My Birthday

Cason has picked me flowers since he was a baby. Everytime he picks one I am reminded of his love and thoughtfulness. He got me these flowers and took me out (his preschool's potluck happened to be the night before my bday) to a nice potluck dinner, in which he told everyone there that this (the potluck dinner) was his special treat to me on my birthday. How cute. They also made me cupcakes. Luder bought me a cell that I wanted and roses and my fam came and took me out to dinner and babysat for us. It was a pretty good one.

As my birhday came around this year I couldn't help but retrospectively analyze what I have learned and realized through living on this earth.

I have learned that:
1.cliche's are cliche's because they are true
2.perfectionists are miserable, letting go is liberating
3.i am blessed to have Luder (these are not in order of importance people)
4.there are some things that mean more to me than I ever imagined-
God, country, family
5.voting is a privilage that I take very seriously
6.the older I get the more grateful I am for loving, hardworking parents who have stayed together
7.giving people the benefit of the doubt is the best thing
8.taking care of our bodies is important, exercise makes me feel good
9.good Old Abraham Lincoln was right, "People are about as happy as they make their minds up to be."
10.friends are a brightspot in my life
11.a lot of things people stress over don't matter, a lot of things that people don't care about matter
12.Time goes too fast, if I stopped to think about it, I would get too sad
13.Everyone has a "story" it is what you do with your story that is really all that matters
14.doing things for other people makes me feel good
15.babysitters and datenights are neccessary
16.sleep deprivation makes people crazy, makes people do crazy things
17.children are always on a higher intellectual level than you think
18.i am SO PROUD TO BE A SOUTHERN WOMAN
19.when people act weird, it is about them
20.i need to go "home" ever so often....ahhh The Shenandoah Valley
21.i need GNO's (Girl's Night Out)
22.there has to be a balance in just about everything in life
23.i love to be outside, the changes in the seasons and holidays-stressfree style
24.being a mother can be very embarrassing (temper tantrums in public)-not worrying about it is the way to go
25.i really do want to be more like Jesus Christ, even though I will try the rest of my life, I will fall short and he will make up the rest
26.bad things happen to good people and it doesn't mean that they are being punished by Heavenly Father
27.my finite mind cannot begin to understand Heavenly Father's infinite wisdom
28.Nan was right
29.selfish people get on my nerves
30.Thirty scares me
31.it is important to flip the world the bird sometimes, figuratively, not literally