Little Gratitudes

  • The first day driving with your window down and the music up!
  • Putting on a jacket you haven't worn in a while and finding a dollar in the pocket!
  • Fresh sheets
  • New shoes
  • The first robin, crocus or housefly of spring
  • The thank you whispered for unanswered prayers when you see an ex-boyfriend at the grocery store.
  • Watching a favorite childhood movie again as an adult.
  • The smell of 'home' when you first open the front door.
  • Stopping to buy a chocolate bar and eating it in secret on the way home.
  • Taking your socks off.
  • Putting your feet up on the coffee table.
  • Popcorn made the old fashion way.
  • Cadbury Creme Eggs.
  • Leftovers that remind you of the delighful company of the night before.
  • How kids think you can buy a bicycle for $1.00
  • Getting all the green lights.
  • Butter not Margarine
  • When everyone gets into the movie.
  • Watching the footprints you leave after walking through a puddle
  • The first BBQ burgers of the season.
  • Miniature pastries
  • Inside jokes
  • When the rain stops just before you have to go outside
  • Going to bed knowing you don't have to get up in the morning.
  • When the birthday person brings doughnuts to the office.
  • Baby giggles
  • 1 day of sun after 6 days of rain.
  • Midnight snacks
  • Those little mess ups on live tv.
  • Phone calls out of the blue that make you smile.
  • Catching a Momma bird feeding her babies.
  • Quiet Sunday afternoons
  • flipflops
  • Cartoons
  • Ice Coffee
  • When someone asks "How are you today?" and really wants to know the answer.
  • Fresh Herbs
  • Washing the car or rather...a freshly washed car!
  • Winning a door prize.
  • The breeze on the front porch
  • Clean floors
  • Dads fixing ponytails
  • Tenting in the backyard
  • When the bird poop lands beside you, not on you!
  • New issue of your favourite magazine
  • Watching the sun come up.
  • Allergy remedies
  • Glass cleaner (or rather clean windows)
  • Really good pie (and ice cream)
  • Someone yells "car!"
  • That moment when you realize that everyone is singing along to the radio
  • Watching the dog dream
  • Piles of Pumpkins
  • Indian Summer
  • When the cat walks across the kebagadlbsldihsidbvsdbkbnasfjdbn;sdfn
  • New Pillows
  • Listening to a child read
  • Bite sized candy bars
  • Finding out someone is saying nice things about you.
  • School Pictures
  • Vaccuum marks in the rug
  • When your favourite hockey player gets cleared to play again.
  • Laundry that gets folded and put away.
  • MOvember also ends
  • Manderin oranges
  • Christmas specials
  • Mistakes that turn into opportunites
  • Homemade Fudge
  • A freshly purged closet
  • Walking the dog.
  • Beautiful January days
  • Carpet Cleaner
  • Paper Airplanes
  • Nights when the tv stays off
  • Extra mittens
  • Tissues with lotion in them
  • Teaching old dogs, new tricks
  • Snowplows
  • Shopping for a motorcycle
  • Sleeping in just a little
  • 1/2 price sales
  • Hot Biscuits
  • Roll up the Rim
  • Good sports
  • Scented soaps
  • March Break
  • Twitterpaited cats
  • Tomato soup
  • Belts
  • Planning Dinner with Friends
  • Putting on your spring jacket and finding coffee money in the pocket
  • Your favourite song playing when the alarm goes off
  • The minute after you hand your paper in
  • Cats basking in the sun
  • Being the person blocking everyone's way in grocery store catching up with an old friend
  • Little kids measuring their palm against yours
  • Waking up on Wednesday surprised that it's not Tuesday.
  • Sleeping with the windows open
  • Good Forcasts for long weekends
  • Kids who keep pet worms
  • Watching cats hunt flies
  • When the rain comes and the headache disappears
  • A towel can be a superhero cape
  • Big kids who aren't too big for Snuggles
  • Booking a holiday
  • The missing 13th floor
  • Finding the lid for plasticware - 1st try!
  • In season strawberries
  • Naps on the couch
  • The little crevis tool for the vacuum
  • Planting flowers
  • When kids pick the shoes you showed them in the first place
  • Picnics do not need a picnic spot.
  • A cardboard box and a marker can entertain for hours
  • Rain
  • Closet Space
  • Passing on things that other people can use
  • You can put anything into cold pasta and call it a salad
  • Corn on the Cob & the crazy butter sculpture left in it's wake
  • Cleaning out the fridge & finding the bottle of hot sauce your know you bought
  • realizing just how little your kids still are when you talk to them on the telephone.
  • the little jar of 'junk' by the phone. Funny how little bits of uselessness can hold such meaning as not to be thrown away.
  • Finally getting the popcorn out of your teeth
  • when the dog sleeps in
  • Choosing NOT to say the thing you would regret
  • Just enough milk in the pitcher for coffee
  • Pie for Breakfast
  • Singing in the car
  • Fall Walks
  • Eating the last piece of pie straight out of the pie plate
  • volunteer coaches
  • Books that surprise you
  • Anything with 'miniature' in the name
     
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