37 Things That Make Me Happy

Every year for the past few, two friends and I make what we call our "Happy Lists". We list something that makes us happy- one item for every year we have lived. This year I have 37, and all of them make me extremely grateful...

1) My seven-year-old's egg announcements (she collects them from the coop, then brings them inside with a town-crier-like announcement of the day's quantity)
2) Strawberry stands
3) Tropical smoothies
4) My buckwheat pillow
5) Babies
6) Homemade Ice Cream
7) Summer
8) My husband's warm feet
9) The beach
10) Peanut Butter M&Ms
11) Curly Girl, the book that freed me from my straight iron
12) Dinners on the back porch
13) My 14-year-old’s deep laugh
14) Lavender linen spray
15) Vanilla candles
16) Disneyland with the kids
17) Wool slippers
18) Mitford
19) Watching the kids with Pop Pop
20) Watching the girls sing and dance
21) Playing monopoly with my nine-year-old. Last time he went bankrupt and had more IOU's than I could count but insisted he still wasn't out of the game.

22) The Valley of Vision
23) Heather’s piano playing. The girl can play.
24) Hot showers
25) Memorizing Proverbs 31 with my little girls

26) Christmas cards
27) The hammock
28) Family movie nights
29) New growth on the grape vines
30) Sunday morning bagels
31) Speaking Spanish with my husband

32) Baby Lambs
33) Pedicures
34) Massages
35) Daily phone calls from my best friend
36) Mexican hot chocolate

37) Fresh Limes