Things That Make Me Happy

• warm chocolate chip cookies and milk



• bouncing a rubber ball



• finding something that I thought I had lost forever



• adults asking (then listening) about my life



• potato soup in a bread bowl



• color-coded anything



• knowing that God has a perfect plan for my life



• organizing anything (drawers, school supplies, my friends' lives, you name it: I'll organize it)



• turning off my alarm and going back to sleep



• chocolate milk



• running past a house that recently did laundry and smelling the detergent and dryer sheets



• watching old home videos



• wondering at how I survived my childhood after watching old home videos



• ducks (any type)



• a really good book



• writing in this blog



• knowing my future husband is out there somewhere and wondering if he is thinking about me



• making up impossible life situations



• going home after a long day



• people that remember something that is going on in my life and ask me about it



• peanut butter, chocolate, and pretzels



• genuinely friendly strangers