(reviving this category for November)
:: good health (having come through the dreaded preschool stomach bug with only one case in the whole family, and it didn't go too badly for him)
:: hand-me-down yellow mums on my front steps
:: tiny tooth marks left by squirrels on our pumpkins
:: friends who can pick up your kid when his younger brother has a bladder explosion at home right at the moment when you need to leave
:: the knowledge that the three-year-old stage can and does end... eventually
