The things I treasure...

Some mornings, you wake up and you immediately know it's gonna be a good day.  Even before you climb out of bed.  Other mornings, that alarm goes off and I'm not talking about the one on your nightstand that screams out at you to wake the heck up.  I'm talking about the one in your gut that says, uh oh....maybe you should just stay home.  But those good days....oh, those good days.  Those days for me are the ones, where the alarm goes off, Big Sexy silences it, rolls over to me, rubs my back and says, "Do you want me to run you a bath?"  Ahhhh, now those are good days.  While that bath water runs, I lay in the bed thinking that it's moments like these that I treasure.  Then, I get to thinking, what else do I treasure?  Suddenly, all kinds of things start popping into my mind.   Here are a few of them, some are obvious, others may not be, then some are just rediculous, but they are all my things......enjoy.

1. Obviously, being woken up for work by my husband running my bath water for me. 
2. coffee.  Starbucks.  Okay, a Venti, Sugar Free Vanilla, Breve, Latte if you must know exactly.  Just in case you want to bring me one.
3. Wednesdays that my husband comes home from offshore.  These are magical days.  Nothing can touch me.  Not even being yelled at by a woman in a tutu and and a tank top (yes, this has happened).  I refuse to let anything or anyone put me in nothing but a good mood on these days.
4. old school hip hop and "dirty" songs.  Not the current songs that are obviously lewd, but the old school "Funky Col Medina", "Wild Thing", "Push It", "I Touch Myself"....okay, maybe those last two are obviously lewd, but I love those songs like that from the 80's and 90's.  I mean come on, who doesn't love Sheena Easton's "Sugar Walls" and Prince's "Darling Niki". 
5. My best friends.  Period. I would fight tigers for them.  TIGERS, I say.
6. pulling up to a red light and finding someone in a car next to me with their finger halfway up their nose, staring at them with a look of disgust until they look your way and watching them literally peal rubber trying to get away when the light turns green.  This makes me giggle.
7. Head rubs from my husband.  This can make even the largest of problems seem so small.  It's a simple stroke that makes my shoulders and back immediately relax and know that everything is okay.
8. putting on a jacket from last Fall/Winter, sticking my hand in the pocket and finding a $20 bill
9. A braided section of my mother's hair kept in a ziplock bag.  Weird?  Nope.  When I need her or feel like I need to feel her around me, I go to that bag, open it up, and smell it.  Even after eight years, I  swear, I can still catch the faint scent of her White Shoulders perfume in that bag.
10. Crawling in bed with my kids after they have gone to sleep and listening to them breathe.  But only for a little while because Chunkamunk starts to snore and Little Man sleeps in positions that typically only gymnasts can do. 
11. Smiley Face sugar cookies from the local bakery.  Because if a smiley face sugar cookie doesn't make YOU smile, well, then I don't know what will.  

12. listening to my kids giggling in the man cave while building a fort.  Even if they only get along for 5 minutes, I'm loving it.
13. Degree for Men deodorant.  Okay, for some reason, it's the only thing that works for me.  I do my best to smell girlie, but I have to go for this deodorant cause I don't like to sweat there (or sweat at all).  Secret Clinical can suck it.
14. bubble baths, with a glass of wine and some "Everything But the...." Ben & Jerry's ice cream.  The whole pint is mine and if you attempt to get some, you will draw back a nub.
15. those evenings where the sun is going down and the sky is all pink and purple and orange.  It's absolutely breath taking.

It's not always the serious things that people need to treasure.  I mean, if you were writing a list of those things and didn't put your children or husband or family, then I would wonder what kind of person you are.  But, we also need to learn to treasure those things that make you who you are.  I could list many more, but there's no need in letting you peoples see just how strange I am, even though you probably already have a notion.