love list.

i'm all about making lists these days.

it tends to come with the new year.

it usually fizzles after a few short months.

i do enjoy a good list though

and as i was driving

yesterday

two days ago

i started thinking about how much

we each change

from year to year

and how much we stay the same

and all kinds of other random

blah

and as i was driving

i came up with my 'love list'.

it looks like this:

• i love yoga.
• i love oatmeal.
• i very much love oatmeal with peanut butter.
• i also very much love oatmeal with raspberries.
• i love hearing 'mama' any time of day...yep, even 3 a.m.
• i love running (who knew?)
• i very much love my husband.
• i love sitting at barnes and noble and making life plans with him.
• i love sleep (and miss it).
• i love chai at 10 p.m.
• i love 'the office'.
• i love netflix.
• i [still] love 'seinfeld' at 11 p.m.
• i love listening to dave.
• i love that i found the potential in dave to pound out on my feet.
• i love quiet.
• i love yarn.
• i love that i can start with a ball of string and create something.
• i love watching my best good girl light up.
• i love watching her run up and hug her daddy.
• i love laying in her tent and looking up at the ceiling and pretending there are stars up there.
• i love flip-flops and miss them very very much.
• i love the tropics (and miss those very very much too).
• i love routine.
• i love consistency.
• i love that i get to be an aunt.
• i love books.
• i love them best when they are thick and laden with words.
• i love not having cable.
• i love NPR (this is what spurred this on...i was listening to it when i thought to myself, 'i love NPR', and then began to process all the little idiosyncrasies that i love and that make me me).
• i love iowa public television.
• i love 'sesame street'.
• i love chocolate granola (even if it doesn't love my thighs...)
• i love office supplies (notebooks, different colored pens, post-its...you name it)
• i love yarn bags.
• i love writing.
• i love date night.
• i love summer and fall (but not so much winter and spring).
• i love twinkling lights.
• i love getting my hair cut.
• i love the white dress i wore in hawaii.
• i love my dogs.
• i love my man.
• i love my girl.

and on dreary days such as these

i have to remember to stash this in my back pocket

so that i can drown out

all of those things i don't love.

what's on your love list?

go well.