That’s right yesterday I turned 41! I have often felt these past few years that in fact I have some how gotten into a club that I really don’t belong in...thus I find myself snickering in the back. “hehehe..they think I belong here but I REALLY don’t.”

I do have to say that now however I realize, in fact that I DO belong here and it is quite alright.

I have loved growing older. there has yet to be an age where I have felt the “crisis” of getting older. For me youth was a time of feeling lost and I could feel as my years grew so did my knowledge about who I was, and who I wanted to be, thus the feeling of being lost grew less and less every passing year. I did not always recognize it that way, but again with age come wisdom and with wisdom comes reflection and with reflection comes clarity.

A new friend asked me today if I am okay with birthdays because I did not post about it yesterday. The truth was I just had such a busy day and I still had to get my Monday post out...it was all I could do to get that post done.

My birthday has had it’s moments...being adopted there has always been....mmm...how do you say....emotions around this time of year....It’s because it was the day that I could almost be guaranteed that my biological mom was thinking about me. And being younger I just was not as whole as I am now and it left me feeling sad and disconnected. So certainly there was a time where the birthday came with emotional baggage.

Age, creating my own life, and an event that happened two years tomorrow contributed to shifting my feeling towards my birthday. It will be two years ago tomorrow that I first spoke with my biological mom, Carol. I gave her a phone call. It was emotional as you can well imagine. It has been a positive reunion, and I am so thankful I took the journey to find her and now that part of my life has been tied and completed.

It was a lovely day.....

there were cards....

a beautiful flower arrangement

from friends...

my favourite card...from the boys...homemade...

gotta love that!

fresh flowers for the bathroom...

from The Horticulturalist

I love that.

There was lunch in the afternoon

with a friend...an afternoon

cocktail with another friend...

dinner with other friends...

not too bad eh??!!

After dinner it was dessert time at one of our friends homes with some other couples including our dinner dates. It really was a lovely, most perfect day. I felt loved and blessed...and I worked it as well, doing the least amount of mom things that I could for a day...I think I did pretty good, though there was laundry that needed to be done.

This is my favourite gift, from the Horticulturalist...a ring that he ordered from Rosy Revolver....

http://rosyrevolver.blogspot.com/

I don’t have it yet...it is in transport....it’s called The Gilded Snowflake...

The gifts are nice, the cards are good, a phone call, a text...they are all great. But it really comes down to the people...I am most blessed by the people in my life.

I am thankful for my life....today and everyday...