With life’s difficult phases it’s not always easy to have even the smallest amount of joy in my heart. Here are some of the things that never fail to put a smile on my face.

Family.

Silence.

Hoodies.

Dramabeans.

A good book.

A well-told story.

The smell of a new book.

The sound of a laughing child.

Friends that bring out my crazy.

The smell of clothes just out of the dryer.

Finally nailing that cake recipe(look out Cake Boss).

Snow: right after it’s fallen and right before it becomes a nasty, messy pile of black goo by the side of the road.

Petrichor(Thanx Amy Pond for teaching me this word. And they said I wouldn’t learn anything from watching TV. Pffft).