Aug. 30, 2008

The Little Things

When I was younger I counseled at a camp and someone there had a book.  I think it was called 14,000 Things To Be Happy About.  I'm not quite sure that's the same book I saw way back when, but I googled a description of it and that's the book that came up.  It does look sort of familiar.  Anyway, it's a very long list of, well, things to be happy about.  Things like flannel sheets, tobogganing, and sun burning off the morning fog.  Today I've got my own little list of random things to be happy about, because today I'm feeling very content. 1.  Being all set up for the new school year.  All of last year's schoolwork has been sorted and put into portfolios, desks were scrubbed, and new supplies were put into place.  Everyone even got their own scissors. 2.  A husband who comes home with surprises.  Yesterday Mike got me Eclipse, by Stephanie Meyer.  It's the third book in the Twilight series, which I'm LOVING!  Reading these books is a reason to be happy all by itself.  I was number 170 of a 600 person waiting list at the library, and now I have my very own copy.  Bliss. 3.  A boy who's so cute you can hardly stand it, and who's going through a baseball cap wearing stage. 4.  Kids that on their own decided to decorate the school room for a "back to school celebration."  5.  The movie The Wizard of Oz.  I mean the old one with Judy Garland.  We watched it as a family the other day and I smiled pretty much the whole way through just remembering how much I adored it as a child and how special it was because it only  came on TV once a year.  It was an event paralleled only by the once a year appearance of The Sound of Music. 6.  Little girls with tousled hair, still in pajamas, who call their grandmas and smile. Incidentally, as I was downloading pictures from our camera I found something that doesn't make it into my personal happiness book: Huge hairy spiders walking across kitchen floors like they own the place. Sue

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