Birthdays

As we get older, people tend to want to forget their birthday. I haven't really ever gotten that, well I did when I turned 30 and realized it is just a number. The saying, "you are only as old as you feel" is so true. Anyway, I just had my 23 36th birthday with pride. lol I mean I don't feel anything different. I look almost the same and hell, I still get carded when I buy an alcoholic drink. All kidding aside it isn't the fact I get carded and am old older, but the fact that I have been living for 36 years and I was given a chance to choose the way my life goes. It is up to me to make it count!!
It started off a great weekend, Friday night with friends. Saturday was my day to recover from Friday and I felt bad. I realized my kids, much like others I'm sure, pay attention to the littlest of things we do when they don't feel good. They brought me aspirin, covered me with blankets and wanted to be sure I didn't need a trash can. I was having a migraine and hangover headache in one. So, while I was feeling miserable, my children were amazing me. I do get pretty bad headaches so they know how bad I feel when I have one. **Something to remember - what does just a headache even feel like? Be glad if you are lucky enough to have those.** So I made myself get up because I wasn't gonna waste my day. The weather was gorgeous I couldn't have asked God for better. So we all wash up, they made me soup and were waiting with a movie when I came out. We opened up the windows so the breeze could come in and all piled in my king size bed. We did that most of the day and went to the park for a while too. Our mistake was wearing shorts in April. That's right I said April. We got cold because we were getting in some type of cool front that apparently doesn't know it is freakin' April. So we stayed as long as we could stand it and then went home. Now I love fishing and they really wanted to go, but we were so cold. So we said we could do it another time. Sunday was a day planned of going to my parents. They were going to bbq and I had been looking forward to it. I had also allowed my daughter to go to my parents the night before so she could help make the cake(which was chocolate). We came over in time to eat lots of food, lots of cake and open presents. Then we went outside to play games and guess what?? It was still cool outside. lol We stayed out for a bit and then came in and the kids all spread out doing there own thing. We were going to rent a movie to all watch together, but it ended up just my dad and I. There are few things my dad and I do together anymore so it was nice. When we got home, I guess it bothered the kids that they didn't get to go shopping for me. So they all made me their own cards and handed me prized possessions of their own for my birthday presents. lol I was touched, but told them the best presents I had were them themselves. I thanked them and told them to keep "my presents" back in their rooms. I will say the day was no different than others. We did things we would normally do, but I sure did appreciate everything I had so much more. "if you want to see how rich you are, count all the things you have that money can't buy"