Feeding ducks and fish
Watching cartoons
Tickles
Watching swim lessons
A banana bread baking contest between mom and Grammi
Dinosaurs and trains
Origami straw rockets
Walks to the store
Noisy meals
Little boys arguing
Covid…. sigh…
Lunch at a really cool Soba restaurant
Helping address and stamp my daughters New Years cards
A snot tsunami after a sneeze
Two boys howling like wolves
Bey blades crazy
Walks to the post box
Veggie Tales Silly Songs with Larry
Quiet mornings for prayer before the family wakes
Reading a great book
Being buried in stuffed animals
Watching cooking shows with our daughter and son (in-law) after after the boys bedtime
A weekend road trip to the place my father served in the Navy
A Japanese dollar store trip
Coffee… lots of coffee. Almost daily trips to a coffee shop.
Tiny and huge hotel rooms
Smallest elevator I have ever seen
Word of the day: Magnificent
Random outbursts into song and dance during meals
“I’m hungrier than a peacock eating snacks”
Pokémon chip cards
Waking to two 4.4 earthquakes, that I originally thought were my cats scratching themselves on my bed.
Walking past the guard cat, seriously, with a pillow for a shield.
Gift giving and receiving.
Extravagant hospitality.
Aunts, uncles, cousins grandparents and great grandparents
Blowing bubbles
My father explaining crossword puzzles to his great grandsons
Wind and Sun
Used Kimono shopping with my daughter
Goodbye tears leaving them
Happy tears to see my honey again
An Ordinary Life 