1,000 Joys: Part 26.

1. Writing by candlelight
2. Lollia hand cream
3. GPS
4. Wearing pink
5. Wearing green
6. The word abundant
7. Walking through Anthropologie, imagining myself anew
8. Edwin McCain in concert
9. Kind doctor's office staff
10. Stickers for sale by the roll
11. Cinnamon mints
12. Being done with an appointment
13. Seeing Josh happy or content
14. Cinnamon toast when I'm sick
15. Blackberry ginger ale
16. Finding something Oliver will actually eat
17. Oliver's singing and muttering to his food
18. Curly hair
19. The Good Doctor TV show
20. Learning more about bipolar disorder
21. Looking forward to a musical
22. Brightly colored theatre tickets
23. Powdered wedding cookies
24. Free beauty samples
25. Beauty advent calendars! How can that be real??

1,000 Joys: Part 25.

1. Memories of flannel-lined jeans
2. Oliver's willingness and ability to take his medication
3. Memory of a locket with a mirror inside
4. Flowers pressed in books
5. Pencils with jewels instead of erasers
6. Carrot cake without raisins
7. Looking at Origami Owl catalogs
8. Levenger's range of ink colors
9. My sheer polka-dot curtains
10. Notebooks with spirals on the top
11. Listening to Elton John while driving at night
12. Having a whole box of a pen I love
13. A sudden story idea
14. Antique books with inscriptions
15. The charm necklace Mom made for me
16. Eating chocolate in the morning
17. Huge water bottles
18. Recognizing loved ones' handwriting
19. Memories of reading and writing in the school library during lunch
20. My mimi's black and gold purse
21. Releasing a poem
22. Two blue beads I always see on the sidewalk when I have my morning walk
23. Francesca's wooden quotation art
24. Publisher responses, even if they are rejections
25. Walking to get the mail

1,000 Joys: Part 24.

1. Remembering, recognizing, and discovering more joys
2. Love stamps
3. The carrot cake Mom made for my birthday
4. Druella, one of the best people I know
5. Magic Kingdom mosaics
6. Cherry Coke
7. Mini soda cans
8. Natalie Goldberg's books on writing
9. Brietta's telling me I look happy
10. Medication that gives me a chance of stability
11. Mascara that stays put
12. A 64 box of colored pencils
13. The huge Adventure Awaits canvas in Oliver's room
14. Seeing Peter Pan with Uncle Chris
15. Teal clothes hangers
16. Pretty labels on shoeboxes
17. Needle-point pens
18. Le Pens
19. Subscription boxes
20. Being brave enough to answer the door
21. Making a good new habit
22. Bates Motel, which I binged watched alone
23. Josh's vests
24. A Snow White nightgown
25. Hearing my name

1,000 Joys: Part 23.

1. Quarters
2. Gifts of bubble bath
3. Gifts of journals
4. Gifts of pens
5. Fleece
6. Unintentional but appropriate naps
7. Cracking walnuts
8. Walnuts in oatmeal
9. Forever stamps
10. A fairy dust bottle necklace from my dad
11. Knowing the truth
12. Soft bath robes
13. Language-learning tapes playing in restaurant bathrooms
14. Stretch bracelets
15. Just-brushed hair
16. The scent of hot tea
17. An old issue of YM Beauty
18. Bruce's willingness to watch any movie
19. The last unbroken dark blue glass
20. Fairy wings
21. Oliver's watercolor paintings
22. Oliver's working on a puzzle
23. Tuesday mornings with Josh
24. Oliver's plush meerkat
25. Cinnamon rolls

1,000 Joys: Part 22.

1. Starting a new list
2. Sharing books with a friend
3. Dark purple clematis
4. Yellow jasmine
5. Chandelier earrings
6. The chandelier in Phantom
7. Live-action Cinderella
8. Live-action Beauty and the Beast
9. Sealing wax
10. Painted nails
11. A gunmetal-sparkle wristlet
12. Plumeria body cream
13. Pink and white roses
14. Freshly dyed and trimmed long, black hair
15. A scarf in shades of green
16. Sleeping until 8!
17. Going to bed early
18. Audrey Hepburn
19. Key charms
20. Warm Vanilla Sugar bubble bath
21. Candles for Christmas
22. Josh's cleaning my shoe
23. Sunshine spreading on the carpet
24. Oliver's eating grapes
25. Switching up my rings

1,000 Joys: Part 21.

1. A beautiful pop-up snowflake Melissa made for me
2. Miniature mason jars
3. Glitter, beads, and water in a blue mason jar
4. My never having had a bad car accident
5. Many years of being comfortable with my body
6. Memories of lunch in Cinderella's castle
7. Artists who renew Disney princesses
8. Compedium inspirational books
9. Disney Golden Books
10. A battery-operated lantern
11. Tiny books
12. Big, firm pillows
13. Kissing
14. Glitter pens
15. Scented markers
16. Round soup spoons
17. Oliver's wearing light-up shoes
18. Josh's curls
19. Jonathan Bird's Blue World diving show
20. Key and Peele
21. Zipper teeth
22. Proverbs, my favorite book of the Bible
23. Snoopy Band-Aids
24. Fairy roses
25. Fuchsia

1,000 Joys: Part 20.

1. My tiny blue iPod from Dad
2. Feeling walks getting easier
3. My princess-y bed
4. Birthday-themed stickers (cakes and presents!)
5. Decorative faux-book boxes
6. Journal pages my aunt Brietta illustrated
7. Pink-lit jellyfish
8. Pinning reminders of hope over my bed
9. The slice of time after the day ends and before sleep
10. Finding a forest green tank top I'd forgotten
11. Yoga pants from NY&Co
12. Picnics at the Biltmore
13. Seeing Oliver eat well
14. Oliver's "Shark Water" Camelbak bottles
15. My lavender velvet pillow with icicle beading from Mom
16. Book lights
17. Tin foil ornaments
18. Pink ink
19. Writing at least two pages in my journal each day
20. Plumeria body cream
21. Tiny colored pencils
22. Lilac roller ball perfume
23. Empty laundry baskets
24. Botanical gardens
25. Prisms