Work work work and more work; this year I had a real quiet birthday…
My husband slipped a 2 gig memory card into my Pentax camera the other day after he returned from a trip to Fry’s Electronics. I had always used a 1 gig card that I share and swop with my Contax (been too busy to get a separate one and always forgetting to) but now I don’t need to do that anymore, Yay!
After a full week’s work, we spent a nice quiet evening having dinner made of Southwest Homemade Tortilla Wraps with Chicken Breast, fresh veggies, cilantro dressing, fresh fruits and not forgetting my favorite British Stilton Mango-Ginger Cheese and Tiramisu treat from Central Market. Yummm!
It was a simple no frills evening, just what I needed after a long week. Despite the simplicity it was a perfect evening. After that I headed for some peace and quiet time being with the girls and a long restful sleep. This morning I woke up to this; a nice quiet stroll down the street with gorgeous trees. It is a nice day.
Now on to the birthday fiber sampler contest. For those of you enjoying the advantage of our November Specials BFL fiber and the Kromski wheels special promotions in our online store, I’d like to thank you for your purchases and support in our endeavor. For that and also to extend the birthday spirits, I am giving away a fiber sampler gift to 3 lucky winners. Why 3? Simply because I had to blow 3 candles on my birthday, and so did Nadya my little girl who had her birthday a week ago. Well, I am not 3 but if you guess right I am 3 decades old 
Anyways, each gift to this contest will consist of 8 oz variety of prepared fibers. (go to www.mataharispinnery.com for a visual teaser.
To enter, just leave me a comment to this post on what it means to you to be a year older/younger (however you see it) in your life, include your email address so that I can get in touch with you if you’re one of the lucky 3 winners. The winners will be drawn randomly and will be contacted at the end of the contest. Contest ends on November 12 at midnight Central time. Good luck!
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November 5, 2006 at 5:25 pm
Jeane
I’m turning 61 in January and I love being a year older. I work in a group home with 6 mentally and physically challanged “kids”. I’m starting my 8th year in January, so my birthday is a time to reflect on the my personal growth, and the personla growth of my “kids”. Some of these “kids” are rejected by their parents, and so I’ve become the official mom to most of them and I get to take pride in their accomplishments, and grieve with them in their times of sorrow. I learn life lessong from each and every one of them. So my birthday is a celebration for me and my “kids”.
Hugs Jeane
November 5, 2006 at 5:25 pm
Shannon
My birthday is 11/17. Every year on my birthday, I think of those who have made an impact on my life over the previous year. If I can, I send them a note letting them know how much they mean to me. And thanking them for sharing my life.
If I’ve learned something new, accomplished even small goals,
touched other’s lives, and appreciated those who’ve touched mine…it’s been a good year. Baby steps through a good life.
November 5, 2006 at 5:27 pm
Teri
My philosophy on birthdays has always been that you don’t suddenly turn a year older all in one day; you turn a day older, which is just like every other day. So rather than save up your celebration for one day a year, try to find a way to celebrate or commemorate your life every day. I don’t manage to do it every day, but I do try to remember more often than not that time is passing and that I need to check in with my self every now and then to make sure I’m not missing Life(tm).
November 5, 2006 at 5:30 pm
tisjewel
1st – Happy Belated Birthday! To you & your daughter.
My birthday is 3 days before Christmas, I don’t think it’ll impact me much. I think age is in the mind, and is defined by how you feel about yourself and your life. I guess in that retrospect I feel a lot older than I am, but there are those moments where I feel so much younger and so much livlier. My family is a big part of who I am and how I define myself, without them I’d feel ancient!
November 5, 2006 at 5:33 pm
Jane Plaugher
Each decade marks the beginning of new and exciting things. I am truly getting better, but yes of course getting older. I am lucky to be able to be doing the things I like best, fiber and family related. Well not necessarily in that order. In January I turn 61 and I am still learning and still adventuring into new and exciting things. So to all that dread birthdays, first it beats the alternative and then you are never too old to change. Don’t I know it, as a nurse, then social worker, now fiber artist.
November 5, 2006 at 5:37 pm
Ginger Brown
HI, and Happy Birthday to you both. I am very blessed to be having another birthday on Dec 4. I had a heart attack at the age of 42, while being a single mom, a new police officer and a full time student. Every year that God gives me is a blessing and I cherish every one. I learned to spin this year, and find it one of the most relaxing things I can do for myself. I have a very supportive husband and 16 year old son, and since I am unable to work outside my home, knitting and spinning are the things I do. I knit hats in the winter and donate them to my local Social Services dept, who then give them to thier elderly clients, and this is my way of giving back, something I feel very strongly about. Again, Happy Birthday to you all and may God bless you all. Ginger in North Carolina
November 5, 2006 at 6:06 pm
Candace
I turned 51 last month and the “50’s” have been hard on me. 50 hit really hard- and I let myself go- physically- gained 40 lbs and mentally. 51 finds me in a program run by the local hospital for weight management and looking to return to school. Maybe 52 will be the good one!
November 5, 2006 at 6:58 pm
Cena Brown
Every year I think about all that happened in the last year. I have small children, and each year that I get to spend with them and my husband is a gift from Heaven.
November 5, 2006 at 7:24 pm
Katie
From a younger perscective- Birthdays can’t seem to come fast enough. All of my peers want to be older. We will be happy when we’re adults. But then what? Why not be happy where we are. Everyone dreads getting older, so why are we in a hurry? The same holds true for older people, you can’t stay stuck in the past, thinking of how things were when you were when you had that body, or that handsome boyfriend. You have to stop and enjoy life where you are, wherever that may be, if you’re 17 or 70. Furthermore, you don’t age in a day. My dad always asks me if I feel any different than I did the night before, I always tell him no. Then he asks if I feel different when I was three, and of course I do, for one thing, I can tie my own shoes now! Your birthday is just a number to write down on forms. All year long, all day every day, you’re growing and changing and becoming older and wiser and gaining life experience. Birthdays should be celebrations, reguardless of the number of candles on the cake. Happy Birthday!
November 5, 2006 at 7:28 pm
Melissa
Happy birthday! I don’t think about age very much — my best friends include people ten years older and ten years younger. I just hope that I have gained sufficient wisdom and maturity in my 43 years to be worthy of the grey hairs that I now pay to get colored!
November 5, 2006 at 8:30 pm
Aimee
Happy birthday!
I never feel older after celebrating a birthday, but I like to think about where I was at that time last year. Last year, one of my friends died a few hours before my birthday. This year, I celebrated my birthday and her yahrzeit. Each year there seems to be one major event that I can mark the year with, and *that’s* how I really think of my age, not in years.
November 5, 2006 at 9:07 pm
Melanie
I am aproaching my 4th decade and I have to say I’m really excited about it. The older I get the more I get to be me! As I get older I can cast aside what others think of me and that I don’t have to look like a super modle.
November 5, 2006 at 9:08 pm
Julie Sparkuhl
It’s great being a twin but now and then I always dread having to share a birthday. We sometimes get into fights about where to celebrate our special day or whom to invite. Its times like these that I wish I had a separate birthday. I could celebrate it at the location of my choice and invite my friends, but I realize that there’s a person missing and that would be my sister. She wouldn’t be there to celebrate this great day with me, and I realize after this thought that it’s great to share my special day with her and I wouldn’t have any other way.
November 5, 2006 at 11:31 pm
elizabeth
Being a year older (my birthday is next month) means being comfortable with who I am and where I’m at in life. For a long time, I wasn’t at peace with myself – thought I should be further along in a career, make more money, be more accomplished all around. Then I realized that the experiences I’ve had in life – both good and bad – are what have made me who I am, and I like who I am, or rather, who I have become as I’ve gotten older. I celebrate birthdays as a marker of my continual journey towards being “me.” Happy belated birthday!
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November 6, 2006 at 12:23 am
Diane
Happy Birthday to you. I had my 52nd birthday yesterday Nov.4th.Age is all a mind game.Yes some mornings I feel 52 and sometimes older, but I want to do things now that I never was able to do when I was younger.When your young you are thinking about a career,husband and kids.Then you obtain those and you have no time for things for just yourself. Now I am “free” to think and do those things that please me and my husband and not worry that we have to answer to any one but ourselves.I am spinning again and knitting and learning new crafty ideas.My husband loves that I have become a much happier person as well.Life is too short and I refuse to conform to the idea of getting older means to “take it easy”.I’m living the life I want and would never want to go back to my 20’s again.Enjoy life and again Happy Belated Birthday!!!!
November 6, 2006 at 1:18 am
Jan
Birthdays are always introspective for me — it’s not so much that I am a year older but that I have been given a day in which to honor the goodness of the past year, mourn the losses, and refresh my faith in the world. It’s hard in these tough times to find joy but each birthday is a marker to remember to look for that joy everywhere, from fall leaves (i’m an October baby) to the colors in my yarns and fiber and to the delightful discovery that the older I get, the more I gravitate to following my bliss, wrappping my world in color and texture.
November 6, 2006 at 3:47 am
Sarah
On my 30th birthday I decided not to worry about things too much anymore. Needless to say that philosophy has led to some of the best years of my life. Granted, I’m 32 now, and this year hasn’t been great, but who cares? Being another year older just means that I get to learn something new about myself.
Happy birthday, to you and your little one.
November 6, 2006 at 1:12 pm
Ruth S.
I used to think birthdays were a huge deal, but now, as I have aged, have realized that it is another day to celebrate your life. We never know when we won’t get another day, so we need to celebrate every day we do get. Recognizing and celebrating those we love every day and letting them know how they have impacted my life.
November 6, 2006 at 1:36 pm
Anne O
When I reached my forties (five years ago), I realized that I now could do more of what I wanted to do in my life. Not what my parents, children, or significant other wants, but what I want. This has made me focus on what is important to me: the people in my life, spiritual pursuits and my fiber related activities. Now, with each passing year, I am happier.
November 6, 2006 at 2:50 pm
Cheryl
Happy belated Birthday! I love birthdays, I think of each one as bringing me closer to having things figured out. Every year I get a little bit wiser.
Oh, and I but myself a new spinning wheel on birthdays too, so it means that too: another wheel!
November 6, 2006 at 3:08 pm
Michelle McMillen
Wonderful comments; happy birthday, all! My birthday is Nov. 12 (when this contest ends), and it zooms by faster every year. I also have more interests every year, it seems (this year I added spinning and re-introduced knitting after a 25-year hiatus), so it feels like I have less time and more that I want to do with that time. Sigh…. I must prioritize, especially since I have an only son who will be turning 5 shortly after I turn 45….
November 6, 2006 at 3:11 pm
Jen
What a great idea for a contest! For me, being a year old means something different each and every time it happens. Sometimes if means that another year is gone forever and reminds me to keep looking forward. Sometimes it means I’ve grown and learned and hope to use my new knowledge in the upcomming year. Lately, it makes me think about that fact that time flies and I really need to make the most of it, even though I’m not sure what making the most of it would be exactly
November 6, 2006 at 3:12 pm
Beverly
Happy belated birthday wishes to you! I hesitate to respond, but can’t resist the chance to win free fiber. I am 56 and not aging gracefully. I have chronic depression and I am sure that is making me feel older than I am. Each year that passes is one less year I have to accomplish the goals and fulfill the dreams I have for life. The Good thing(s) are fiber, spinning and knitting.
November 6, 2006 at 3:22 pm
Christine
My birthday is tomorrow. I’ll be 43. I think about how my life has changed over the years. How did I end up 43 years old with a life so busy and scheduled I don’t have time to breathe? Instead of a wild night out, I’m taking a day off from work and kids and slowing down. I’ll be plying some purple romney and organizing some fleeces to send off to the processor. This will be one day out of my year that isn’t driven by interruptions. Of cource when everyone gets home in the afternoon I will have missed them terribly. Such is the cognitive dissonance of being a mother
November 6, 2006 at 3:23 pm
Lynne Ipsen
What a wonderful website you have and a great testimony to your celebration of life.
I appreciate every new year with a new chance to breath in life all around , a chance to be with those I love, and to give and take within the dance of life.
November 6, 2006 at 3:42 pm
Angela Cooper
I too have a birthday coming up (11/27). For me, another year passed has meant all the world of difference for my baby girls. They turned five this year and marked many milestones. It has been so hard to believe that five years have passed since the doctor told me that it was likely that they would be born too premature and that they would not live. Against all odds, my baby girls fought for life and struggled through all of their initial baby and toddler hood…not reaching any of the “normal” milestones that other babies did…not sitting up, not talking, not walking when they were “supposed” to. They made it through all of the early intervention therapists, the cardiologists, the apneas and bradacardias and have now started kindergarten. Last week was my very first parent/teacher conference. To great relief, I was finally told that my precious baby girls were “normal”. In fact, they are excelling in both academics and social interaction with their peers. My greatest prayers have been answered this year and so, as I celebrate my birthday this year, it’s about giving thanks and enjoying the milestones!
November 6, 2006 at 3:57 pm
Anita
I turned 58 on October 23. Becoming another year older means lots of things to me. Its another year I have had to watch my grandchildren grow and a year to welcome a new one to the bunch! It means I’ve lived nine years longer than my father did. It means I have overcome health problems one more year. And it also means I have had time to learn more fiber things, try out new materials, knit more socks and meet lots of wonderful people who actually understand my addictions!
November 6, 2006 at 4:01 pm
Kathy Fellows
I’m turning 50 in January, all I can picture is black balloons, at work you get black baloons and your picture pasted on the rest room doors!
Maybe I should request bright yellow, that would make it more cheary! I think it means that I’m getting almost to the senior citizen and I love spinning and crocheting and I really don’t mind at all.
November 6, 2006 at 5:44 pm
moiraeknittoo
Happy birthday to both of you! For me, birthdays are usually a time of quiet reflection on what has happened in the past year, as well as thinking about what I want to do in the coming year. It’s a moment to pause and honor all the changes that occurred over the past 12 months. My birthday is in the middle of the summer (near the end of Cancer), and usually a quiet walk along a beach, a river, or some other body of water feels appropriate. Very mellow, fairly subdued, and usually very personal.
November 6, 2006 at 6:23 pm
Donald
What it means to me to be year older:
With every birthday I’ve added one more year of life’s experiences – a year of love and time shared with my family, a year of smiling as much as possible, a year of appreciating everything in nature, a year of doing everything important, and a year of memories stored away. I’m also a year closer to taking my memories with me, leaving my possessions and troubles behind, and becoming part of something bigger and more wonderful than I can ever imagine. Whether I go on to an eternal bliss, or my soul and life’s energy is returned and recycled in this world, I know I will always be better for being one year older.
Happy Birthday to you and your daughter.
November 6, 2006 at 7:29 pm
Marilyn
I feel very blessed to be a year older. A little over a year ago, I was in a bad card accident that should have killed me. The Lord saw fit to save my daughters and me and I’m just happy to be alive! Every year gives me another chance to enjoy His wonderful works and my family. Every year gives me another chance for more grandchildren, to spend time with my kids, and extended family and to serve my Lord in whatever way I can. I will be 53 next week.
November 6, 2006 at 9:26 pm
Teri O.
Ahhh…birthdays cause such a mixture of feelings for different people. I am on the wrong side of my 30’s and couldn’t be more pleased. The older I get the more people I get to know, the more of the world I get to see and the more I comfortable I am in my own skin. As far as the big birthday day itself, it is a day of celebration for me. This was day I was born and I like sharing it with the ones I love.
November 6, 2006 at 9:34 pm
Lori
Every year on my birthday, the inner child in me thinks about the prickly, tingly feeling I get when the blood rushes to my checks just as everyone starts singing “Happy Birthday” to me, the sense of wonder and expectation I always experience ripping the wrapping paper off the presents I receive, the feel of the air bursting from my lungs as I blow out my birthday candles splattering wax across the frosting of my cake, and the searingly painful, cold, rich, gooey first bite of my favorite ice cream and birthday cake all mushed together as it sticks to the roof of my mouth giving me a brain freeze. Then the inner voice of the adult me begins to speak of the experiences I’ve encountered over the past year – some enchanting and miraculous, others heart wrenching and blindingly sad, but most, thankfully, mundane and ordinary. A single tear escapes the corner of my eye and travels down along my nose. My mind is very quickly awash with visions of each and every instance, the happy, the sad, the proud, and even the not-so-proud, and I clearly see everyone and everything as I relive the past year over in the blink of an eye. While I gaze into the faces of those nearest me, I think, “There’s so little time, it’s all happening too fast!” My hand sneaks up to wipe away the tear, then I smile and laugh and my eyes crinkle with happiness as I reach out to hug and kiss all those around me.
November 6, 2006 at 9:45 pm
DJ Langer
I turned 58 last spring and it does at times have me thinking about how sort life is, but not often. I find it nice to be at a point in my life that I actually have some of the answers. LOL and its nice to have my know-it-all youth behind me. and while some may find it more ‘acceptible’ to voice opinions on everthing at this age, I am finding it a pleasure to decide not to voice them. My options have broadened, right along with my hips, I might add. Life is pretty good and I really have never been one to mind getting older, it is just a natural process and I choose to enjoy it. Of course, now with no little ones to look after, I can knit up a storm and knit all day if I want to, or all night if the mood strikes.
Enjoy!
DJ in SW MI
November 6, 2006 at 11:10 pm
Debi Barry
Wishing you a very happy birthday year! I really enjoy your site. Your spinning wheels are just beautiful as are your little girls! Sometimes it is hard to get older ( just turned 47) because you start to think of how little time there is left. It causes you to live each moment to the fullest and make the most of each day. I am glad to have discovered all the fiber arts and my life is so much fuller because of spinning & knitting.
November 6, 2006 at 11:38 pm
Melanie
Well, when I turned 16, I didn’t think it meant much at all. But now that I’m halfway through this year, I tell you, I’m an old lady now. I’ve started to say “the other day” about things that happened 3 months ago. Now, this isn’t too bad as I know some people who say “the other day” about things that happened 2 years ago, but still. In the mornings I have to have a longer-than-usual hot shower so that I can thaw and function. It is moving into winter, but I think it shows that I’m no longer a spring chicken. I’ve also started blanking out, someone can ask me something and I just won’t hear them. There is the off chance that everyone is saying that they asked me when they actually didn’t, just to drive me crazy but…I tell you, if sixteen is like this, will I be gray-haired next year?
November 7, 2006 at 12:33 am
Stephanie
When my birthday rolls around I think of the things I’ve accomplished in the last year, those that I have grown closer to and those I have grown further from – I also reflect on how I want to shape the next year of my life
November 7, 2006 at 4:32 am
Sue Clover
I’ve learned to look on each birthday as a time to reflect on the enriching experiences I have had in the past year, and to continue the marvelous exercise of growth for the future. This year i have learned grief at its deepest level, joy (again), spinning, how to knit cables w/o a cable needle, how the corgi gets up onto the kitchen counters, wonder all over again, and have again been reminded that change is HARD but good. I am growing because of all these things. Opportunities loom new every year, this year they may include changing careers, moving to a new place, training the darn dog to stay OFF the kitchen counters, and greater control of the wheel. Any or noe of these things may happen, but they are opportunities to be explored or faced as they arise, each an opportunitiy to create NEW memories to be recalled on my ENXT birthday!
November 7, 2006 at 7:52 am
Lani Sykes
I turned 55 the middle of October. I’m still shy about telling my age, but I do let folks know that I am a “double digit,” and they can take it from there. Yesterday we went to IHOP and I ordered my first senior deal ever. I was just a little disappointed that the waiter didn’t ask for my ID.
I look back at the year and smile when I remember that my daughter graduated from college with a Spanish degree, however, she’s currently using it to talk to the hamsters at Pet Smart (all that education. . .). As well, she’s still young. The good thing that will happen this year is that in December, I will be graduating with a Bachelor of Science in E-Business Management. It’s taken me this long and five different colleges to finally finish my degree. I’ve worked for over 2.5 years to get this done by taking a full load of classes (minimum of 12 credits every term), taking care of my family, working full time and raising 50+ head of livestock.
I am blessed with the energy to do all this, but it has meant that I’ve had to give up the things I love to do best–spinning, weaving, knitting, crocheting and beading. I just wasn’t able to carry on with my fiber pursuits while doing everything else. However, come December, I’ll be back at it full tilt. I’m even thinking of giving myself a sock knitting machine as a graduation gift, but then that means I’ll have to spin more sock yarn–darn
Thanks for giving me this opportunity to reflect.
November 7, 2006 at 5:19 pm
Necia
Last year on my birthday my mother went into the hospital and never came out. Previously a birthday to me, meant to party because I was grown. I would party all week, shot sometimes all month in the spirit of living to see another year. However, since last year my birthday means so much more to me. Now it means another day that I take without talking to or seeing my mother. It’s all the more special to me, because the very day that she gifted me life, her’s was taken away. Now on THAT day, I try to celebrate it by doing something for the both of us. I give thanks to her (can’t forget my dad), and slowly but surely I’m trying to reclaim the day and fill it with happiness instead of grief. My mom always was crafty, so with every craft venture I take on I feel that much closer to her, and I can sense her presence and almost see her smile. Wow, sorry for clogging your comment board up. Happy Belated Birthday.
November 7, 2006 at 10:37 pm
heatherly
when i was turning 29, i cried b/c i was almost 30. 30 was spent at the ER waiting 9 hrs for my daughter to have sts in the palm of her hand. 31 was soo much better! i like the hints of grey showing up in my hair. i am ready to be a lil more adult. having a hubby who is 6 1/2 yrs older…my age is nothing in comparison!
November 8, 2006 at 4:09 am
anne
it’s true what they say—every year life gets better! my 40s have been so great, i amd really looking forward to my 50s!
November 8, 2006 at 8:56 am
Chris Cerutti
I turn 52 next week. Turning 50 was sort of fun. 51 was no big deal. For some reason I can’t believe I’m turning 52! It just doesn’t seem possible. Anyway, physically getting older sucks. I read somewhere that after age 40 something always hurts. That seems generally true for me. But otherwise getting older is a blast. I feel more and more free to be myself and not follow the rules each year.
November 8, 2006 at 8:20 pm
aija
I just turned 29 and I couldn’t be more excited about it. I’m ata point in my life that I am actually happy about everything– my young son, my outlook on who I am and what I look like (more to the point, that I don’t *hate* myself as much as I used to, which has a lot to do with the advancing years than anything else I can figure.) I’m counting down to thirty, even though some women choose to “stop the clock” at the age I just turned
Happy belated BD to you & yours 
November 9, 2006 at 1:04 am
Tal
This yaer I turned 28. Actually just last week. Sometimes it makes me feel sad that I am ALREADY this old. I see athletes, musicians, professionals… that have success before 25 and it makes me feel like I have not done anything with my life. Well not this year. I have beautiful daughter who make my everyday seem worth being in my skin, no matter how old I’m getting. Happy birthday to all those that share November.
November 10, 2006 at 6:37 am
Autumn
A Year older. My friend said “well you should be wiser, but you still dating that lame guy.” To which I grinned (that is why we have friends right?). A year older it means seeing a new soul speak for the first time, and loosing an old friend. Saying goodbye to a love. Or making a choice that will forever alter the plan of my life.
My birthday is my “New Years”. At midnight I sit and think about where I have been and how far I have come. I keep a box of photos that I only look at once a year. Those photos of being an awkward child, of people dead, of old lovers and of children ever growing. To measure my life’s growth I need to open myself up once a year and mourn the passing of that year and the lessons I have learned.
This helps me to embrace the coming year, and walk away from the past. I put the box away and keep the years and lesson’s in my heart. My birthday was lonely ever since my first year of college, until two years ago when my niece was born (on my birthday). Now each year I get older a new little one grows older too (it isn’t quite as lonely) and develops the ability to learn life’s lessons on her own. Happy Birthday. I love reading your blog and the pictures of your family.
November 10, 2006 at 3:21 pm
Sandy
A birthday means a year has past of wonderful memories, and another year is starting to make wonderful memories. As I get older, those are very precious things. Included in the things that I treasure are my fiber friends and the many times that we get together to spin, weave, knit and make bobbin lace. I also treasure the people that I *meet* through fiber lists on the internet. We are all growing older together and learning from each other along the way. May we all have many years to celebrate!
November 10, 2006 at 5:19 pm
Cathy D
Many friends and family look back at the finished year; I prefer to visualize the coming year as full of promise and adventure. Each year brings so much change, good, bad, happy and sad, taking a few moments of introspection to blend the new with the old seems as natural as packing a bag for a trip.
November 10, 2006 at 9:01 pm
Chelsea
I think about how fast the year has gone and how much I have changed- most of it in what I do. This last year brought spinning, and fiber craze in and sewing sort of out. I love to think about how much my kids have learned and how much they have taught me. My older daughter also just turned 3 on Sep 14th (just two weeks after I turned 29) and it amazes every day how much she changes and grows. My 17mo old might as well be 3 since she learns everything from her big sis. I also have a sone who just turned 10 on the 9th- time goes so fast. I always think about how many things I’ve done and and wonder and look forward to what will come next- it’s exciting and I know there are hard times and wonderful times yet to come.
November 11, 2006 at 1:22 am
Jennifer
I feel that every birthday that goes by has taught me something more about myself. With each increasing year I’ve become more knowledgable. I can’t wait until I’m 100
I’ll be a genius! Obviously not today as I just had to think how to spell that 
I also feel that you’re not a year older on your birthday as everyone is getting older each day.
Happy Birthday to you and you daughter!
Take care,
Jen in VT
contentedbutterfly@yahoo.com
November 11, 2006 at 7:18 am
Dianna
Happy birthday!
For myself, the actual anniversary day of my birth is not so important. Granted, I wish I were at the weight I was in my early twenties, and had the health I enjoyed even until the last few years, but I would not trade the life experience and the knowledge I’ve gained through living for all the youth in the world! My birthday isn’t a magical time where suddenly my life lurches forward – my life evolves and alters its course usually subtlely, sometimes dramatically in a given moment, but those moments have not been on my birthdays….there are other days upon which I am more reflective and take inventory of the past year’s events – usually aroung the holidays.