Happy Birthday to ME!!

 I always get so sentimental on their birthdays.  I am so very thankful to have been blessed with two healthy children.  I thank God for each year that passes.  This year on my birthday, I showed up to work with my door decorated from top to bottom. I was given a crown and wand for the day. If you know me at all, you know I enjoyed every bit of it.  :)  My kids LOVED that is was my birthday.  Hearing Happy Birthday from 120 6th graders is quite fun. They were very excited it was my day. :) I even got a present from one child, who claims to not like me at all.  It was all wrapped up nice and neat, with a handwritten note from her.  I love it.  I spent the day doing all my normal things, picking up from dance, getting the kids changed for soccer, watching a soccer game, then home for cupcakes!  When I finally sat down for the day, snuggled next to my miracle blessings I once again thanked God for each day.  I pray each day that I get to see my children grow old. I want to live until I am all wrinkly and hunched over, cooking Sunday lunch for whoever will still come.  I hope I am a  very happy old wrinkly lady.  You may be laughing at me right now, but I am very serious about this.  I am fully aware that life is too short.  I hope that when I look back on my life, I see more days of laughter than of sorrow. I hope that I spend the majority of my life enjoying being a mom rather than bogged down by the daily trials I am facing.  I need to read and re-read my saying this over and over on the days that are hard.  It is my goal in life to find the good in each day.  I want to teach my kids that too. I am so very blessed.  I have my precious family and it's all I ever dreamed of. I look forward to what God has in store for me this year.  34............sounded so old not too long ago, and here I am, 34.  I am so ok with it.

Thank you Lord, for each and every year I have here on Earth.  May my life be glorifying to you in every way. I know I am not perfect, nowhere near actually. I take you for granted. I take my life for granted.  I don't stop and say thank you near enough.  I am healthy. I am so very thankful for that.  You have blessed me more than I ever deserve.  It is my HONOR to raise these two precious children.  I am so blessed to have such a loving husband.  I am humbled, and thankful today.  All I have, all I am, I am because of YOU.  May I live each and everyday to honor you.  Amen.