Happy Things

• Being told by a nine-year-old, "Your specialties are sweet things and drinks." (He had just received a gift of homemade peanut butter balls, and he liked the orange julius I made for Cmas brunch.)
• A roommate for a week!
• Getting a Cmas gift from the manager of a local English institute who wants me to teach there
• A candlelight Cmas Eve service
• Being proud of my students who took part in the Cmas Eve service
  
• Hearing that two of the three siblings who deposited money for Cmas in my bank were asked by the teller if they wanted a balance to the account . . . my account. One said yes, not thinking, and received my account balance!
• That my fat envelope of Cmas gifts from home arrived several days before Cmas!
• That I have Bath and Body Works shower gel once again
  
• The amazing Skype technology that allowed me to see my family open my Cmas gifts!
• Online gift cards
• Cmas Day brunch with people of eight or nine different nationalities
• Baskin Robbins "babysitting" ice cream
• Wearing an almost matching shirt to Chad's today (Central pride)!