Birthday Appreciation

How about this shirt? You know where that came from.


I am sure by now most of you are tired of hearing about my 80th birthday. If you will bear with me just one more time, I promise this will be the end.

Reaching 80 has been the highlight of my long life. All the attention and activities has blown my mind and overwhelmed me. I am not sure I will ever be the same again.

My special day celebration was small and simple. The way I wanted it. My family and I had a great fun day on Sunday, August 23. At my request, I did not have a big, fancy cake with 80 candles. We would have burned the house down. Instead of the birthday cake, I enjoyed a good old fashion blackberry cobbler as I requested. I am really not a fancy, party person. I derive great pleasure from the simple things of life.

I never in my wildest dreams thought I would receive 59 great happy birthday comments on my post. I am truly honored you would take the time for this. I cannot acknowledge each of you individually. I do want you to know that it was greatly appreciated more than I can ever tell you. The response to all this has been unbelievable. It really means a lot to me.

As a rule, in the past, I receive around 25 to 30 cards from family and friends. Well this year, my niece, known to you as Coloradolady, decides it would be nice if I could receive at least 80. Unknown to my knowledge, she informed all her friends in blog land what she would like to happen. As a result of her actions, I received one e-card and 21 of the nicest cards and surprises from fellow blog friends. Some of these were handmade and took a lot of time. The card that came the longest distance was from Sweden. All of them were so pretty and expressed such kind words. I want to personally say to each of your that participated in the card mailing, it truly touched me.

On top of that my sister got involved. She spreads the word to all her friends and church members. As a result of her actions,and other family and friends, I received a total of 85 cards. This is the best I could do trying to get a picture of all the cards. Besides the cards, I received four e-cards on the computer. These are the same cards, just trying a different location.



These cards came after I had made the ones above. The bottom three are from blog friends.


At this point in my life, there is not much I need or want. As a result of that, my son and his wife designed an 80 and covered it in 80 dollar lotto scratch off tickets. What a shock that was! I only scratch off a few each day. So far, I have not gotten rich, but have sure had a lot of fun scratching.

Besides that, I received several nice gift cards for various eating places. Also, great American Airline gift cards which I plan to use in October. But the one that took the cake, was one to Goodwill. I have never received one from there. My sister said it was to buy more things for my blog. A variety of other gifts as well as numerous phone calls. All in all, you might say I had a birthday like no other. A video was made of some of the festivities. It is said laughter is good for the soul. Believe me there are several of us with much better souls.


I am sure to get mentioned in the BlogHer sidebar would not be a big deal to you. I was very pleased that it had been read and featured. My first time, and another nice surprise.

To top off the evening of my birthday, my son and his wife took me to a nice place for dinner that I had never been. We had a great meal, nice and quiet, such a pleasant way to end days of a wild birthday celebration.

How many people do you know that have received 111 greeting cards for their birthday? I assure you, it has broken any record I know of. Once again, thanks to everyone that had a part of my 80th birthday celebration. You made it very special and I will never forget it. Your kindness and thoughtfulness was above and beyond all expectations.


Surrounded by lovely flowers and people, what a way to celebrate being 80.