Year 5 is upon us dear readers, and this year, I took a different route when making the list of awesome. There are 52 weeks in a year, and there are always 50 items on the list of awesome. But in years past, I started thinking up the awesome-ness just a few weeks before the list went up. And this year, I’ve been dating as I go. A year of awesome. Enjoy!
4/6/14 – Soaking up Vitamin D
4/13/14 – Perfect beach weather
4/22/14 – Kids who play games outside from dusk till dark
4/30/14 – The sound of rain when you have nowhere else to be
5/6/14 – Pulling off a great homemade dinner when you didn’t feel like cooking
5/11/14 – Getting your daily dose of Vitamin D first thing in the (beautiful) morning
5/19/14 – YA novels that suck you right in even though you’re inching closer to 30.
5/25/14 – Spending the entire day at home, with both the windows and doors wide open.
5/27/14 – Seeing children use manners without being prompted by adults.
5/30/14 – Crawling in bed a little earlier than you planned (this on a Friday night, dear readers).
6/13/14 – Thank you notes with real love in them.
6/19/14 – Challenging yourself to read a book a day.
6/24/14 – Sipping drinks on a back porch.
6/30/14 – Having someone cook you a meal from start to finish, and not letting you lift a finger to help at all.
7/1/14 – Reuniting with friends.
7/3/14 – Iced coffee.
7/4/14 – Holiday traditions.
7/5/14 – Friends who stay later than everyone else for one more margarita.
7/16/14 – Getting good news when you didn’t expect to (#AndThenWeBoughtAHouse).
7/26/14 – Surprise birthday wishes.
7/27/14 – Three-tier birthday cakes (pictured)
8/7/14 – Walks on the beach.
8/18/14 – Starting fresh.
9/1/14 – Spending a long weekend with favorites.
9/20/15 – 90s dance parties.
9/23/14 – Songs that give you goosebumps.
10/16/14 – Spending a beautiful day outside.
10/18/14 – Tailgates.
10/25/14 – Hugs. Hugs are so awesome.
11/16/14 – Thanksgiving. And Fakesgiving.
11/21/14 – Unexpected froyo stops.
11/22/14 – Buying handmade.
12/13/14 – Watching old movies
12/27/14 – Friends who send you snaps when you’re not together.
1/17/15 – Podcasts.
1/19/15 – Hearing the sound of demolition on the house you have been waiting five months to renovate.
2/14/15 – Surprise cupcakes waiting for you after a workout.
2/21/15 – Movies that act as love letters to New York.
2/22/15 – The sun coming out after a week of frigid temperatures.
2/22/15 – Feeding others a meal
2/27/14 – Getting a compliment.
2/28/15 – Acquaintances who become friends.
3/1/15 – Cheap pizza.
3/7/15 – People you’ve known forever.
3/12/15 – Cookbooks
3/19/15 – Good news
3/21/15 – Cured meat
3/25/15 – A killer playlist
3/28/15 – Getting so lost in a book that you forget you even have a cell phone.
4/2/15 – Group texts that start at 4:30 a.m. each day and don’t end till 11:00 p.m.
a glass of milk 