Happiness is...

I could have blogged about this everyday if I'd wanted to take the time. Now that my blogging days are nearly over (for the next 18 months at least), I realized I simply can't leave without at least one post dedicated solely to friends. I love my friends. It isn't hard, seeing as I have the best friends in the world. I hope they know that I love them. I've never had as many friends as I have now, which is something I always seem to be saying. That's super, because it means I just keep making more and more friends and I hope that never ends. Because I love people. And I love loving people. And I love people loving me.

I'm grateful for friends who... 

Listen to me

Laugh with me

Think I'm funny

Serve me

Tell me their stories and sometime their secrets

Eat with me

Take me on sprite runs

Feed me

Let me borrow movies

Watch musicals with me

Sing along to musicals with me

Watch Doctor Who with me

Give me rides to the grocery store

Write me notes

Bring me cookies

Make me laugh

Go on adventures with me - big ones and little ones

Paint my nails

Have dance parties with me

Cry with me

Sing with me

Tell me they love me

Let me complain to them

Stay up late talking to me

Pick me up just because they can

Go to toy stores with me

Throw birthday parties with me

Feed ducks with me

Go on walks with me

Forgive me

Invite me to Jane Austen dances

Watch sunsets with me

Guess where I'm going on a mission

Go to art museums with me

Swing with me

Cheer me up

Make paper boats with me

Teach me how to make paper stars

Dress up with me

Take pictures with me

Watch fireworks with me

Watch parades at my grandma's house

Make dinner with me

Take me to the roof of the MOA

Remind me life is good

Encourage me

Inspire me

Make piñatas with me

Celebrate random holidays

Blame me when they burp

Introduce me to awesome music, movies, books, and TV shows

Exude awesomeness

Talk to me

Remember me

Invite me to hang out

Listen to Showtunes Saturday Night with me

Wish upon shooting stars and 11:11

Kidnap me

Give me advice

Have deep conversations about life with me

Looks like this list could go on forever and ever and ever and ever and ever if I don't stop myself. Because I have so many wonderful friends who do so many wonderful things for and with me and I am so grateful for it all.

Dear Friends, 

And I am going to miss you soooooo much! But I'm excited for all the new adventures that lie ahead and I can't wait to make more and more friends throughout my entire life. As long as I still get to keep the old ones--which I hope to do forever.

"Happiness" from You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown is obviously the only way to end this post. As the traditional finale song each time friends gather around a piano to sing, this song holds so many beautiful memories for me and, on top of that, I love the message. Thanks to everyone who has brought happiness into my life, especially in the past three months. Happiness is singing together when day is through and happiness is those who sing with you. Happiness is morning and evening, daytime and nighttime, too. For happiness is anyone and anything at all that's loved by you.