3 things that make you happy:
Jumping monkeys
Snow
Seeing Salmon at Pipers Creek

2 things you are looking forward to today:
Walking Coal (in fresh snow?)
getting work done

2 long term things you are looking forward to:
hiking
playing dreidle

1 person you are going to appreciate:
my brother (it's his birthday)

validation

3 things that make you happy:
validation
snow
fungus

2 things you are looking forward to today:
snow
play

2 long term things you are looking forward to:
chrimmus
snow

1 person you are going to appreciate:
jo

3 things that make you happy:
Laying in the snow
the way snow looks on the trees
the way snow makes everything quiet

2 things you are looking forward to today:
walking in the snow with coal (c'mon snow, don't melt!)
quiet evening in a warm house watching for snow

2 long term things you are looking forward to:
skiing
snow shoeing

1 person you are going to appreciate:
Frosty the snow man?

3 things that make you happy:
Making diabetic pumkin pie for my parents and Alan and Jo
Making my mom snort (she snorts not I)
Watching Coal mooch food from my mom (and watching her sneak food to Coal)

2 things you are looking forward to today:
My parents giving Coal attention
Silliness with my parents

2 long term things you are looking forward to:
Skiing
Getting together with Renae

1 person you are going to appreciate:
my mom

I am thankful for...

3 things that make you happy:
my family (all of it, but especially my Mama, & Alan, & Boo)
my husband & the home we have built together
my health (I have certainly been missing it these last few weeks of having a cold!)

2 things you are looking forward to today:
Flee at Three from the office! (thanks to my boss)
seeing some snow on the drive to Spokane

2 long term things you are looking forward to:
quiet & loud, calm & boistrous holiday time with family & friends
the new year & the blessings that it will bring

1 person you are going to appreciate:
God

New teacher!

3 things that make you happy:
Kristen getting the teaching job at Whitman, the middle school we attended together
my finished flannel pj pants (they're huge, but comfy)
the rain (if only I could stay at home all day!)

2 things you are looking forward to today:
another successful Festival of Hope
quiet evening at home

2 long term things you are looking forward to:
snow
Christmas music

1 person you are going to appreciate:
Pastor Rich Gamble, whose sermon I am about to attend

Sewing Hymns

3 things that make you happy:
light (candles, sun, Christmas lights, etc)
satsumas
familiar hymns

2 things you are looking forward to today:
buying the Christmas issue of Martha Living
attending my last sewing class & finishing my flannel pj pants

2 long term things you are looking forward to:
someday finding a special place to display my big glass float--I love glass floats & this is not only a large one, but it's also very special as it belonged to my G-maw & G-paw & was given to my Grandma Donnie & now it has come to me
experiments in sewing

1 person you are going to appreciate:
the singer/songwriter Marty Haugen (thanks, Mama!)

3 things that make you happy:
playing my zithers
walking on the beach
goofing off with chris

2 things you are looking forward to today:
quiet cope list activities
seeing our dentist, whom i like

2 long term things you are looking forward to:
having the dentist visit behind me
more zither music sheets coming from germany

1 person you are going to appreciate:
dr friedel

3 things that make you happy:

Coal
Fancy
Grumbles

2 things you are looking forward to today:
Cuddling with my cats
Coal's last day of anti-biotics

2 long term things you are looking forward to:
Coal on the beach
Fancy in the sun

1 person you are going to appreciate:
All of my pets (I'm cheating again)

3 things that make you happy:
good friends
tickle fights
talking about books

2 things you are looking forward to today:
playing in the snow with Bethany
more sillines with Bethany

2 long term things you are looking forward to:
Bethany getting a new job
Taking Bethany to Mt Rainier

1 person you are going to appreciate:
Bethany

...and I'm going to cheat because I can. I'm also going to appreciate Coal, the best dog in the world, who had dental surgery yesterday

Rainy Mothers

3 things that make you happy:
autumn rains
playing on my zithers
transcribing music that i can then play

2 things you are looking forward to today:
wishing my mother a happy birthday - 86!
being out in the rain

2 long term things you are looking forward to:
honoring my mother-in-law in my thoughts and songs (she passed away on saturday, after a difficult illness)
new lives, carrying forward the spirits of our families

1 person you are going to appreciate:
"the mother," as an archetype? or perhaps more accurately, as a blurring of together some special mothers (mine, jo's, our grandmothers, jo herself, some young mothers near to us, some still as yet mothers-to-be)