"Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens" A few of your favorite things (to counter the Petty Grudge thread)

Waking up on a fine summer weekend morning to the sounds of DH and Sprout making breakfast in the kitchen. They are talking in low voices but every so often one or the other or both of them erupt with laughter, then Sprout or DH shushes the other so they don't wake me. But I can hear them, the pair of them, talking about everything and nothing, clinking my mother's pancake batter bowl and DH's grandmother's cast-iron pan. After breakfast they will plunk in the living room and I will clean up the mess, thanking my stars the entire time for it all: that they have such a great, easy relationship where they both really respect the other; that Sprout is growing into a respectful, outward-focused, gentle, fierce young man; and all the other ways I lucked out with this pair. You have to believe me when I say I clean that disastrous kitchen almost every Saturday morning with a heart full of gratitude.
 
The smell of salt air and the feeling of light sea spray on my skin
The smell of the original coppertone sun lotion
The smell of chlorine on my skin long after I've swum
Reading a good book outdoors far away from other humans
The sounds of ocean waves hitting the shore
and of course, my three most favorite things are my 3 kids (but, not gonna lie, sometimes they don't make the cut!)
 
Crushed ice 🧊
Crunchy mini cucumbers
Honey crisp apples
Subs from Publix or Wawa
Bob's Red Mill steel cut oats
Online craft classes
Zoom social visits
Chinese food on Christmas Day
Normal neighbors
My heating pad
A new box of crayons 🖍
 
Making vacation plans and gloating about using points/miles/deals - even rivals the vacation itself
Hearing my DDs doing well and knowing their problems are "good first world problems"
Days when I swim really fast
Eating a McDonald's #2 Sausage McMuffin meal and biting into a piping hot hash brown
Having a good answer to "What's for Dinner?"
Not my turn to answer "What's for Dinner?"
Clean, folded, and sorted laundry
No dirty laundry
Songs from the 1980's, including Dirty Laundry by Don Henley
 
I've been busy hanging out with my DS for a brief 6 day visit. I love coming back to this thread and reading your posts. It continues to make me grateful and appreciative.

Also, hugs from DS after 164 days. And he didn't pull away. And he volunteered more hugs all week. The best.
 
Capt MJ said:
hearing the slap of the rigging and the susurration of the water as we cut through the swells,
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“Susurration” is a great word! I have never heard it before and yet knew exactly what it meant after reading your wonderful sentence.

I guess I might as well say while I’m here that one of my favorite things is learning new things.
 
Physicsguru said:
Standing the ready one on deployment on Thanksgiving day. While being away from home sucked, no finer crew of miscreants have ever assembled (IMHO :cool:)
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I'll see your Sig deployment --launched a Ready One out of Kef at Zero Dark Thirty Christmas morning, and without disclosing mission details, was given the opportunity to let the bad guys know we were on to them. Best Christmas present ever ! (And I had a great crew of miscreants too !)

Back to regularly scheduled programming --

* I love it when my dog meets me at the foot of the stairs in the morning. No matter how the day is going to go..its starts out right.
* I love the feeling of trout striking a fly when standing in a mountain stream.
 
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