It's my birthday (well, yesterday) and I celebrated!

Beautiful hotel pool

I turned 50 yesterday.  I know.  It feels weird to me as well.  I remember when my parents were 50 and it seemed so dang old-seriously ancient-that I never contemplated reaching the age myself.  It’s here.  When in doubt, celebrate or run away and celebrate.  Groovy Girl attended church camp for 3 days near Des Moines   and my husband came up with the idea to “whisk” me away for those few days.  We stayed in a nice hotel with a very comfy white bed.  This photo doesn’t even convey how soft yet crisp the bed felt.

I had a white bed like this years ago when I was single and lived in St. Paul, MN. I didn’t have kids or a husband or two big hairy dogs; just me and a simple bed with white sheets and a white down comforter.  I missed it just a tiny bit as I enjoyed this one but not enough to trade the kids, the dogs, or the husband!  It’s just a bed after all.  Those other things make up my life.

  Here’s my birthday photos to share…

                                              Cupcakes with our friends Rocky and Mary Kay

My amazing in-laws (and I felt this way before yesterday) sent me a Kindle Fire!!  I played with it until 2:00 in the morning.  Our oldest daughter is doing an intern in NYC and she sent me a cool book bag from The Strand bookstore.  Our youngest made me a very colorful collage.  I gonna frame it.  Teenage Boy had a jingle writer write and sing me a Happy Birthday ditty.  Aren’t they creative!

Beyond the wonderful  trip my husband put together for me, with lots of gifts along the way, he still had gifts at home; the new Gillian Flynn book, Gone Girl and a CD of Michael Kiwanuka (Home Again) because he heard Michael on NPR and loved his sound. 

 I ordered myself Planting Dandelions by Kyran Pittman because I’ve wanted it for awhile.

Groovy Girl’s “Mama” collage

My little feet dragging at check-out time