Between Kelly Diels‘s Operation Secret Valentine, Momalom‘s Love It Up Challenge, a post on How to Write a Love List at Em and Lo‘s and Big Little Wolf‘s suggestions for celebrating V Day on a budget, I am
again thinking about love and today about my life. So, here is my love list to my life.
- I love the mounds of laundry – both dirty and clean – as they mean we have clothing to wear.
- I love my kitchen sink full of dishes I should wash as it means we have had food to eat.
- I love the snow outside as it makes the sunlight look twice as bright.
- I love running in the cold as it makes me feel alive – actually, any running makes me feel alive.
- I love that #5 took classwork with him to the conference championships. He is finally becoming a student.
- I love that #6 is taking the reigns in what he thinks he wants to do later in life.
- I love a particular good friend as I know life is not easy but this friend is making the best of it.
- I love that #3 has a great feeling about her Teach for America interview that was on Monday.
- I love that #1′s car only needs a new water pump as it could be much worse.
- I love that I got to see #2 yesterday, even if just briefly.
- I love that #4 is all set to move after she graduates this spring and is continuing her education.
- I love my family – regardless of how much I complain about them.
- I love God – as He has made this life so possible.
- I love my life. The ups and downs are annoying but without the valleys, the heights would not seem high.
February 12th, 2010 at 8:49 am
I love your attitude Nicki – I can tell you’re a glass is full kind of gal, and it makes me smile. I’m hoping some of your attitude is contagious…
February 13th, 2010 at 7:59 am
I will send you some brownies made with glass full stuff, Corinne. Except, the only brownies around here lately have been made by #6.
February 12th, 2010 at 8:58 am
What a wonderful list! And, as Corinne says, a positive attitude! I think sitting down and reflecting on the things we love in our lives, little and big, is a really productive exercise.
Thank you for sharing yours.
February 13th, 2010 at 8:00 am
Thanks, Lindsey! I love my life. It’s not perfect but it is mine.
February 12th, 2010 at 8:58 am
You love laundry? Cool! Come do mine!
I’m with Corinne, you are a glass if full kind of person. I need those people in my life.
February 13th, 2010 at 8:00 am
LOL, TKW! Not sure I love laundry that much – as evidenced by the last load I did still being in the dryer and that wasn’t yesterday…
February 12th, 2010 at 9:11 am
I love the positive outlook. I’m thinking I need to make a list like this to remind me of all that I have to be grateful for!
February 13th, 2010 at 8:01 am
Believe it or not, I have a gratitude journal, Charlotte. It came from reading – several times – a book with daily entries call “Simple Abundance.” I write down five things at the end of each day that I am grateful for.
February 12th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
And I love that you reminded me–all of us–how good we have it.
February 13th, 2010 at 8:01 am
Thanks, Amber! We may not realize as we go through each day just how good we have it.
February 12th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
I love your list!
February 13th, 2010 at 8:02 am
Thanks, BLW!
February 12th, 2010 at 8:54 pm
I’m just going to echo BigLittleWolf….I LOVE your list! What a beautiful, glass half full way to look at things! My kind of gal!
February 13th, 2010 at 8:02 am
Thanks, Jane.
February 12th, 2010 at 11:28 pm
Nicki, awesome and also reads as a gratitude list, something I have some experience with. When we look for trouble we find trouble, when we look for blessings, we find blessings.
February 13th, 2010 at 8:03 am
Linda – you are so right. How we frame our days helps them go one way or the other.
February 13th, 2010 at 3:08 pm
Thanks for this inspiration to stop and reflect on the real meaning of the people and objects around us. Happy Valentine’s Day to you!
February 13th, 2010 at 7:55 pm
Kristen – Thanks for coming by. Love your new “digs!” Happy Valentine’s Day to you, also!
February 14th, 2010 at 8:34 am
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February 14th, 2010 at 1:39 pm
This is an awesome list! Counting those blessings helps us see all the love that is around us every day, not just on Valentine’s!
Thanks!
February 15th, 2010 at 9:56 am
Thanks so much for coming by and reading. I worry that culture makes so much out of love – the ideally romantic type that Valentine’s Day is “suppose” to be about – that we forget the simple things that we should love.
February 15th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
What a lovely list. I particularly love the last item. Life. Yes, it has its ups and downs, its peaks and valleys, its landscapes of gray, but that’s what makes it life and so wonderful.
Happy belated Valentine’s!
February 15th, 2010 at 4:06 pm
Thanks, Aidan. I hope you and yours had a wonderful Valentine’s day.
February 15th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
This is a great list Nicki!
February 15th, 2010 at 7:26 pm
Thanks, Matt!
February 20th, 2010 at 4:36 pm
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