Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 105

Today's Daily 5:

1. 1 year, 105 days of making these lists
2. sleeping late
3. Starbucks from a friend
4. Painting pottery at a local shop with a friend and talking as we painted
5. recognizing growth
6. visiting a dollar store with mom and finding the items I was hunting for
7. laughing over the fact that the first advent candle that I was so dreading signifies hope
8. sparkly tissue paper for wrapping a gift
9. getting a ride home
10. spending the evening being creative, and assembling the first half of the Jesse tree ornaments from this blog, for the way I've chosen to uniquely recognize Advent this year.  I printed the ornaments and sat on the floor of my bedroom for a couple hours with various scrapbook supplies scattered around me, making the ornaments unique and personal and pretty.
11. a surprise few minutes of skype with a dear friend who is currently traveling
12. recognizing growth and being surprised and blessed to discover it
13. sitting here, propped in bed, and staring at the map of the world and "wall of happy" across from me
14. taking time to paint my fingernails
15. a weekend that was primarily quiet and full of restful things
16. escapist television on dvd
17. a mug of tea
18. sweet smelling oil in my oil burner
19. making choices out of care and restraint
20. finding reasons to laugh, and feel joy