guilty of sometimes forgetting to remember every little thing...

but i really am grateful for:

• datenights - and sweet friends/family make them happen :)

• fresh flour tortillas - and sweet friends who bring them to the house after you casually mention how much you love them

• peace in the house after a very, very full week of playdates and overscheduling

• dinner with my honey at our favorite Mexican restaurant where the staff are sweet and attentive and the food is sooooooooooo good :)

• my iphone and the myriad of purse items it is able to replace - camera, flip camcorder, calculator, book, pedometer, watch, word search book, air hockey table (yes i used to keep one in my purse), flash cards, crappy old phone that never stays charged, pen and notepad, kid toys, ipod with permanently 98% flat battery, pocket-sized amazon.com for reviews/price checks, badly scribbled down piles of directions and addresses, coupons, store reward cards, recipes to shop for, etc etc etc. if only it was a lip balm too... and a credit card :)
  

• the new drumset :) playing the drums is hard!!! i almost earned a little respect for Ringo Starr - almost... then i remembered this video :)

• occasional glimpses of the sparkling pacific ocean

• pale pink peonies

• fake lakes in the middle of little tuscan inspired shopping centers

• estate sales - T minus 2.5 hours until the one around the corner. it's sinister and terrible to admit, but i really hope it's the former home of a formerly alive person... estate sales of dead people yield the most fascinating 'i was using this face cream, then i died' kind of curios. and sad items like unwanted grandparents' day gifts and photo albums...

ok grateful, back to grateful not spooky.... i am grateful for:

• living in Orange County... i am so hopelessly grateful for this everytime i attempt to drive inland on the 91 freeway

• a car that is reliable and safe and perfect for kids, and unpretentious and attitude-free and sensible

• my GPS which i would so hopelessly be lost without (the iphone GPS isn't quite as helpful and kind to me though it has the red freeway thing so i know that the 91 will be dead-stopped :)

• Trader Joe's perfectly fudgy slightly salted brownies, which save me from ever going near a ridiculously overpriced, obnoxious gourmet bakery EVER AGAIN!!!
  

• Fastrak - to facilitate my love for private stretches of highway with no-one on them :)

• DKNY cashmere mist

• never having been 'the other woman' (how i hate Rielle Hunter and all she represents)
  

• having a TV/DVD/DVR with just OUR shows in the bedroom

• parking in the garage and how easy it makes life with children

and everything else in between: checkered summer shirts, gappy smiles, Danny asking to go to the arboretum, Michaels coupons' used on tubes of sharks to reward really good little boys, fingerpainting with a baby, i love mom pjs, snapshots, taking photographs for fun, diet coke, good hair days, a full tank of gas, mcdonalds caramel frappes, linen paper, Vegas, apple pie, etc etc etc :)