It's My Birthday!

Today is my birthday - my 65th birthday - and I am so excited! No, not about turning 65, but that I get to spend some time with children and grandchildren tonight at a restaurant (of sorts) nearby. For me, it isn't about the birthday, it's about spending time with those I love so much, and making memories that I, as I grow older, can reflect on. It is everyone taking time out of their busy schedules to humor me, and spend time with me.

That has been my request the past three years - for my family to come near and have dinner with me. It doesn't matter where we go, just that we are together. My youngest son can't join us as he is in South Carolina, and I have one granddaughter in Safford, and another granddaughter - and great granddaughter - in Nebraska that can't join us. But, that's ok. At some point we will all be together.

We will get to see our granddaughter and great-granddaughter next June when she gets married. She has asked me to officiate her wedding - and I said yes! Now we have to save in order to be able to get there! But we will get there. Haven't been to Nebraska before, and I bet it will be beautiful then.

I'll see my granddaughter in Safford soon - she will come up and we will go to our favorite hang-out place - Cold Stone Creamery. I like taking all my grandchildren there at some time or another. We just go and sit and talk - and of course eat ice cream! Fun times, for sure. Treasured memories. This princess is getting married next May - but we won't have to travel far for it.

I've already received a lot of cards in this mail this week. It's always fun to get 'happy mail'. I even got a package from my little sister yesterday - only hubby forgot to bring it in - so I got it this morning! That was fun.

Hubby gave me just what I needed - a bottle of Red Door cologne - I think I'm down to the last squirt or two in the bottle he gave me last year. It obviously lasts about a year for me. :-) He has gone over to the restaurant to make sure we have tables reserved for tonight. It's a buffet place so it is a little easier to get tables pulled together, but one has to get there early in order to get them.

Anyway - not worried about gifts - nor cards. I just enjoy being with my family. They make my birthday perfect.

I had something I was going to add this morning, but I think I will just leave it about me. After all, I am important too. Some may not think so, but I do. God made me very special, and He made this day special just for me.

I found out on facebook I share it with four friends. Well, I knew about two of them, but not the other two. See how special we are?! I read somewhere on a card where they put 'God danced on the day you were born' - and I like to believe He did. He loves me and He shows me all that time that He does.

Yeah, sometimes He has to discipline me. Sometimes it feels like it is more often than not. But He disciplines me because He loves me and only wants the best for me.

And God blesses me. All the time. Sometimes it is just by letting me feel His Presence. Sometimes it is letting me hear the birds sing outside my window. Sometimes it is in a book I read, a special passage that touches my heart. Sometimes it is in the times I get to spend with those I love.

Life is good.

Blessings!