MY LIST.

I started to call it "Things I'm thankful for." And then it morphed into more than that...things and people and ideas that make my life better or make me smile. Random.

I saw somewhere where someone had made a list of a hundred, and I thought, "No way could I ever come up with that many."

And then I couldn't stop.

Here they are, just like in my notes, no caps.

There are more than a hundred. If you want to wade through them all, wonderful. Mostly it was just for me. A nice distraction, a nice reminder of how many good things there are in life. Sometimes, we need a reminder.

Stick five or so of yours in the comments and add to my joy :-)

front porches
new books
sean hannity
my laptop
eleven years of grandchildren
amazon prime
new white rockers
clothes my mother gives me
sending flowers
john denver and the muppets for christmas
cornbread with honey
pink. yeah, pretty much anything
advent
surprises
biblegateway.com
featherbeds and down comforters.
kids who love each other. except on days when they nearly kill each other.
dental floss
teaching a child to read
the crowd at thanksgiving
baby wipes. for all us babies
graph paper
aubrey's apple crisp
granny science
dave's decaf. just dave in general
lang calendars
pei wei
remembering grandma's lemon tree
dave barry
heavy-weight sheet protectors
working with lyric
dirk's bowtie pasta
schoolhouse rock
old books
kristen's pear cream pie
HOPE moms
memories of mt. lebanon
google earth
cj's bread
knowing i raised a kid who can tutor algebra
peggy noonan peggy noonan peggy noonan
fuzzy socks
cracker barrel
my hubby's omelets
just about anything steph k. does
fiddler on the roof
shelter
christmas puzzles
no more vhs
wholehearted mother in february
nathan's feet not growing in two years
covenant of grace
winter
a china teacup you can see through
dee dee's christmas letters
williamsburg in the late fall
anything in the late fall
cup holders
pottery barn catalog
monrovia street fair
doilies. especially ones i made
claire burke original
mannheim steamroller
ikea
tim's christmas list
chicken and dumplings
my singer featherweight, circa 1946
finding just the right map
southwest airlines
writing a really good paragraph
a really sharp knife
taylor hicks
meeting christine at starbucks
sam's club
josh groban
a great key change
hand-written thank you notes
john caleb's sense of humor
the netflix queue
cheez-its. get your own box
days when my legs don't hurt
proofreading
bethany's way with children
jan karon
yellowstone
children's books
looking forward to vacation
michael reagan
a kerosene lamp
being forgiven
trish, eighteen years later
herakles
a great pedicure
the history channel
candace's smile
good bible markers
my notre dame sailing sweatshirt
hymns. especially, but not exclusively, pre-1850
a cello solo
shelley's blog
hilton honors points
a fire in the fireplace two days in a row
michael card
new jammies
loaning out homeschooling books
getting them back when i had forgotten about them
elisabeth elliot
people who stretch me
labor and delivery
the beach at bellows, even if it's cold
teaching a child to sing harmony for the first time
an empty dishwasher
my knight-in-shining-armor

UPDATE: Did I REALLY forget...

diet coke
la madeleine, especially the french lessons in the ladies' room
the smell of freshly mowed grass
mary engelbreit
the b&w photos on my dresser
monterey

And I did warn you it was random, right? No special significance to the fact that "labor and delivery" came right after "people who stretch me" :-)