When It's My Birthday

So today is my birthday. Isn't it amazing as the years start to pile up, how one's outlook on birthdays changes. Youthful excited anticipation, slowly gives way to subtracting the year you were born from the current one so that you can figure out how old you will be, and sadly they don't sell birthday candles in bulk packaging.

Remember the games? Like bobbing for apples, musical chairs, and pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey?

All your friends were there, dressed in their finest and ready to play even more games after the obligatory "group" pic

(hee, are we having fun yet?)

After the games, usually we opened the gifts, expressing gratitude for what we received

(I must have missed the "Miss Manners" memo that year)

After the gifts came the festive birthday meal - usually hotdogs, potato chips and birthday cake with icecream.

That was then, this is now. So far today, I've done laundry, run some errands, and hope to get in my studio soon. Nothing is planned, hubby has to work late. But, that is okay. The sun is shining, the girls are coming home on the weekend and we are going to have a bbq and celebration then. In the meantime, I'm just thankful that I am one year older (no wiser though) and have so much in life to enjoy and appreciate. The date of the day is not what is important. Let every day be your birthday!

To anyone else out there marking a birthday today or any day this month, many happy wishes to you.