I love getting to know the bloggers I follow just a little better because it helps me relate on a more personal level with them. Hearing about their days, their joys, their struggles… it really helps build a community. So with that I thought a list of 101 things I love would be a great way to give all of you a little window into me. And since my blog is all about finding joy this is just a list full of things that almost always bring me joy!
Fair warning: This is kind of a brain dump post. As in anything and everything that I love could pop into my head at any moment and get added to the list. No specific order. Welcome to the insanity that is my mind.
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- Jesus (bet you didn’t see that one coming!)
- My Micah-pants (or that one)
- My kiddos (I know this one is a total surprise too!)
Okay, okay, you want to read about loves that you may not know… on to the rest of the list!
- Cast iron pans
- Flat whisks
- Cookie scoops
- Coffee syrups
- Heavy cream
- Afternoon snacks
- Open windows in spring
- Hearing my kids play nicely together
- Bedtime (can I get an amen?)
- Ikea (I’m so glad we don’t have one close by!)
- Aldi (I wish we had one close by!)
- Hearing my kids make up random songs (yeah, they are so my kids)
- Harry Potter
- Marvel Cinematic Universe
- LEGO! (how did this wait until #18 to make it on the list?)
- Photography (I need to get my camera out and play again)
- Reese’s Puffs cereal (nom, nom, nom)
- Peanut Butter M&Ms
- Red Velvet Cheesecake
- Peanut Butter Cheesecake with a Brownie bottom
- Homemade English muffins
- Catching up with an old friend
- The smell of grilling
- S’mores (especially with peanut butter cups instead of chocolate bars!)
- Cloth diapers
- Being part of MOPS (Mothers of PreSchoolers)
- Boxed mac & cheese (powdered cheese forever!)
- Rainbow chip frosting (I was so excited when it came back!)
- My fridge stash of buttercream
- Microwave cakes (my favorites are peanut butter and funfetti)
- Our Tuft & Needle mattress (it’s like being held gently in someone’s hands!)
- LEGO Dimensions (soooo much fun!)
- Veronica Mars (a tv show I could watch over and over)
- These chocolate chip cookies. Absolutely my favorite recipe.
- Breakfast pizza.
- Sausage and gravy (now I’m hungry)
- Teaching my kids a new board game.
- Hearing my big boys improving their reading skills (we are working on chapter books!)
- Micah’s cheesy pick up lines
- Twin language (or at least I think they know what the other is saying!)
- Homemade sausage mcmuffins with (over-easy) egg and cheese (maple sausage!)
- Freezer cooking
- Crispy crab rolls (spicy crab and cream cheese roll deep fried)
- Ichiban rolls (Spicy tuna, avocado, cream cheese and crab meat deep fried)
- All you can eat sushi places (and now I need a date night)
- Date night!
- Ice cream sundaes
- Homemade ice cream in this ice cream maker
- Scrubs (another tv show I can watch over and over again)
- Flip flop weather (almost anytime there’s no snow on the ground)
- 3 ingredient peanut butter cookies
- Micah’s three day weekends (even if the work days get long)
- Fresh made guacamole
- Vacuum lines on the carpet (and yet I don’t vacuum nearly as often as I should…)
- Clean sink in the morning (one of my monthly goals and it’s so nice!)
- Christmas lights! (I still have one strand up probably driving my neighbors bonkers)
- Christmas cookies (I’m not sure I could narrow it down at this point)
- Pizza (duh)
- Fish tacos (one of my favorite dishes to order since my family isn’t on board)
- Browsing Pinterest (this also may cause me severe time loss but food! crafts! fun!)
- Fixer Upper
- Fluffy, diner style pancakes (never firm and flat – blech!)
- Double stuff Oreos (single just doesn’t cut it anymore)
- Saucy stir fry noodles (which is why they are on the menu so often!)
- Potstickers
- When my kids say, “You’re the best mommy ever!” (yay, I haven’t permanently scared them yet!)
- When my kids enthusiastically eat something I cook and ask for seconds, thirds, ore more
- Sloppy toddler kisses (once they get older the sloppy is not so great)
- Kids helping with chores
- Sleeping in (it’s such a rare treat and my body doesn’t always cooperate but man it’s amazing when it happens!)
- Cuddles
- Netflix date nights (we have found some great – and not so great – movies this way)
- Coloring
- Fresh box of Crayola crayons (does any other brand really come close?)
- My Kitchen-aid mixer
- Blueberry bagels with strawberry cream cheese
- Rainbow after a storm
- Thunderstorms
- My black hoodie (I’ve owned it for at least 12 years now… I refuse to part with it)
- PJ pants
- Baby-wearing
- Breastfeeding (just passed 17 months with the little boys! wooo!)
- Peanut butter
- Doctor Who (so glad I stopped ignoring Micah when he’d ask me to join him!)
- My little boys saying, “Nuh-night” when we put them down for nap or bedtime.
- Audiobooks (it’s really the only way I get reading in these days)
- Cozy sweaters
- The burn after a good workout
- Loading up my cart on a store’s website and then not buying anything
- Writing (obviously or this blog thing wouldn’t be a thing 😛 )
- Being crafty (I’ve got some fun ideas to do this summer that I plan on sharing with you!)
- Dance (15 years as a dancer means it’s never out of my system)
- Rocking the babies to sleep (I know my days of this are numbered)
- Pedicures (I know I’m due before flip flop weather is really here for good)
- Spreading joy and encouragement
- Fuzzy slippers
- Peppermint mochas (no matter the season!)
- Hearing about what you love!
Shout it out – What do you love?
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