Favorite Habits from Mommy

As much as I'd love to ramble on about how awesome and amazing my mom is, I thought it would be more fun for you and myself to think on some mommy influenced habits, preferences, and lessons learned.  Here are some of my favorites:

1. Reading about psychology and self-help
2. Lingering at coffee shops
3. Loving Europe, especially coffee shops in Europe ;)
4. Getting lost faster than your average directionally impaired person
5. Maintaining logic and a fair amount of objectivity in emotional circumstances, usually
6. Labneh and honey
7. Listening to arabs talk
8. Sharing clothes with my mom
9. Never leaving the house in sweatpants, except in college a couple times....
10. Staying active.  I credit my mom with the less rugged activity I enjoy and my dad with the more rugged
11. That compliments are just as meaningful as insults, not meaningful at all.  The intentions, though, those are meaningful.  They don't reflect you, but the other person
12. Day spas are good for the soul
13. Money comes and goes and we'll be okay no matter
14. There's a lot you can do with lentils
15. The kitchen is a magical place
16. Fresh bread is a miracle drug, or just a drug
17. Observation first, calculated decisions second, action third
18. The scientific method is just as applicable to relationships as it is to anything else
19. You actually CAN choose how you react to something
20. You can actually choose most things about yourself
21. Making mistakes is a necessary part of life and nothing to be ashamed of.  If you don't learn, then be ashamed but also patient with yourself
22. Take a joke
23. Eat veggies!  And cake occasionally
24. I love my mommy