100!!!!

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this is my 100th post here on Genuine. It only took me a little over a year to get here, and what an adventure it's been! And what better way to celebrate 100 posts than to list 100 things I'm grateful for? So, here they are in no particular order:

• Blog posts (of course!)
• Chocolate chips
• Sunny days with cool breezes
• The Grace of God
• A good book
• Living in an age which makes traveling the world easy
• My mom
• Tulips
• Photographs
• The color purple (not the movie or the book, just the color...it's my favorite)
• My KitchenAid mixer
• Comfy chairs for quiet times
• Redemption
• My dad
• Computers
• Coffee
• Air conditioning
• Lolly Joy (my Honda CR-V)
• Friends who love me
• Sunsets

20 more...

• God's Word
• Music
• Smoothies
• Candles
• My siblings (and sibling in-law!)
• Plants that don't die when I touch them
• That Jesus died and three days later rose again
• My wonderful Strudel house roommates
• Cell Phones
• A creme brulee kitchen torch
• Men who are strong and can lift things I can't lift
• Babies
• Electricity
• Suede
• Romantic comedies
• Calculators (my old-school TI-83 in particular)
• Giggles
• Pillow-talk
• Getting dressed up in the bathroom with girlfriends and sisters
• My college degree

And 20 more...

• Epic movies with gripping plots, breathtaking cinematography and captivating soundtracks
• People who help me to laugh at myself
• Brie
• That I have my daddy's blue eyes
• Striped socks
• Down comforters
• People who give money to let me do what I do
• Red walls
• Sweet white wines
• Eating hot dogs at the ballpark
• The use of all my limbs
• Zephaniah 3:17
• Chargers (not the ones from San Diego, the ones which go under your dinner plate)
• Showers
• Roads without potholes
• People who like animals because I just can't seem to get myself to
• Cotton
• Ponytails
• People who have gone before me
• Lips

And...you guessed it...20 more.

• Bungee jumping
• Pillowtop mattresses
• Spiritual gifts
• Childhood memories
• Popcorn with butter and salt (and sometimes orange cheese)
• Excel documents
• My staff team
• Picture frames
• Biblical femininity
• Cross-stitching stockings
• Mood lighting
• Dance parties
• The fact that my mom does my taxes
• God's very great and precious promises
• Dancing to Il Divo with my roommates
• Good deals
• Live piano music
• New adventures
• Office supply stores
• iPods

And the final 20...

• Pampered Chef ice cream scoops
• Massages
• Numbers
• Television shows on DVD
• My Wii
• Laughter from the soul
• The Navigators
• Biblical masculinity
• Going home
• Seeing some of the natural wonders of the world
• Noblemen
• Penguin cookies
• Forgiveness
• Heroes
• Family
• Flip-flops
• Dictionaries
• Water (to drink, in falls, for swimming in...just water)
• Chance meetings
• Friends who inspire blog posts about things for which I'm grateful

Happy 100th post!

P.S. A note on the 99th post: I thought I had 99 posts, but realized one was an unpublished post which is no longer relevant. So, I had to add one more to make this one the 100th post actually posted on my blog.