Happy Birthday To Me

Everyone keeps asking how it feels to get older. I have to say that part doesn't bother me in the slightest. I just keep getting all these reminders to enjoy the moment because all I truly have is this moment, right now so I don't want to waste it with stressing out about getting older. Mostly I'm just really grateful. My dear friend Jamie was in the hospital this weekend and gave birth to her baby girl Olivia but had a major snafu with the c-section and ended up in emergency surgery where they had to remove her uterus and give her a blood transfusion. It was so wonderful to hear her voice this morning and to know she is on the other side of it. She sent me a party in a box so we will have a birthday party tonight thanks to her!! She is so sweet she's just had a baby and come through a life threatening surgery and she keeps calling me to make sure I'm ok today.

I miss my mom even more so today. She always made my day special even when I didn't want anything. She kept telling me about the movie Little Miss Sunshine so we watched it this weekend and I could almost hear her laughing with us at the end. I think she would appreciate me wearing one of the little tiaras that came in Jamie's party box. Bear and Coop keep eye balling me like they want my tiara!

Bear got Cooper's cough and fever this weekend and they both had us up at 4 am on Saturday and then with the time change we got all discombobulated. Bear went to sleep at 5:30 last night and Cooper was out at 7:30. So today we are adjusting nap times. Bear still has a slight fever so I didn't take them to the gym. Jim was good to me and we sort of spread out my birthday celebration. We had a splurge dinner last night and he let me open one of my presents last night. I'm finally with the now generation and have the cute little iPod shuffle. I was up figuring it out and getting a workout play list together. This morning we continued the tradition of blowing bubbles like GiGi loved to do.




After the bubbles we went for a walk around Lake Lynn. My new iPod came in handy since I couldn't go to the gym. They both fell asleep halfway around the lake and I was jamming to some Madonna and Gwen Stefani. I honestly had to resist the urge to dance but I did belt out a few, "I ain't no hollaback girls" along the way.




On the way to Lake Lynn I let them get out and chase the geese and Coop got to climb his first tree!

My favorite part about our walks-