Birthday Girl

Happy Birthday to me,

Happy Birthday to me,

Happy Birthday dear Christy,

Happy Birthday to ME!

Anyone that knows me at all knows how much I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE my birthday. It is a day I'm always ready to celebrate. I have always looked at my birthday as a blessing from God, another year that he has given me with family and friends. I would celebrate it all month if I could talk everyone into it. I usually do end up squeezing a good week or so out of it. Well, today is my 40th. Everyone has asked me all year long if I would be as excited about this birthday as I am all the rest and I kept assuring them I would be and guess what??? I was right, turning 40 hasn't bothered me one bit. I truly believe it's just a number. I'm as old as I act and feel. I DON'T feel forty and I sure don't act it.

I can not believe that I have lived "40" wonderful years. Where on earth have the years gone? I can remember sitting at Stephanie Bartlett's house with she and John Marsh, watching the Flintstones waiting for our drive into Kindergarten, all the fun Jeff and I had playing together as kids, the day that I entered Marshall High School as a scared, little freshmen girl, the day I met Mike, the day we got married, college graduation, getting my teaching job, giving birth to 3 beautiful little girls (thankfully not all at once), the day we bought our first house, my 21st birthday, my 30th birthday....the memories go on and on and all of them seem like just yesterday.

I have had a very blessed 40 years. My birthday wish is that I have another 40 years that are as happy and healthy as my past 40.

To anyone that is reading this, I'm sure that you have played some part in enriching my life and for that I thank you.

I'm off to do some more celebrating!

SMILE, it's my birthday!