I Love

I love…
Reading and sleeping,
And doing kart wheels in the backyard.
I love sharpening pencils and I love jingle bells.
I love eyelashes and elbows.
I love clean sheets and bouncy mattresses.
What else do I love?
Everything,
Everybody,
Except badguys.
I love socks because you can slip with them on linoleum floors.
I love toes and I love music.
I love simple things and complex mazes.
I love hugs and kisses.
I love laughing and feeling all warm and melting inside.
I love my family.
I love singing and humming and running.
I love long hot showers and bubble baths.
I love chocolate and the early morning air during the summer.
I love when stars are brightly sprinkled in the crisp dark sky.
I love drinking out of a sprinkler with my eyes closed against the harsh stream of water.
I love loving things and I love loving people.
I love it when it’s quiet and also when it’s noisy.
I love highways and sunsets and fog.
I love seeing heat shimmering up from the playground asphalt.
I love rain and cookie dough and warm pie.
I love my friends and I love staying up all night.
I also love waking up early on Saturday and realizing I can go back to sleep.
I love cuddling,
With a blanket,
With a loved one,
With a teddy bear.
I love people who care.
I love taking care of people.
I love spinning in circles until I fall down.
I love when people know when to hug me or to leave me alone,
And when to tell me to quit whining.
I love the smell of a lawn being mowed.
I love blowing bubbles and trying to catch them.
I love airplanes, trains and riding in the trunk of a truck.
I love ice skating and sledding and igloos and cold red cheeks.
I love when life springs up from the winter as snowmen and angels.
And I love chocolate.
I love love.