HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

Hello again! Yes I am back. Just for a short. So much has happened in my life the last 8 mos, and I have not had full access to my computer, so this will have to be a short update.

Happy Birthday to me! As much as I did not want to celebrate this birthday, it has turned into a wonderful one for me. It is amazing just how special the everyday can become with the love of family and friends. When I think back on this birthday, I will always smile.

I am 51 today. I woke up this morning not wanting to even think about today and what it meant. But the first words I heard this morning were from my dearest friend ever, Pepi, as she says ‘Happy Birthday!’ at 5 am! LOL  Within 2 hours I have had 5 people on my phone wishing me the same thing! Then I go to work, and try to tell myself ‘I can get thru this day if I keep my head down, and become invisible.’ But I work with Pepi, and she is not about to let that happen! She serenades me at my desk! Then one of the guys on the parts counter, Stormy, finds out it is my birthday, and gives me a wonderful birthday kiss!  Thank you Stormy!! Then Pepi tells my boss, Ed, who announces to the whole dealership that today is my birthday, and invites all who care to participate in joining him in wishing me sincere ‘condolences!!’ LOL

But this is not the last of it! Then she sends our service manager, Mark out to get me from the back 40, and almost drag me inside, where we all have a piece of birthday cake, which of course Pepi has made herself! Spice cake – of course! (She knows how I love spice cake!) Then, not to be outdone, Robert, one of our salesmen, cons me into sittin on his lap, (Which I would never turn down as he is very cute!), and the next thing I know, I am butt up in the air, waiting for a spanking! Thankfully, Jeremy was the only one in the warehouse at the time, and didn’t want to “beat on anything that old – I couldn’t handle all the dust!”  

While all this is going on, I have received a total of 83 text messages from family and friends today all with birthday wishes! OMG!! I didn’t know that many people knew me!

Then when I get home, to my utter shock and pleasure, there is a box waiting for me, with wonderful little notes all over it, from a wonderful loving daughter, and her family. Inside this box is one of the most priceless gifts I have recieved in a good number of years… it is simply a photo album…. but what is inside this photo album is so wonderful!  Pictures of all of us as a family over the last two years. All the things that have affected all our lives in one way or another. These are more precious to me than any other gift I can think of. It was amazing. It was like having them all here with me!

Then Pepi made me burritos for dinner! YUM!!!

Thank you Heather, and Pepi, ShawnDe, Mike, Ed, Bud, Yvette, Diane, everyone at work…. this has truly been the best birthday! A wonderful memory! From a wonderful family and the best of friends. I am touched. More than I can say!

And thank you to everyone who donated pictures to Heathers little project! It is a priceless treasure to me!