i love...

It wasn't Cupid's arrow that struck me today. Instead it was inspiration. The carrier? "Artful Blogging." To be more specific, it was Cori Kindred's Partial Post that caught my attention. Titled "love and some verses," this artful blogger simply listed things she loves. I thought it was a great idea and decided to do the same in honor of Valentine's Day. I hope you will, too! Link to my site, or leave a message letting me know some of the things you love. Oh, and happy Valentine's Day!

i love my FAMILY. i love my home. i love hot chocolate on chilly afternoons. i love the sound of children’s LAUGHTER. i love holidays. i love a star-filled SKY. i love sunrises and sunsets. i love book stores and old libraries. i love peppermint mocha frappuccinos. i love the smell of RAIN and of fresh-cut grass. i love snuggling. i love how the WIND felt when i jumped from planes. i love scented bath gels and lotions. i love scout’s DEVOTION. i love scrapblog. i love the sound of the OCEAN crashing against the shore. i love warm BATHS with lots of bubbles. i love containers. i love photographs. i love paper and colored pencils. i love that my HUSBAND takes care of his family. i love finding MAGAZINES in my mailbox. i love GOD. i love finding Orion, Pleiades, and other works of ART in the night sky. i love smooth-writing pens. i love BOOKS with good stories. i love music that makes me sing. i love the quiet of the MORNING. i love four-day workweeks, better yet, four-day weekends. i love balmy SPRING nights at the outdoor mall. i love having FAITH. i love how the yoshino cherry trees look like billowing clouds of COTTON CANDY when they’re in bloom. i love homemade banana MILKSHAKES (my mother's recipe). i love the feeling i get on a good run (i miss that!). i love the smell of breakfast cooking in my kitchen. i love a Hershey’s KISS. i love how quiet the WORLD seemed as i drifted to the ground with only the soft fluttering of silk overhead. i love camping. i love WRITING. i love talking to my SISTERS. i love hearing what HANNAH has to say and just being with her. i love feeling JOYFUL. i love all of the eye CANDY in “Artful Blogging.” i love my blog friends, and i love visiting their sites. i love writing good grades on students' papers. i love clothes that fit. i love looking at PHOTOGRAPHS from years past. i love Valentine’s Day because it reminds me of LOVE.