The 3-5 things that gave me joy this week:

1. Someone returning my purse after I left it in a shopping cart at the store.
2. My Christmas Cactus blooming.
3. The book safe my boy made me for my birthday.  We are doing “no new” gifts this year, has to be second-hand or hand-made. Leo Babauta just wrote a really good post for zenhabits.net about this practice, “The No New Gifts Holiday Challenge.”
4. This tiny, hand-painted bowl that my friend brought me back from Greece a few summers ago, (inside right now is a shell I found and a marble from when I was a kid).
5. And these three boys, always these three boys.