loves

• my tennis elbow arm feeling ohhhh soooo much better, thanks to that steroid shot thingie... which i highly recommend even though i don't really know what it is :) i haven't taken aleve all week, it's a miracle!

• short to-the-point-no-chitty-chatty-bullshit phone calls :)

• rain boots (especially on very rainy days)
  

• making Jerry a two story rattie dreamhome out of USPS boxes :) shh, don't tell the USPS... it says using their boxes for anything but sending mail is a federal offense or something :|

• lunchdates to Maggie's for fish and chips :)

• teeny tiny cards arriving in the mail from deepest, woolliest Wales (the envelope is smaller than the postage stamp and so completely adorable i am never throwing it away :)
  

• playdoh (and the way it's smell reminds me of christmases in the olden days :)

• a huge bowl of fresh really yummy oranges from our neighbor's tree (which still amazes me - they don't have oranges on trees in England... well maybe they do now, it seems like England is a whole lot more user friendly these days:)

• his penchant for digestive biscuits dipped in ice cold milk

• coming home from school caked in mud and pink cheeked from playing (yes he is always always shirtless...)

• the cape cod starfish i hung in the windows for christmas that are too precious to take down just yet...
  

• being surrounded by kittycats :) this is Trinity (who now has a cute little bobtail...), Sully, Charlie Girl and Lanora (who usually sits on the top of the cat tree:)