Things That Make Me Happy

Inspired by the Happy Days blog post about the importance of naming that which makes you happy, I'm making a list. It's not all-inclusive, in any kind of order, or in any way permanent. This is what makes me smile right now:

• the theme song of "Toot and Puddle"--"a boomerang flies but always returns, home where it belongs!"
  
• pictures of cupcakes
• Bud's Yankees shirt
• Sis asleep in her big bed, completely dwarfed by her fluffy comforter
• Mama's snoring
• watching the kids during their swim lessons--Sis is a very serene and graceful swimmer and Bud's face radiates with prides as he kicks and paddles
• the tissue-paper collaged picture frames we all made at church last year, now filled with pictures of Gommie's recent visit
• the Imagination Movers' song "Have Some Fun Today"
• our growing squash plant
• the way Sis ran to me when I got home yesterday
• oatmeal scones with butter and marmalade
• Greek yogurt with marmalade
• diet Dr. Pepper (caffeine free)
• our cat Hermione curled up on my rainbow fleece blanket
• accumulated rain in our rain gauge
• blogs by my friends
• my lemon verbena soap
• the mug I painted with acrylics last night
• my playgroup
• penguins
• the garden Sis has "planted" on couch pillows in the living room, complete with bugs
• Bud's Green Day rock concert drum kit "house" of couch pillows
• thunder and lightning
• homemade pillowcases

(the list keeps changing, even in just the last hour)