Things that make Tom smile...

....in no particular order

Slip’n slides
Chocolate anything
Drinks served with umbrellas
Autumn leaves (red and yellow)
Good books (non-fiction)
Long Hot showers
Owning a holiday closet
Booking a cruise
Stained Glass Windows

Grandma Barton's: choo-choo-train-track cookies, chicken fried steak, cinnamon Rolls, Sausage Kolaches, & Gingerbread-boy cookies with M&M buttons

Remembering summers with Grandma Barton and making homemade noodles (24 egg yolks), then hanging them on the clothes line to dry

Remembering Grandpa Barton say: "Too damn much gravy", "People only hear 10% of what you say", "write it down and put it in a box - later if you write a book, you'll have to call it fiction!"

Thinking about going to Gaylen's deer lease in the "good-times" van and being sooo sick

Thinking about Grandma Beyer and "falling off the floor", "chimley", "black kernels in cream-of-wheat" & the "kitchen zink"

Remembering Alta Loma get-togethers & Playing in Grandpa Beyer's workshop

Roosters
Playing a game and remembering someone's made-up rules
NOEL/LEON
Smell of homemade apple pie
Fluffy beds
Puppies & small lap dogs
When my children have sleepovers
Massages
When someone asks me an "IT" question
When someone asks me a credit card question
Appreciative people
A smile from a stranger
A smile from a friend
Tulips
My kids
My kids going to school
My kids coming to visit
Talking to my friends
Being invited to lunch with friends
Laying and watching the stars
A good thunderstorm
Snow
A DJ who can work a crowd
The Nutcracker Market
Helping other people spend their money
Crisp air & burning ears on a winter-night stroll
A working automatic gate
Sharing a joke
Private family jokes
Mexican restaurants
Any restaurant with a complete separate margarita menu
$8 soap
The Convention Crew!
Convention Crew Shirts
Blue cheese dressing
Sour cream
Quesadillas
Taking a really good picture
Catching people singing in their car
Buy one-get one free (OK, anything free!)
Fig Newtons
Extreme Christmas decorations
Fleece
Betty BOOP
Riding home with my carpool companions....they really crack me up
“Honky-tonk badonkadonk”
GRITS!
Friday
Sweatpants
Chilly weather
Venti Mocha (Whole milk & with WIP!)
Rachael Ray and Paula Dean
The thought of chili-flavored Frito's in Acapulco
My leather jacket
Bath and Body Works
Long sleeved T-shirts
Halloween costumes
S’mores
Taking a nap on a Sunday afternoon
Reading fortunes out of fortune cookies
The smell of real vanilla extract
Fondue
Getting free tickets to an event
Changing into comfy clothes after work
Helping others do their job easier
Getting compliments
The way chenille feels

Thinking about Cedar Lodge vacations and eating left-over potatoes & onions (fried)

Thinking about giraffe’s long, very sticky tongues

John Denver's "Sunshine on My Shoulders" song, even the elevator versions

Finding out a friend or co-worker is pregnant with triplets
Women in maternity clothes
Random giggles from children

The way the ocean tastes when walking up next to it

The songs "What Child is This” and “Mary, did you know”

Humming "It's a Small World" when I shower and "If I only Had a Brain" when I work . . . (Both songs crack me up . . . A lot)

Winning $$$ on a scratch-off lottery ticket