Faye-flavored Heaven slice.

Judge blogged today about what his heaven would be like. I had to write an in-class essay more than a year ago about what MY heaven would be like for an English class (we were reading "The Lovely Bones") but I didn't put enough thought into it.

I figure since I just got done with a really satisfying conversation over Yahoo with a certain someone, I am in the right frame of mind to think about my Heaven.

The first thing I could think of was children. My heaven will be constantly filled with the light hearted laughter of children. We will be blowing soap bubbles a lot. In fact, it would almost constantly fill the air. There would be soft green grass all around and maybe in some places for variety, I'd have a patch of bubble-wrap to play on for everyone's popping pleasure.

There will be animals too. All the kittens, dogs and bunnies I have loved before will be there - and will get along with each other. They'll love human contact and we'll be able to understand each other.

Of course, in my girly Heaven, there will be flowers that grow wild so I will never have trouble finding one to match my outfit when I want to wear one on my ear. The sky will be mostly clear and blue with a Hawaiian sunset every evening. It'll be dark enough to see the stars every night.

It will be warm and sunny most of the time, but it'd get cooler at night so we could put on warmer clothes and cuddle by the fireplace and have an excuse to drink hot cocoa with marshmallows.

It'll rain too though. Light drizzles sometimes and other times it would thunder so loud and lighting would lash out in such a scary way that we would huddle up together for comfort. Instead of water, it could rain something different every time. Maybe lemonade, maybe gummy bears. Anything yummy. Every rainfall would be a treat. We'd go play in the rain alot. Blow bubbles in it, even. Get really wet and sloshy and then go home and take a nice hot bubble bath after. Except the bath has the foam you get from root beer floats that you can eat. While the children are still playing in the bathtubs, I'd start the fireplace and make hot chocolate for everyone while we waited for the rain to stop so we could ride the rainbow slide aftwerwards.

On hot days, we'd turn on the sprinklers, grab a hose or two and do the same.

I will also have a husband. I can't imagine having Heaven without one. He will be there laughing along with the children and making them giggle. He'll maybe read stories to them from the toilet while they sat on their potties. Dad used to do that with my sister and I when we were little.

In my house, there will be a huge library. Much like the one from Beauty and the Beast where you can read/learn about anything and everything. Except you'd be able to locate just what you're looking for without any difficulty.

Outside there would be a gigantic oak tree with a big tree house and a rope swing hanging from its branches. Also in my garden, besides flowers, would be fruit trees and vines. The more you pick them, the more they'd grow. There would be running water around my house. Like a stream with koi fish in it and a huge thundering waterfall with ledges you could jump of like in Maunawili, and the clearest coolest water we could drink from.

There would definitely have to be mountains in the background. Like the volcanic mountains I can see right outside my window here.

In my Heaven, we would take naps every afternoon.

Music will also be a huge part of Heaven. We would all have beautiful voices and be able to play any instrument we wanted to well. We'd gather around my grand piano or my harp (yes, I'm embracing the cliche - I love harp music) and just sing. We'd play and sing everything. Christmas carols, jazz, rock music, church songs, love songs.

Like Judge, there's going to be a ton of dancing going on. Sometimes something simple like "ring-around-a-rosie" and others, ballroom dancing or swing. Tango. Definitely. There'd be concerts all the time. There would be people there we could make music for or watch them perform for us.

In my Heaven, we would also play alot of games. We'd never get bored of Taboo or Guesstures. Or we'd just never run out of ideas for fun games to play. We'd fly kites alot too. And they'll actually stay up.

In the evenings at sunset, or later at night under the stars, we'd sit and watch while talking about philosophy, life, love and deeper things.

You'd never need a camera to capture the moments there. All you need are your senses. You'd be able to store memories with your eyes. You could capture emotions, smells, sights and sounds within those memories and play them back on a big screen for everyone to watch.

There would be so much more to my Heaven. I don't have time to plan it all out right now. In this less than perfect world, people actually need to sleep at night.

I hope that when I wake up every morning, I'll be able to find a little slice of that Heaven already in my life.