Simple things that make Homer smile.

• Walking home from work, enjoying the warm evening sun, and having a family of ducks waddle across my path.
• Getting home and crouching down to take off my shoes. I get a welcome home slap on the back by Marge, that puts me off balance... followed by Maggie racing through and slamming her hands on my shoulders. I almost fall over.
• Helping Lisa brush her teeth. And then watching my daughter laugh herself silly - seeing herself mirrored in the tap spout.
  Bart comes in to see what's going on. And then both of them are cacking themselves, pointing at their distorted reflections.
• Hearing Lisa string words together to form simple sentences.
• Maggie. The questioning 'huh?' she utters whenever we ask her a question.
• A spontaneous picnic at the park after work. Seeing Bart overcome his fear of heights to climb to the top of the previously unscalable 'Castle of Terror'.
• Maggie's determination to pick up my mobile phone whenever she sees it, and return it to me.