14,000 things to be happy about

So I one time owned a book titled 14,000 things to be happy about and I really enjoyed picking it up from time to time to alleviate the blues or stress or whatever there was in my life that day. Well, I lost this book. Solution? I will now keep a daily list of simple life things that make me happy. In doing so I believe I will find the good news on daily life and leave behind the bad… so here we go… The easiest & most obvious ones first:

1. Kamron


2. Dayton


3. Oaklee


4. Kyndi


5. Tate


6. Morrissa


7. Tyson


8. The fact that I am only 2 kids away from my goal of 8 (but then Kamron points out that 9 would be good for our own baseball team) …


9. My brothers and sisters


10. A van that holds *most* of my kids


11. Camera phones so I can take a picture of the crickets in my house and text them to my sister so she can share in my fear of them.


12. Little girls who love to eat lotion
    Tiny toothbrushes


13. Rainy days


14. The smell of rain


15. Having my Christmas shopping done by the first week of October


16. Proper grammar


17. Employment


18. As an adult I can choose white bread over wheat bread at the store


19. A lot of people think I am only 20 years old


20. The looks on people’s faces when they learn I have 6 kids


21. My cousin Jake who calls to check on me from time to time


22. BYU football


23. Freshly painted walls


24. 70 degree weather


25. Music


26. The fact that one day I convinced my younger brother to swallow a coin (dime, nickel, quarter?) to see if M&Ms would come out


27. Gophers


28. Duct tape


29. Little kids pushing all the ‘try me’ buttons at the store


30. Flip flops


31. Funeral potatoes


32. I still have my tonsils and my appendix oh and my wisdom teeth


33. Snowcones


34. Disneyland


35. Morrissa singing full blast with her headphones on


36. Rainbow Brite


37. Parakeets in freezers


38. Penguins


39. Daisies


40. The letter K and the letter Y


41. The song “Its All Coming Back to Me Now” by Celine Dion


42. I can’t swim


43. The funky spelling of my middle name (An)


44. Troll dolls


45. Lite Brites


46. Cool Whip


47. Family Photos


48. Babies that snore


49. Nicknames


50. Bald babies


51. A&W Rootbeer


52. Wikipedia


53. The comical words of 3 year olds


54. fingerprints (and whole handprints) on the sliding glass door


55. 1st grade crushes


56. Kids eating sour candy


57. baby wipes


58. white picket fences


59. ghost shaped placemats


60. temporary tattoos


61. lilacs


62. magnadoodles


63. digital cameras


64. plumbers


65. no need to write up a shopping list, I have Kyndi!