Raindrops on roses, and whiskers on kittens…

Things I love and things I hate…

{I like to make these lists every few years or so – they’re fun to look back on later. I made a scrapbook page like this around ten years ago and a lot of things have changed since then! After you read mine, go make your own list on your blog – because you’ll have fun with it too.}

Things I’m loving right now…

1. my marriage. It just keeps getting better and better! Andrew rocks my socks.
2. my toddlers. Jacob & Paige are way too adorable. Lots of squeezes and kisses happen daily!
3. my tweens. Jarvis & Darby are in a fun stage – and are both still such learning sponges! (and cute too)
4. my teens. I feel so blessed to have Britta & Justice. I hear so many people complaining about how their teens hate them (and it sounds like they hate their teens), but I am grateful to have really great relationships with my teenagers!! (and they’re funny – and I do love to laugh)
5. Target.
6. organic Kettle barbecue potato chips.
7. Trader Joe’s brand everything.
8. our church. So happy to have found one we love! We were beginning to wonder if we ever would.
9. netflix.
10. tazo green tea.
11. white chocolate peanut butter by the peanut butter co. By the spoonful.
12. Qdoba naked burritos.
13. my iPhone.
14. reading through the New Testament (again)… so much good stuff and I see new totally awesome things every time. I love it.
15. having our own house that doesn’t have plain white walls.
16. dairy-free, soy-free, corn syrup-free, chocolate, coconut ‘ice-cream’. In small doses.
17. black and white accented with an awesome color like teal or dark yellow.
18. yoga on the Wii.
19. getting mail. Snail or e.
20. shopping. Though I don’t get to do it enough. And I don’t mean for groceries. Grocery shopping is definitely not on this list.
21. lazy summer days. Even though there doesn’t seem to be very many of them.
22. photoshop cs4.
23. music – she & him, sanctus real, needtobreathe, david crowder band…
24. movie quotes.
25. hearing songs I used to love on the car radio, and turning it up and singing loudly and dancing (much to the chagrin of my children who cannot escape the moving vehicle).
26. organic food.
27. organic beauty products.
28. organic everything.
29. cute buckets/vases/bowls/containers.
30. facebook.
31. blogging.
32. going to the movies.
33. fresh fruit.
34. good TV shows. Can’t wait for The Office season 6 to come out on DVD – I haven’t seen any it yet!
35. good books. And time (or rather, quiet) to read them.
36. dinner parties. I need to have more of them. I’ve slacked since child #4 came along.
37. dates with Andrew.
38. sleep. Thankfully, Paige is finally starting to sleep a little bit better. I wonder how long it’ll take me to make up for the lack of sleep from the last 5 years.
39. massages.
40. thunderstorms.

Some current pet peeves…

1. judgmental people. I’m working hard on not being judgmental, but as you can see, I need some prayer, because right now I’m judging judgmental people.
2. when people misspell lose/loose and chose/choose. You sometimes ’lose’ your keys, and your pants are too ‘loose’ when you ‘lose’ a few pounds. Yesterday, I ‘chose’ to go to church, and tonight I might ‘choose’ to watch a movie. ‘Chose’ is past tense, and ‘choose’ is present or future tense. Please stop the madness!
3. a messy house. I have six children though, and I don’t have ridiculous amounts of energy, so I really need to learn to get past this one.
4. the amount of chemicals and garbage that the crooked FDA allows to be put into the food that is sold at our grocery stores. Go organic!
5. how difficult and expensive it is to eat organically. I really want a garden!
6. hypocrisy. And fakeness.