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Things I love today on my birthday

1. Getting up before 6 to have coffee and write
2. Mugs
3. Sound the wind makes in trees
4. The eggs benedict Scott makes me
5. Dinner/lunches with my friend
6. My was my dog sneezes
7. Swimming
8. Catherine Newman’s newsletter
9. Talking Taylor Swift easter eggs with my kid
10. This board game
11. Stories I’m writing
12. These chocolates
13. Travelling anywhere
14. Swimming in the ocean with my cousin
15. Getting on a plane
16. Celine Dion
17. Pink fish
18. Slowing down
19. Listening to my kids talk about anything, everything
20. Tea
21. Iced tea/lemonade
22. Talking to someone about a shared loved book
23. Giving someone a book they’ll love
24. This movie
25. This show
26. Peaches
27. Strawberries
28. My new pink glasses
29. Meditating (when I do it)
30. Tulips
31. Wild flower gardens in Toronto
32. Croissants
33. Bunting
34. Bob’s Burgers
35. Frozen rootbeers at a&w
36. Family drives when just laugh and look for animals
37. The bathing suit I got last summer (huge splurge but LOVE it)
38. Naps
39. Ginkgo leaves
40. How the littlest things still make my kids so happy
41. Reading on a train
42. Birds
43. Swearing
44. Hugs
45. My job at the bookstore
46. Breathing, feeling content
47. Ann Patchett
48. Doing the NYT puzzles and everything with Scott

Whew, did it.