My favorite things

When I was a little girl, I loved loved loved to watch The Sound of Music. It always came on around Christmas, which sort of baffles me now because it really isn't a Christmas/Holiday movie at all. My sister and I would do the whole So Long routine on our cramped little stairs. We could pretend it was a grand staircase in the middle of Austria. I wanted to be Leisl in the rain with Rolf. Sixteen seemed so old to me and she was so beautiful in her white dress skipping across the benches in the gazebo. When my babies were, well babies, I would sing My Favorite Things to them. "Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes, snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes, silver white winters that melt into spring, these are a few of my favorite things". I own this movie now. I have tried to get my own girls to watch this beloved musical and they can't make it through the first scene. Makes. Me. Sad.

So this song has been stuck in my head. I actually have been thinking a lot about my favorite things lately and decided to write them down.

1) Hot baths with bubbles and music
2) Naps
3) Reading
4) Running
5) Baking
6) Holding hands with someone, especially little hands.
7) Praying/Meditating
8) Yoga
9) Biking
10) Traveling
11) Wine
12) Desserts
13) Lemons
14) Morning coffee
15) Morning something else
16) My neighbors
17) My family
18) My friends
19) Colorado
20) Kids
21) Being Silly
22) Hammocks
23) The Symphony
24) Playing Board games with my family
25) The Beach
26) Kissing
27) Music...all the time
28) Fresh flowers especially Gerbera Daisies. Oh and Orange ones!
29) People Watching
30) Clean Sheets


I think while I fold laundry today(not one of my favorite things at all), I will pull the movie out and sing these old songs at the top of my lungs. Who am I kidding? I will have Coryn on the stairs teaching her the So Long song and how to exit gracefully while waving.