* Love notes for no reason, left in my car or my purse ( or anywhere!)
* Hugs & Kisses from my children
* Feeling my Apple watch tap me when Stan sends me a drawing or his heartbeat
* Watching Stan with the kids and knowing that despite what life threw at them, they will grow up with a father who loves them
* Fresh cut grass
* Sitting outside in our backyard (our new project and work-in-progress) and watching the squirrels and birds (Now that we are feeding them with all sorts of contraptions, we have a LOT of new friends.)
* Coming home to all of the laundry being done
* Hearing my husband tell me that he realizes he never knew true love until he met me
* Watching our kids on the trampoline in their bathing suits with the sprinkler going underneath it... Ahhhh, the joy of childhood and having no worries... It's priceless.
* Hearing Sara and Skylar refer to each other as "sisters"... Even at 4, despite their circumstances, they have a sense of family that is strong. I love that.
* Middle of the night snuggles...Waking up randomly and realizing I am in the arms of an amazing man who loves me and who I love dearly
* Liam singing "Thinking Out Loud" to the top of his lungs in the car... He's my little Ed Sheeran
* Stan scaring Hope... (I don't know why, but she's a teenager and it's just fun...)
* Having two teenage girls in our family and knowing that they are both smart, strong & have a compassionate heart towards others... Thanks girls for being good examples for your younger siblings!
* Liam asking us every night "Will you sleep with me 10 minutes?", while holding up 4 fingers...
* Stan & I binge-watching television shows... Right now we are rewatching all of Walking Dead... It's just fun.
* Speaking with a British accent to the children just to be silly (they call it my Mary Poppins voice)
* Stan singing randomly in the car, making up the words as he goes, and me chiming in (right now, he is on a serious kick about being "Southern" and "the South"...) The kids get hysterically amused by us. Also, our renditions of famous movies scenes... A while back, we did a rendition from the opening of "Into the Woods" in our opera style voices. Hope videoed it. It was epic.
* The fact that I've made Stan a Disney freak like myself... I'm super stoked about that. (Although Disney certainly doesn't fall in that "free" category...Haha!)
* Knowing that I can make Stan happy every meal time just by picking Shane's :)
* Hearing my husband tell me every single day that he thinks I am amazing
* Feeling a true partnership with Stan, knowing that together, we love each other, respect each other and are a true team.
* Falling asleep holding hands, which we pretty much do every night.
I really could go on and on... I'm just blessed and sometimes I want to shout it from the rooftops. You get the idea.... So for those of you who have asked... Yes, I still blog... Yes, it's still random... and sometimes kind of like free therapy. :) I hope everyone has a great weekend!
~Leslie
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