Simple Things

Well, I'm barely making it in on time, but I went to read a post on a blog that I follow Two Shades of Pink and discovered a link-up for Haiti. It comes from a blog Enchanted Oak who is donating $2 to Heartline Ministries for every blogger or commenter who posts a list, poem, or prose piece about the joys of the simple things in life. It goes to aid Heartline's medical clinic and other programs in Haiti.
As a new blogger, I've never done this before so I hope I get it right! :) If nothing else, go visit these blogs and relish their lists...


Since I'm a scrapbooker, I'll start with a layout I made about simple things that make me happy...

Here's a close up of the list in the upper right corner:

In case you can't read it (and they aren't in priority order):

1. spending time with my handsome hubby

2. dinner @ Red Robin

3. Stamping

4. Snuggles

5. laughing with my best friend

6. My sanctuary - Milford Mill Park

7. Playing Beethoven's 9th Symphony

8. gardening

9. Sunday evenings with my family

Other simple things I'm appreciating right now:

* electricity - I was so afraid it would go out in this mammoth storm. I'm grateful to be warm...

* my first son's adorable nose wrinkle when he smiles...and that he gets it from his Daddy

* my tiny second son's antics inside my tummy every day

* friends I can absolutely count on no matter what

* flannel sheets and a down comforter

* medicine for heartburn

* a safe and beautiful neighborhood to walk in

* toddler speak: "zoo-ic" = music

* looking out my back window at the sculptural branches of my favorite oak tree in every season

There are so many more...what are your simple things?