Loving the things you have

I'm a bad blogger...I know.

I haven't blogged in a few days but I've been a busy girl. This morning I was thinking about how in the past year or so, there are a lot of things I've really truly learned to love that I wasn't so sure about before.

1. Of course, you knew I would list this one. Running. And running in the lower 60's, on a beautiful sunny day, out in nature, the birds singing and the bugs chirping away. I also love a beautiful soft breeze, not enough to be wind, but just enough to be refreshing.
2. Waking up early early early in the morning and making a pot of fresh beautiful brewed coffee and eating breakfast while reading my bible, followed by reading the newspaper.
3. Summer mornings spent in bed with coffee a an excellent book.
4. Summer nights with a fan stuck in the window.
5. Playing silly games and laughing my head off at some of my favorite kindergartners in the whole wide world.
6. FRESH raspberries eaten immediately after being picked off the bush.
7. Playing hard all day and sleeping hard all night only to be awakened by a beautiful new morning. :)
8. Shiny metals...:)
9. Discovering that there truly is a freedom in wearing no make up.
10. Going to teeny tiny little book stores and picking a pile of books and sitting on the floor for hours while skimming them and taking in that wonderful smell of old books.
11. Fresh flowers picked straight from the garden...fresh flowers in general.
12. Watermelon when it's super super hot outside.
13. Laying in the grass...the nice kind of grass, not the kind that makes you all itchy and pricks your legs when you try to lay down in it.
14. Bike rides through tall grass fields and forests.
15. Taking LOTS and LOTS and LOTS and LOTS of PICTURES!
16. Good movies that make me cry like a baby.
17. Random paintings found at antique stores or thrift stores that shouldn't be there in the first place because they have way too much personality to ever be surrendered.
18. Chocolate covered pretzels from Trader Joe's
19. Laughing so hard that tears are streaming down my eyes, my abs hurt, and I'm about ready to pee my pants.
20. Learning how to love...for real...it may hurt along the way a little, and it may not seem like you're learning love but rather bitterness or heartbreak, but in the very end it's completely and totally worth it. I promise. :)