Happy Birthday to me!

 
I'll save you the counting...there are 43 and I'm proud of every one!
Thank you, everyone, for contributing to my very happy life!

Abbie has taken some lessons on hand quilting from my mom and gave me the pieces she's sewn and asked if we could finish it together and make a pillow for my bed. I was SO excited! It's a wonderful thing to learn a skill from your children.
Thanks, Abbie

Some things you don't get to plan and how you'll feel on your birthday is one of them. Unfortunately, my birthday came at the end of a very difficult "fibro" week. My sweet Claire was so concerned about me feeling celebrated. She even texted several of her friends and had them stop by to wish me a happy day.

She was photo shooting all through the yummy dinner Lane made for me and kept telling me to smile. Most of the pictures are appropriately dorky but this one won. After mixing all the colors of frosting from my piece of cake (I LOVE frosting but not food coloring...it's just wrong!) I made a smiley face for her...just not on my face.