The Waiting Walk

• Sunshine ☀️
• Sabbath 
• My kids 🥰
• My teens going out of their way to do something nice or fun like clean the house without me asking or make breakfast for the family (today was one of those!)

• Texts from my oldest, especially if she texts me first in a day 🥰
• Dark Chocolate (like 85-90% dark)
• A clean kitchen
• Springtime in Oregon

• Sunshine
• Phone calls with my parents 
• Crawling into bed at night 😴
• Lemongrass Spa skincare stuff
• Listening to my favorite songs playlist 
• Former students who make a stop in my classroom just to see me and say hello 
• Future students who pass me in the hall and offer a hug saying they can’t wait to be in fifth grade
• Piggy Paint

• When my students do their beginning/end of day classroom jobs so lights get turned on/off and everything gets put in place without me
• Teaching Sabbath School
• A good discussion where people have differing viewpoints but still like each other during and after the conversation
• Flowers

• Sunshine ☀️
• Praising God in song at church or school 🎶 
• Majestic views

• Friends I can laugh with and hang out with
• Bible verses that speak to exactly where I am in a given moment
• Walking in nature

• Sunshine ☀️
• God’s transforming power and grace in my life and the lives of my children ❤️ And this last one is seen in conjunction with almost all the previous ones mentioned!

Even when there are things that stress us out or that are downright ugly, I still want to notice things that make me smile.

So what tops your smile list?