100 Things That Make Me Happy Besides Money

I cannot tell you how great this feels!

It happened more times than I can count while Beth and I were playing cards as teenagers, at Beth’s place during college, and even a few times in Lawrence. In fact, once time, we had to clean the water I’d spewed into the dining room, onto the table, and onto Jame’s cool picture (luckily it had a class cover!). Sometimes Rob does it to me too, and usually in the wee hours of the night when we’re silly-tired.

They’re beautiful. They’re so expressive. I could stare into them, laugh with them, cry with them forever.

I’m into honesty. I know that I’m not funny. When I try, it usually fails. Miserably. As a teacher, I never know if my students are laughing because my joke was actually funny or if it’s just because I’m the teacher and they earn brownie points by laughing. I hope it’s the former. I even [...]

Ahhh… is there any safer, more comfortable place? I submit that there is not. Sometimes we sleep facing each other, just holding hands. And that is quite wonderful. But what I really truly love is when we “spoon,” with his arms wrapped around me, his breath tickling the hair on the back of my neck, [...]

I’m not talking about the laugh he gives 90% of the time, but that laugh from something deeply hilarious to him. I first fell in love with it after we got married. I would be in the “office” (which was an oversized TV tray next to our bed) working while Rob watched TV in the [...]

I know, I know, this topic is intimately related to #6, but I still feel that it deserves its own spot on my 100 Things That Make Me Happy Besides Money list because I get a happy, satisfied feeling when we reach a solution. Quite often we talk about our fighting patterns and how we [...]

This one seems kind of obvious, doesn’t it? We haven’t been married that long, only a little over 3 1/2 years, but we’ve dealt with enough to know how strong our marriage is. Before we were married, I had a lot of debt. Rob didn’t have money, but he helped me in a more intangible [...]