With our big Christmas trip completed, and what with settling in to life at home again my birthday sneaked (yes, that is the grammatically correct way to say sneak in past tense) up on me this year. And boy did God make me feel spoiled and special this year! I received several cards in the mail and got way more special birthday calls than usual. I also received lots of goodies and good eats. Matt grilled t-bone steaks for dinner last night and we paired those delicacies with twice-baked potatoes, spinach salad with crumbled blue cheese, and homemade rolls. He also gave me a gift card to Kohl's and a lovely bouquet of tulips (my favorites flowers!). Better than all of that, Matt spent the entire day with us and didn't do a lick of studying or reading. We played scrabble and watched playoff football. And Chloe treated me by having a good time in the church nursery! For the first time she wasn't crying when I went to retrieve her. She was smiling and there were no traces of tears or screaming on her face. YAY!
As for the rest of my loot . . my mom sent me an AWESOME new coffee maker, my dad sent me a card with lots of birthday money, my sister called me from new zealand (that isn't loot but it's very special to me), my gramma sent me a Christmas table runner and yummy chocolates, my pal colleen-weeny sent me some cool stationery, and jenny sent a generous gift card to red lobster. See why I feel so spoiled?!?!
Fuzzy shot of our cool new red coffee pot!
Shoes I bought for $4.40 at our local thrift store with my birthday money.
TULIPS!
13 comments:
oh what a wonderful birthday! i am glad you feel spoiled. how wonderful. i love your new coffee maker? (mine is boxed up in our basement and we are using our french press for a while to save counter space. i know i'm weird.)
scrabble sounds like fun! i found a scrabble game at our thrift store for $.99 and it is only missing a few letters. - jas and i have played together but we get too competitive... so we will have to work on that.
i am glad chloe had a good day in the nursery. that is a blessing.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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janelle
Happy Birthday!
Glad to hear that you had a wonderful day!!
1. Happy Birthday
2. Tulips are my favorites, too!
3. great coffee maker
4. I had an English teacher who taught us the past tense of "sneak" in this delightful manner: "The only think you ever snuck is snot!"
I told you, delightful!
Sounds like you got some great gifts. Happy Birthday! I love getting gift cards to restaurants. It sure makes for a cheap date!
Happy Birthday! (hat's supposed to sound like Frosty the Snowman's voice in your head when you read it). At least that's how it always sounds in my head :-)
Anyway, I'm so glad you had such a happy day. Thanks to the Lord's presence in our lives we're all so spoiled beyond what we could ever deserve...
Happy Birthday! I used to think 30 was soooo grown up, but now that I'm nearing it too in the next couple of years and I don't feel "grown up", it sounds young still!
I'm so glad Matt was able to gift you with a day of no studying or reading. And Chloe having a good time in the nursery. You can't put a price on those!
Karis
WOW!! Sounds like you had a wonderful birthday!!! It is so nice to spend time with your hubby and little one, isn't it??? It makes it such a perfect day.
Happy 29th Birthday OLD friend!! I can say that with great liberty since I will be hitting 30 here soon myself. Ahh, where does the time go? It seems like only yesterday . . . :o)
Wow, what a special birthday! Sounds like you had a wonderful day.
Happy Birthday! (Now I'm thinking of Frosty - I watched that about 10 this Christmas!) I'm glad you had fun and were spoiled - you certainly deserve it!
Happy Birthday Alicia--I love days spent with my family--Matt and I love playing games together, and two person games aren't always the easiest to come by--have you tried speed scrabble?
Glad you had such a fun day!
Happy birthday!!! Sounds like you had so much fun; I'm so happy for you. :) And I am also the ripe old age of 29 . . . only I will be hitting 30 in less than 4 months! Crazy. It sounds old, but I know it's not--I don't FEEL old, anyway! :)
Thanks for all the sweet birthday messages, everyone!
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