you!!
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