100 Things I Love

Just when you thought all I ever write is boring weekly reviews, I am finally finding some time to write something different! I was flipping through a notebook lately and found a list of 100 things that I love.

I'm pretty sure I made this list intending to create a scrapbook page, and never got around to doing it. Maybe someday I will actually get back to scrapbooking...but I doubt it, because blogging is so much easier! (Yes, I love the crafty creative part of scrapbooking but I just don't have the time to do that often and the photos themselves--and the stories behind them--are more important to me than creating a masterpiece.

Anyway, I digress. I decided it would be a shame to let this list go to waste just because I never have time to scrapbook, so I am going to blog it instead. I think I originally intended the list to be much shorter--say, 20 things or 50 things--but as I think I've mentioned before, I have a problem with favorites. I don't have a favorite anything because I can't narrow it down that much. I love too many things to keep it down to a list of just 20! So here you go...100 Things I Love (in no particular order). I'm sure I forgot a few hundred!

1. historical fiction
2. dark chocolate
3. strawberries
4. cashews
5. mushrooms
6. chewy candy (Starburst, Skittles, Hot Tamales, and esp. Jelly Beans!)
7. seeing new places
8. Iris flowers (all colors)
9. pansies
10. maps
11. autumn
12. fireworks
13. Haagan Daz ice cream bars (chocolate w / dark chocolate coating is the best!)
14. summer fruit (watermelon, cantalope, plums, apricots, cherries...)
15. eggs (esp. scrambled...or in an omelette)
16. breakfast food for dinner
17. BLT sandwiches (esp. w / fresh tomatoes)
18. bookkeeping
19. records--esp. family history records
20. lists (and particularly checking things off lists!)
21. encyclopedias
22. historical sites
23. learning history
24. Mexican food
25. Chinese food
26. romantic comedies
27. black licorice
28. puzzles--logic, syllacrostic, anagram squares, alphabet soup...
29. looking at family photos
30. learning about different cultures / regions of the USA
31. new school supplies
32. singing in choirs; trying different parts
33. listening to music
34. General Conference
35. The Book of Mormon
36. going to the temple
37. the scent of Simply Basic bath products (cinnamon / vanilla)
38. my family
39. being a mom
40. snuggling w/ Frank
41. girls' nights out
42. private jokes
43. eyelet
44. children's books
45. holding tiny, sleeping babies
46. Inside Out A'Cappella
47. new clothes
48. "glowing" feeling after exercising
49. fireflies / lightning bugs
50. organizing
51. rainbows
52. waterfalls
53. clean, uncluttered spaces
54. summer storms
55. Subway seafood & crab sandwich
56. warm bread (esp. with butter & strawberry freezer jam)
57. candlelight
58. Christmas music
59. basking in the lights from the Christmas tree
60. quilting
61. embroidery
62. cross stitch
63. sewing
64. musicals
65. hot chocolate w/ marshmallows
66. vanilla ice cream
67. sugar cookies, especially with frosting
68. the noise cicadas make on hot summer days
69. hot showers
70. blueberry cheesecake w/ shortbread crust
71. ice cold drinks
72. Hershey's with almonds
73. finding a great deal
74. people telling me I'm "tiny"
75. old movies
76. seashells
77. blue / white/ yellow colors
78. foil-wrapped packages
79. anything shiny!
80. seeing my boys growing up
81. hymns
82. Primary songs
83. lace
84. satin ribbon
85. grosgain ribbon
86. dollhouses & all things miniature
87. postcards
88. unique salt & pepper shakers
89. receiving flowers
90. Frank's thoughtfulness
91. learning something new
92. museums
93. childhood memories
94. board games
95. reading to my kids
96. baby clothes
97. personal revelation
98. newly fallen snow
99. border prints
100. fireplaces

I would add some nice pictures to jazz up this post except for the last several months I haven't been able to get blogger to add photos anywhere except the beginning of a post, which wouldn't be the same. (Oh, but that should go on my list of "Things I Hate". Yes, I have one of those too. It's a lot shorter than the "Things I Love" list, thankfully. But that's for another post!)
So what are some things you love? I'd really like to know!
Well, I finally wrote a post that wasn't a weekly review--check that off my list--CHECK! Now I am going to go eat some dark chocolate while poring over an encyclopedia...