Preface:
It’s Sunday morning. Jaydee is at my feet drawing the people she loves. Last night she was asking me how to spell various words. Later she tagged our bedroom door with a sticky note with the following message:
I like
Granny
because she is
fun to
cook play.
Everyone needs a love letter like that sometimes. Yesterday was my lucky day.
This morning I added it to my ever growing happy list. It’s been part of my morning routine for almost a week. It’s helping. At least my day starts happily.
Happy List, part 2: January 26, 2020
23. My love note from Jaydee (see above).
24. Putting a Christmas tree up.
25. Cooking at home on New Year’s Eve.
26. A really good biscuit.
27. My new glasses–more like Rachel Maddow & less like Clark Kent.
28. Moo notebooks. They lay flat. They are the size of the “little” notebooks we required sophomores to have for note-taking. I found them when I ordered my business cards there.
29. Even though it’s a gas fireplace, having a fire every cold morning. I love walking down to the kitchen & seeing it across the main room.
30. Any new planner or journal before my handwriting gets crappy and I’m crossing things out all over the place.
31. Walking the Vallarta beach with Jim in the mornings when we are there.
32. The Signature Taco Tour in Vallarta. All the tours. Hugging Eric (the owner). He is a world class hugger.
33. Willa skating at the Gaylord Hotel and being independent and making new friends all over the place.
34. Tea in the morning.
35. When my fingernails are long and pretty–rare since the second round of cancer.
36. Getting all the laundry done. This is where I see the myth of Sisyphus the most. I understand I need to smile at the gods and embrace the never-ending loads of laundry with joy and I need to be just like Cool Hand Luck beating the man. I’m not there yet. So far, I celebrate having one day when the laundry bin is empty. Baby steps.
37. Chris’s sense of humor on Facebook.
38. Willa loving to read books.
39. Sammi being a teenager and fighting to be recognized as a teenager. She is challenged, but she is not a kid.
40. A perfect piece of toast.
41. My fuzzy blue hat from the Estes Wool Market years ago.
42. My wedding rings and all the stories that go with them.
43. Reading the book section of the NYTimes on Sunday mornings and writing down the books I want to read someday.
44. CBS Sunday Morning. I love that show.
45. Jim bringing me tea at Jenny in the mornings.
46. My Fairy Slipper Orchid drawing. The black balances out the pink . I don’t like pink.
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48. Sharpened pencils to draw with.
49. Thinking about the alphabet prints I have in mind.
50. My headphones so I can listen to audio books when I do treadmill work.
51. Jim making me hot chocolate before bedtime now and then.
52. Jim making me popcorn. He pops it on the stove the way my mom did. She tossed in pecans though.
53. Jim folding all the laundry while I’m doing other things.
54. Jim peeling an orange and offering me sections. It reminds me of Salinger and tangerines.
That’s enough for now. Thanks for listening.
Katherine