Little Things Make Me Smile- And Remind Me to Breathe

Little things make me happy. And sometimes, when I get really overwhelmed with life, I make a list just to remind me to smile and take a deep breath. That happened this morning- and here’s the list I came up with.  Some things are diabetes related-and some things are not. But all make me smile~

 

The feel and smell of the air after a rainstorm at the beach

Fresh Blueberries

Loose tea brewed just right

Parallel parking into a parking space on the first try – I’m freakishly good at parallel parking- if I do say so myself!

 Solving a problem on my MAC sans help

 Making people laugh

Convincing my niece that Hannah Montana is indeed the devil’s spawn

Achieving “Blood Sugar Nirvana “ after eating pizza

 Learning to let go of things I can’t change.

 Correctly blousing for something I’ve never eaten before.

 Fresh Green Iced Tea with mint sprigs and Pineapple Sage

 Glass Beach at low tide

 Bonding over insulin pumps with a stranger

 Bolus worthy baked goods

 Thumbs up from my Endocrinologist

 Summer Farmers Markets

 That over whelming feeling of happiness that fills me whenever someone writes a comment on my Blog Post

 Coming to the realization that I did indeed eat 5 servings of fruits & vegetables at the end of the day

 Heirloom Tomatoes

 Vanilla Soft-Serve Ice Cream on a plain cone

 Doggies

Cinnamonny Stuff

 Watching my nieces Tess and Cristin perform and knowing that they will and are living their dreams.

 My niece Maddie’s amazing art work in all mediums

 The wonderful feeling of anticipation of D-Meet Ups

 The great feeling I get AT the D-Meet-Up

 Fresh sheets on my bed

 Laughing out loud at the movies

 Swimming in the ocean

 Pretty Shoes

 Laughing from my belly

 Letting myself have a good cry when needed

 Oatmeal cookies

 Finding extra pump & test strip supplies in old handbags and suitcases.

Musicians who are even better in concert than they are on iTunes

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