blessings

Love Thursday: I love my family

I was sad to read that this will be the last week that the Love Thursday site will be functioning. It’s been such a nice place to find happy and uplifting stories. I’m going to try to keep up with my lists, though, because I think it’s helped me to be more positive.

April 25

  • Poppy’s beautiful smile.
  • Pretending to be elephants, complete with the requisite “ba-roomph, ba-roomph” sounds when crawling around the house.
  • Dancing to the happy beach song on “Sesame Street.”
  • Putting a sock on Marsha’s head.
  • Bean nachoes!

    • April 26

  • Poppy’s wonderful hugs.
  • Rockford revealing that Garth Algar is his “dance inspiration.” It shows, honey.
  • Poppy clapping and saying “Yay Cubbies!”

    • April 27

  • The lady with the scary monkey and sunglasses-wearing dog at the antiques show.
  • Ben & Jerry’s Cinnamon Bun Ice Cream.
  • Taking an afternoon nap with Marsha curled up on my lap.
  • Watching “Extras” with Rockford.
  • Rockford trying to toss a Tums into my mouth, the Tums hitting my tooth with a big “clunk” and Rockford laughing so hard he tooted.

    • May 7

  • Poppy saying “peachy keen!” when I gave her a cup of peach yogurt.
  • Rockford seeing that I’d searched for “I can has a cheeseburger.” And then being entirely unamused by the site.
  • Thinking about the duck that flew down Dad’s chimney and got stuck behind the fireplace screen. (That happened years ago, but it still makes me laugh.)

    • May 8

  • Cheerwine float.
  • Poppy looking at Marsha and saying, “My precious! I see precious!”
  • A good storm.

    May 11

  • Rockford bringing home cupcakes.
  • Steak night!
  • Rockford putting on fresh black socks for bed.

    • May 12

  • Poppy putting on her most serious face to dance to “Old MacDonald.”
  • Meeting Don and Carrie for dinner. And the waiter bringing me a kids meal and then, after Rockford very carefully considered his bread choice, saying, “It’s like you’re choosing a wine.”
  • Poppy laying back on my arms to “relax” and saying “ahhhh” in the bathtub.

    • May 15

  • The “Gilmore Girls” series finale. I’m still so sad that it’s over, but the last episode was lovely.
  • Me: “What does a mommy say?”
    Poppy: “I love you!”
  • My little brother being so excited after his band concert.

    • May 22

  • Going to the park with Poppy.
  • Playing hats with Poppy.
  • Poppy resting in my lap before bed while we go over our whole day together.
  • The season finale of “Lost.” I can’t wait to see where they’re going with this!