Happy Award

My friend Nagehan gave me a Happy Award!  And this after I recently had two entries about how I'm not your Susie Sunshine type of gal . . . glad to know I can still make someone happy!

The rule after receiving this award is to list 10 things that make you happy and pass the award to 10 other people. I'm not sure if I will end up giving it to 10 people. I read blogs that make me really happy, but I've already given them all awards so I might follow Nagehan's lead and just pick one good one.

10 things that make me happy: 

1) Reading a real page-turner of a novel, biography, or non-fiction book.  I simply adore finding a book that I never want to put down (it happens fairly rarely).

2) When the hubby feels the baby kick.  It's like a little moment when we're the family we're about to fully become in May.

3) Trying a new recipe and having it turn out deliciously.

4) Going to school and actually having all of my reading and homework done.  It hasn't happened yet this semester, but I have hopes.

5) Buying a toy for Buster that lasts more than half a day before it loses all of its innards.  (His two newest toys are made out of firehose and tire rubber, respectively. I have high hopes for these toys.)

6) Looking at my wedding photos.

7) Curling up in bed at night.

8) Seeing The Force on a sonogram and being told he's doing well.

9) Finding a shirt or other item of clothing that makes me excited to look at it, excited to wear it, and feel good about how I look when it's on.

10) Receiving long emails from good friends.

I'm passing this award on to my friend Kyra at Crouching Girl, Hidden Woman.  We grew up together, walking to school together nearly every day for years in elementary and middle school, singing Madonna and Cyndi Lauper songs in our fluorescent leg warmers and stylishly mis-matched earrings.  Now she's a happy designer living in North Carolina, just a week or so away from becoming a mom!  I love hearing her thoughts on life and her pregnancy and I'm looking forward to hearing about the birth and parenthood process.

Comments

[Nagehan Bayindir]

I teared up a little when I read number 2. :)

[Liza]

Just found your blog for the first time and I love your list. Number 1 speaks to me! I'm actually reading "Wuthering Heights" and, I know it's a heartbreaking classic, but I just can't get into it! "Jane Eyre," now that rocked me. Why are amazing books so rare! Oh, and I agree with you on #2. We're due June 1st with our first. It seems like she kicks all the time and then just stops when my husband comes over to feel or when he looks over to try to see my belly moving! Well, congrats on the upcoming bundle of joy! I'll be sure to keep checking your blog!

[Candice]

@Nagehan - #2 is by far my favorite thing about this pregnancy so far next to finding out the sex of the baby. Nothing makes me love the process more than when the hubby can feel the baby.

@Liza - Thanks for stopping by! I hate to admit (with an English BA and MA) that I've never read Wuthering Heights! One of these days... but I looooooove Jane Eyre.

Our baby also seems to stop kicking as soon as the hubby tries to feel something... and as soon as he takes his hand away, the baby does a triple axle, double kick, left jab combo and he misses it. LOL