What the… ?!?!?

I turned the dreaded 40 last week. And basically it was sort of a suck-day. It wasn’t so much about getting older, but more about feeling inconsequential. My day was just a typical Thursday, like any other day. We didn’t celebrate my birthday at work like we do for everyone else. And that evening, I just went to dinner with the family. Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t like everyone forgot. It just didn’t feel like the momentous birthday I had anticipated.

Well, all of that changed on Saturday. I spent the day working at the office, then drove Boog around trying to find an apartment for her return to Austin. She was texting “Sam” all day and planned to go out with him that evening. I knew Hubs had something planned, but honestly thought it would be a normal date-night-dinner-and-a-movie.

Boog and I arrived back at home and walked into the house… and a bunch of my friends and family shouted “SURPRISE!” I was literally stunned. I even shed a tear or two.

Apparently, my dear Hubs had planned a party for me all along. It was an amazing surprise! Boog wasn’t texting “Sam,” she was texting Hubs about our ETA. She is quite the little liar… I’m so proud. Apparently Hubs’ surprise went off without a hitch. I had no idea and was truly in the dark.

It was a lot of fun! It feels so good to realize that I’m NOT inconsequential… to my family or my friends. Seems I really do matter! Nice.

I’m Old Today

Happy birthday to ME!

I’m forty today, which seems pretty old when you weren’t forty before.

I suppose it’s time for me to turn in my Blackberry for a Jitterbug phone. And perhaps I’ll need to pick up a walker with the little tennis balls on the feet. I even need to start thinking about which home I want to spend my last days in.

Ugh… better get moving… time is running out.

Caffeination Appreciation

Hubs and I have our regular little routine in the morning. He wakes the girls up while I’m in the shower. I get them ready while he’s in the shower. I fix the girls’ hair while he feeds the animals. And then he takes the girls to daycare, while I finish getting ready.

When I’m all ready to go, I head to the kitchen to find this on the counter:

Every morning, my dear Hubs makes me two cups of coffee to-go. It’s made just as I like it. No flavored coffee. No flavored creamer. It’s a great start to my day, every single day.

Now you must understand… he doesn’t do this because he loves me so much; he doesn’t do this because he makes the best coffee in the world; he doesn’t do to this to make sure I make it work on time. He does this to avoid me spending money at Starbucks. Well, that AND the fact that I’m probably much easier to deal with after my cup o’ Joe. A girl needs her caffeine in the morning… no matter how much it costs.

I just wanted to take the time to say thank you to Hubs. Thanks for the coffee, and thanks for saving us money. Lord knows I don’t have the strength to avoid giving our money to Starbucks.

Children of Earth

We spent the past weekend in the country. Gamma has several acres about a hour outside of Austin. We worked hard ran electricity and water to a new building that Gamma recently had built. So now, we have water!

The girls stripped down to their bobbies (Boog-speech for panties) and played in the newly piped in water. Pretty soon, they were playing in the mud. Who needs a pool?!?!

It was so funny watching them get dirty. They seemed to look up time to time to make sure they weren’t going to get in trouble. And when Mommy gave them the green light, they went crazy in the mud! They had a great time, until they had to get cleaned up. And I just had to share the picture.