1,000 Joys: Part 30.

1. Ballerina stickers
2. My green lampshades
3. Mixing chocolate pudding with Cool Whip
4. More Flower Fairies in my life
5. Devouring a good magazine in one sitting
6. Memories of fairy tales with Aunt Linda
7. Reading poems aloud in the bathtub
8. Good stepparents
9. Love letters and love E-mails
10. Soup To Go cups
11. Hugs from my brother
12. Instant forgiveness
13. Tree shadows
14. Love despite all that makes me unloveable
15. Pre-meal bread at restaurants
16. Metaphors that work decently well
17. An old notebook full of pictures and colorful scribbles
18. Josh's high school spiral notebooks, which I saved from the trash
19. Watching SNL with Bruce
20. Discovery of Bruce Hornsby after hearing "Mandolin Rain" in a coffee shop
21. Transplanting work from my journal to the blog
22. An unopened water bottle in my purse
23. Oliver's love of drinking water
24. PB&J--Josh makes it perfectly
25. The urge to climb trees