Happy

The theme for this post is from the Blog Every Day in May challenge.  I am getting an awfully late start and won't be writing everyday, but the prompts are interesting and it will be nice to try something new around here.

10 Things That Make Me Happy

(in no particular order)

Delicious new recipes

recipe

Holiday lights all year round

(strings of lights, not the whole slew of decorations; those start way too early as it is!)

Letters in the mail

People riding bikes around to look at backyard chickens

Tour de Coop 2014

Gin tonics

(or margaritas, or mojitos, or sangria...)

Talking & laughing with this guy

(which happens almost daily even though we are usually 7,000+ miles apart)

Sunshine, lots and lots of sunshine

Valencia Spain, 2010

Reading

Thinking about, making and especially eating dessert

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cream Pie

Seeing things checked off on a to-do list 

(which is why mine always include things like "get dressed" and "eat lunch")