a list

last weekend husband and i were driving to a friends house for a cookout (during a rain break), and we had a lovely moment. we were running late as usual, the boys were in the back seat being themselves, and then we noticed that miles was listing the things that he could see out of the window; tree, truck, tree, party place, traffic, tree, etc. it reminded me of something that i heard julia roberts say about her children in an oprah interview....

"That's the thing about being new to the world, you're just so present and impressed with everything... The older you get and the grumpier you get, (it's like), 'We've got to get there. We're going to be late.' You know, they're in the car; 'Look at the tree!' Everything is exciting."

....here we were rushing to our friends home, thinking about the next thing, and miles was blissfully present in his time and space. la di da :) when i heard julia roberts say this, the first thing that i thought of was laying in my neighbors grass as a child just watching the clouds go by and thinking about the roundness of earth, without another care in the world. i think i need a little more childhood simplicity in my life. so, in honor of simple pleasures and being present in my own time and space, i give you a list of simple things that i love....also an attempt to look at the sunny side of life on this miserable gray p-town day.

1. watching a smile spread on my boy's faces
2. feeling the sun on my face
3. being barefoot
4. listening to the wind move through a ponderosa pine
5. ocean waves
6. hiking through the woods
7. the smell of cut grass
8. birds chirping in the morning
9. my bed
10. silence

happy friday!