BIRTHDAYS

Happy Birthday Tasha and Sandra!

This is not a year of big birthday bashes  for anyone and this seems not to be  a worry for anyone.  It frees up individuals to celebrate in their own time and place.  We have had lots of parties over this past year thanks to Sandra and Carol and Kim!

Birthdays were not a big production in my growing up years.
I do not remember presents and parties but always a birthday cake and a present from mom an dad and usually one sent out from England by dad's sisters.  This when I was younger was a fancy beautiful dress and would occasion thank-you letters sent immediately.

Now that we have young people like our daughters and granddaughters planning parties can be fun.

It would be fun to journey to the lake to take part in Lincoln's.  Hard to believe he will be two.

I try to remember birthdays with a card but sometimes remember too early or too late.

I am very vulnerable right now knowing that any deterioration in either my health or dad's will mean changes.  I feel that we should do our best to be healthy and I am thankful for the good health we have right now.

Megan arrived right on time from her work and got right to work doing the windows.  Between dad and myself we keep things pretty clean.  Anyway clean enough for me.

Anyway we have each been given the gift of life and there is no one just like you or me.  My life will never be lived by anyone but me.  Life seems to me to be racing by and although our past has some influence on our here and now it is not to be lived over and over.  I grew up in a time of worries for my parents.  My dad's concern was the war and his family in England and my mom was worried about her sister who had to go through a painful divorce. 

Worry comes natural to me but my main thing is to live my life now in a way that matters.