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100 Things I Love

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I stumbled found a blog article about 100 things I love the day before Thanksgiving.

It inspired me to create my own 100 Things I Love list in my phone, adding items as I thought of them.

It’s been a lot of fun to thinking about things that tickle my fancy, and it made me think that maybe we all should have a list of 100 things we love on our phones.

100 Things I Love

  • Going to the city with Mike and the girls the week of Thanksgiving
  • Sunny days
  • The first snowfall
  • A house full of people
  • Routine
  • Laying on the couch watching movies
  • Foot rubs
  • The aroma of a spice shop
  • Chocolate chip pancakes and bacon
  • Coffee
  • Our dog Buddy snuggling in between my legs

  • Holding my daughters’ hands
  • Mike’s laugh
  • Pandora’s Sunday Brunch playlist
  • Rum and coke
  • Cold pizza
  • Back scratches
  • The first 15 minutes of a professional massage
  • The first night of daylight savings time in March, when there is light until after 7 p.m.
  • How the house smells after leaving the windows open all day
  • Homemade pasta Alfredo
  • Steak on the grill
  • Singing loudly in the car with Anna
  • California sunshine
  • Destin, Florida
  • Waffle House
  • The lights of the Christmas tree

  • All I Want for Christmas is You by Mariah Carey
  • The aroma of coffee brewing
  • When we walk inside my parent’s house and smell Thanksgiving dinner cooking
  • Leftover turkey sandwiches the day after Thanksgiving
  • Warm cookies out of the oven
  • Trader Joe’s freezer section
  • Shopping on Christmas Eve morning for “last minutes”
  • The scent of our church after the candles have been blown out
  • The memories of the first Christmas that Mike and I shared
  • The scent of cedar outside after it has rained
  • When Rebecca and I burst out laughing and can’t stop
  • State Street in Chicago
  • Lou Malnati’s Deep Dish Sausage Pizza
  • Eating at Pizano’s pizza on Madison Street

  • Dipping spaghetti with marinara into ranch dressing
  • The sound of the ocean
  • The smell of earth after a long winter
  • The first buds on a tree

  • Birds singing
  • World Market
  • The smell of suntan lotion
  • That we have a goldfish older than Ella
  • The television show My Grandmother’s Ravioli
  • When Anna applies my makeup
  • Dolly Parton
  • Hulu
  • Date nights that include Target and Starbucks
  • Whiskey
  • Fresh salsa and chips
  • Heartwarming television commercials
  • My teenager allowing Mike and me to hang out with her and her friends
  • Lying in Ella’s bed with her on a sunny winter day, listening to music
  • When Ella puts lotion on my legs and feet
  • Red church doors

  • Lunches alone with my mom
  • My dad’s jokes
  • Mike’s chocolate chip cookies
  • The refrigerator after going to the grocery store
  • Homemade bread
  • Wendy’s chili
  • Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
  • Easter lilies
  • Door County, Wisconsin
  • Impromptu dinner parties
  • Target’s Dollar Spot
  • Friends who’ve become family

  • Horses hooves on pavement
  • Clean sheets
  • Marching bands in parades
  • Our church on Christmas Eve
  • Bonfires

  • The first full day of summer
  • The sound of tree frogs
  • The sound of a train horn in the distance
  • The smell of fresh tar
  • My grandma’s beef and noodles
  • A higher power
  • Children singing spontaneously
  • Buddy’s excitement when we come in the door
  • Nibbles sleeping curled in a ball
  • Eating outside at a restaurant

  • Pedicures
  • A package on the front porch
  • John Hughes movie marathons
  • Burnt marshmallows
  • The smell of flowers, especially hyacinth and lilac
  • People who kiss you on the cheek when they hug you (my dad is one)
  • Big Mac’s
  • My mom’s tuna salad
  • The poem Footprints
  • Creaky wood floor
  • Essential oils (especially peppermint)
  • Being a mommy

I could go on and on. I think I will.

28 thoughts on “100 Things I Love”

  2. I’m gonna! I’m gonna! Count me in on this fabulous idea. And then you can just look at the list from time to time and feel amazing. ❤

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  7. Here are some things that I love about this post: so many of things you love are smells, and every time you mentioned one, I could instantly connect with it. You love things that are super small and things that are larger than life. So much of your love revolves around the simple things that your family members do, and mostly they are things that they do without trying.

    I love that you took the time to do this. If it feels this good to revel in the things that you love, as a reader, it must be that much more amazing to reflect on this list as the one who wrote it!

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      1. OK so two years later Ani is not as eloquent as two years ago Ani 😂 That mozzarella stick though, surprised I didn’t comment on the luxuriousness of it already.

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      2. OK so two years later Ani is not as eloquent as two years ago Ani 😂 That mozzarella stick though, I’m surprised I didn’t comment on the luxuriousness of it already.

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