Things that make me smile

Okay, I am trying a new thing. I am going to make a list of all the things that make me smile.

1. Rain - I love the way everything looks both while it is raining and after. I even love the hard, beat everything down rain. The kind that you can't see through even with your windshield wipers on high. I love it!

2. Music - We have music on at our house nearly all the time. I dream about music while I sleep, strange I know. Actually, it is more like my dreams have background music. I love almost all types of music as mentioned in previous post. I love everything from James Taylor to Jack Johnson, depending on my mood

3. Getting E-mail - I love, love getting emails from people, not junk but a good old fashioned
letter. It always makes my day, even if it is an incomplete sentence that doesn't make any sense at all from my youngest brother. I still love it.

4. Mountains - The view from my front lawn. Simply amazing

5. Short Stop Lights -

6. Meeting new friends - I love new people. It always makes my day to have a conversation with any adult, but I love friends.

7. Football - This hasn't always been the case. I used to despise it, absolutely despise it, but now it makes me smile.

8. When random things make me think of my Grandma.

9. Camping - Especially in the canyon above our old home sniff sniff

10. Unexpected gifts - We have had so much fun with this old thing.

11. Lilies - especially star gazers

12. New shoes - Who doesn't love new shoes, I mean come on they are shoes for crying out loud!

13. Preschool - Two complete hours with no being told what to do or when to do it. I am talking about my 4 1/2 year old. Yes he does boss me around. I like the break.

14. The Move Theatre - I don't get out much if this makes me smile, but it does, it really does.

15. My nieces and nephews

16. The fall season. This time of year is wonderful. I love all of the colors in the sky and on the leaves. It is beautiful.

17. Lunch, speaking of which I am hungry. I'm am going to update this later. I am a little disappointed with myself that only 17 things make me smile and food is one of them.

What makes you smile?

The end

Okay folks, it is all over. The end of the world is near. I made waffles from scratch this morning and my children have officially become obsessed with Johnny Cash. Hunter walks around saying, "Hello, I"m Johnny Cash." "My name is Sue, how do you do? Now your gonna die!" Does anyone think this could potentially be a problem?

I don't know which to be more worried about, the fact that I cook all the time, or our background music contains the phrase "son of a bitch" almost every other line. I am not sure about this stay at home momma stuff. I love music, and so do my kids. A neighbor of mine informed me that children should not listen to Johnny Cash or Soft Cell (Tainted Love.) No one told me this before. My stay at home mother manual didn't mention it once.

I'm going to fail miserably!