Love and Adoration

It has been a long time since I have done a post of the things that I love and adore. Tastes change over time and so do the things that catch my fancy, so let's enumerate them now:

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I love that my husband wasn't found dead on the roadside last night. Sounds weird I know, but he had been travelling on icy roads at midnight; I was sitting home worrying and the reassuring text he sent me to tell me he made it back to New Florin alive and well got jammed up in his phone and wasn't delivered to me. Needless to say I was a wreck when I woke up this morning (pun intended). (Sometimes he sends the texts late, after I go to sleep.) My frantic-ness was only enhanced when he slept in and didn't hear my repeated phone calls - I dialed somewhere in the area of 10,000. I had given myself the deadline of 8:30 am before I called the police. At 8:00 I got his sweet text, "Good morning."


Ahhh.... music to my ears (or eyes as the case may be).

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I Love Great Harvest's Potato Dill Bread. I bought it on an impulse one day and haven't looked back. I usually eat toast or an English muffin for breakfast each day and this bread makes the yummiest toast you'll probably ever eat.


Seriously. Try it.
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I Love that the two feet of snow I had in my back yard melted in the space of about a week and 1/2. I Love that I can see my grass again. Sure it's brown and matted down and covered in a winter's worth of Lola Dog's lawn bombs, but it's GRASS!!! And there's something else that's cool popping up in my yard... the very tips of my tulips are poking through the wet dirt!! Glory Hallelujah! Spring really might come.

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I Love that I get to see my sister Wees and her family at my sister Red's house in a month's time when we all converge for my niece SaJo's graduation from the Blue University. You know... that school that coined a new VERB: Jimmer. I Love that we will also get to go through the Temple with my nephew JackO as he prepares to serve in the Salt Lake City Spanish Speaking Mission!! Time with family Rocks!!!

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I Love that when my young adult daughter comes home from school/work, she'll sit down and have a conversation with me. It's been a long time in coming, and now that she's opening up, it's FANTASTIC!!!

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I Love that my 8 year old son practically sits curled up on my lap every night as we read the Fablehaven books together. It's so wonderful that he still is so openly affectionate towards me. I cherish the evenings we have together, knowing they won't last forever.

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I Love Paint the Moon action sets for my Photoshop Elements. They have helped me so much as I edit my photos. These action sets take a mediocre photo and make them look a step up from mediocre. Thank heavens or my friend Leo would have had to get married all over again (and hire a real photographer this time!!)




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I Love that we were able to get tickets for General Conference this year. Can you believe we have never gone? When the bishop stood up at the pulpit and said he had a few tickets, I whispered to Max that we ought to see if we could get some. It would be fun to go while we still live only a few hours away. (Next Conference we'll live SEVERAL hours away!) When we asked if we could have some, we found out that the Bishop was only given 3 tickets and he only had two left. Well, we need 3. The reason we hadn't requested tickets before was that Inigo wasn't old enough to go. Now that he's'of legal age'(8 years old), we want him to go.


Since there weren't enough, we shrugged our shoulders and said that we'd try another time. No big deal.


A week passes and the Bishop approaches Max in Priesthood Mtg and gives him an envelope with 3 tickets!! Apparently he went to the Stake President and asked for more! Woo hoo! Thanks Bishop Love!
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And mostly, I Love that I can go to bed tonight. After a short night last night, worrying about Max's mortality, I'm finding that I'm getting increasingly short tempered and grumpy as the day goes on. Inigo has a friend over and I can't tell you how many times the little boy has rang the doorbell to come in and ask me a question.

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ENOUGH WITH THE DOORBELL!!!