Dancing in the Rain

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain."

~ Unknown

I have to admit I spent the weekend feeling a tad sorry for myself. You see I was (and remain) sick. On top of that I had to work, fourteen hours on Saturday and a mere eight hours on Sunday...

{At this point in the conversation Mr. Peculiar would interrupt and begin rubbing his thumb and index finger together. That would be him playing a tiny violin; i.e. no sympathy. I can't complain. It goes both ways. I don't coddle him when he is sick either. We are all about bucking up and pushing through. Which is all well and good until you are in the middle of it and then it's not so fun.}

Anyway, on the lines of bucking up, I decided to cheer myself by compiling a list of some of my favorite things (Julie Andrews style):

• Hot air balloons floating over my house early in the morning.
• Quail and their funny little attention meters on the tops of their heads.
• Trees that flower in the spring and bear fruit in the summer.
• Bok Bok Chicken Chickens and the resultant fresh eggs.
• Long hot luxurious showers.
• Flannel sheets, down comforters and duvets.
• Pedicures, foot rubs and pretty toes.
• Naps.
• Eggs benedict with sauteed fennel, canadian bacon and arugula.
• Simple homegrown flowers.

and finally,

• Sunshine, sunshine, sunshine!

And now I must go pack some sandwiches. We are having a picnic dinner at the boy's lacrosse game. I will be bringing some of my other favorite things ... this blanket and basket.

I hope today finds you well. Well or not what are you loving today?