Hello all!  Today I am doing something a bit different.  I was tagged by Elizabeth at Lize in Disneyland to write a list of 50 things that make me happy, and then to tag five other blogging buddies.  Of course, I never do things quite like everybody else..so I will be tagging nine instead of five.

When I first heard about this challenge, I thought it would be easy.  There are so many things that make me happy on a daily basis.  As I started to make my list, I realized this was not going to be as easy as I thought.  After I finished my list, I kept thinking of more and more that I could have included.  My hope is that as you read my list, you will also start to think about the little things that bring happiness into your lives.  We don’t have to have a lot of money or material things to be happy, as you can see from my list. 🙂

50 Things That Make Me Happy

1. My Family
2. Everything about Christmas
3. My warm bed
4. Fuzzy socks on cold nights
5. Kids
6. Friends
7. My eyeglasses (for obvious reasons) 🙂
8. Diet Dr. Pepper
9. Camping
10. Bonfires
11. My pets
12. Getting all of my work progress notes caught up
13. Music of all types
14. Growing things (veggies, flowers)
15. Football games
16. Music theater with my sister
17. Road Trips
18. Waterfalls
19. Memories
20. Brilliant colored fall trees
21. Hot cocoa with marshmallows
22. Cozumel waters
23. First snowfall of the season (as long as I don’t have to get out in it)
24. My cell phone
25. Thanksgiving dinner
26. My blog
27. When my kids tell me they love me
28. 80’s music
29. Visiting my old hometown (shout out to Great Bend, Kansas) 🙂
30. Looking at pictures of loved ones that have passed
31. New grandbabies
32. Helping others
33. Guided meditations
34. Foot rubs
35. Respect
36. Ice Cream
37. Driving around to look at Christmas lights (with a cappuccino in hand)
38. Finding money in the dryer
39. Good food
40. Shoulder rubs
41. Seeing good things happen to other people
42. Peace
43. Validation of my work on the blog
44. Vacation days from work
45. Blankets straight from the dryer
46. Wood wick candles
47. Homemade gifts
48. Seeing my kids happy
49. Payday
50. New beginnings

I would now like to tag the following blogging buddies and challenge you to write a list of 50 things that make YOU happy:

Rebecca at The Coastal Mummy

Kirsty at Kirsty Through The Looking Glass

Rachel at Rachel Downing

Donna at Life as Mrs. Jones

Eleanor at Eleanor May

Anindya at My Daily Journal

Ida at I’m Miss Mountain

Angela at Angela McLean

Amy at Miss Amy Rach