Thank God for My 68th Birthday

February 23, 1950, I decided to make my first
appearance into this world, and well, I'm still here!
In fact the hospital in which I was born still stands.

I had a wonderful birthday today. Cindy had called
earlier during the week to ask where I wanted to
eat. She told me about a new Chinese restaurant
which just opened up and is really good and the atmosphere
is really nice. So, I agreed. Lets try it.
She reserved a table for 12:00 noon, cause since it is
new she says it really gets packed quickly. So, we all
get there and there is this big sign on the door.
'Sorry for the inconvenience, but our power has gone
out. Trying to fix problem soon!'

Alrighty then. So what to do now. They left it up to me
since I was the one having the birthday. It didn't take
long, cause we were all starving. We dined at another
Chinese place that was super great.
At times like this I feel bad that my kids don't live
closer together so we can all celebrate our birthdays'
together, but, hey, that's life.

Dad and I spent the rest of the afternoon in Abilene,
since we had quite a large list of things we had to do.
Just spending the afternoon together was fun. As you
well know by now, I hate to shop! Dad on the other
hand, loves it! So, each time we stopped somewhere,
or at the mall, I stayed in the car, took out my reading
material and enjoyed the hell out of myself just reading.
Weird Huh? I'm sure Dad was having a great time
shopping cause I wasn't around nagging him to hurry.

We finally made it home about 7pm. Got into my p.j.'s
then started getting unexpected company. My sister,
Helen came by with the most beautiful candy bouquet.!
I'd never seen anything so pretty. It had all different
kinds of finger size candy bars, and was decorated beautiful.
Joey and his wife, Cassie and the boys gave me the
most beautiful cross, and seems to be made out of adobe.
Something really different. And of course, Dad presented
me with two dozen beautiful yellow roses! ( my favorite)
Later during the evening had calls from the rest of the family
members, including Tommy, from San Antonio.
He's my favorite brother-in-law from San Antonio. Shush,
Shush, don't tell the other members of Dads' family!
I thank God for a wonderful and Blessed Day.