fifty two

ok, so i'm going to try to play catch up here with my posts, since i'm way behind yet again. 

i have a love hate relationship with  blogging.

i love it and the kids all love reading it and looking at the pictures.

but i also hate it.  it takes time.  and planning. 

and i just can't get back into the swing of regular blogging like i used to do.

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so a month ago i celebrated my birthday.

my 52nd birthday.

yes i am now officially 52.

i say 'officially' because for the past several months or so i thought i was already 52.

and i was thinking that i would be turning 53 on my birthday.

and i kept thinking, wow, this gettin' old gig is happening rather fast.

but then the day before my birthday it dawned on me...

i was only 51 ... and about to turn 52.

and i felt like a complete idiot.

i'd aged myself a whole year for a long time.

i vowed that i wasnt going to tell anyone how stupid i'd been.

i mean, really, how does someone *honestly* forget their age?

sheeesh.

but then, because i cannot keep secrets, especially from my family,

i told everyone what i had done.

and they all laughed and laughed at me

and retold the story to others.

but i didn't care.

because my honest mistake made me feel rather young again.

i've been fifty two now for almost two years.

and fifty two ain't so bad afterall...

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my kids planned a nice celebration for me.

i have great kids.

really great kids.

they spoil me.

and so does my hubby.

i don't like attention on myself...at all.

and i would have preferred to have no celebration at all.

but they don't listen to me.

they made cupcakes with lots of sprinkles and a cake, too

and all the fixins for banana splits and other goodies, too.

it was fantastic.

and all the kids and grandkiddos

who live around here came to celebrate with me.

and my kids and wayne surprised me with my very own ipod.

a nano, to be specific.

apparently i mentioned one day awhile ago how it would be fun to have one.

(i don't remember that either.)

never ever dreaming they would take that little comment and run with it.

emma's gift to me was a rub on tattoo.

it said 'love' -  in chinese.

she rubbed it on my arm and i wore it proudly for a whole week.

but then it wore off. 

but i rather liked it. i felt very hip!

and i got some pretty jewelry from elsie.

some lovely flowers and hand drawn pictures from luke and levi.

and james made a trip to the dollar store and picked out a superman plate and a squirt gun especially for me.

and in the mail arrived fun birthday cards and more cute art work from oliver & gus.

i chuckled at how ana addressed the envelope ... it simply said "grammie" along with our address

no first or last name required, i guess.

and the kids all laughed at the birthday card too...

it was quite fitting since it's common knowledge around here

that i cant read a darn thing unless im wearing my reading glasses

and half the time they can't be found.

its an age thing.

the eyesight.

and the memory loss.

 

and it was a very good birthday.

i am blessed, indeed.