Hard to believe...when did I get old enough to be 38??

I was so busy this weekend that I didn't really have time to think about what really was happening...growing another year older.  It is crazy for me to think about being my age...I honestly do not feel like it is possible.  ha

I will just go ahead and say, it was really tough...NOT getting that birthday card in the mailbox with my birthday money this year from MamaBill.  That may not sound the way I intend for it to come across, but there are just those little things that happen in our lives that no one else would even think is a big deal, probably.  I must admit...I loved it because sometimes it just feels good to still be a kid!  

If you know anything about me...you know I love getting real mail.  I love pretty, handwritten note cards from the mailbox.  I love personalized note cards and stationery sets...address labels and stickers...I especially like the ones that say MY NAME!  (I get this from my mother.) 

I love looking at another person's penmanship...you get a feel of their hands writing to you as you read.  The love and thought going into the words on paper...and sometimes very telling of a grandmother's unsteady hand from hard-work over the years.  Grandmother and MamaBill always wrote in cursive.  DaddyDoyle in Capital letters...but he and MamaBill were lefties.  My mother and aunts mostly print their words in very neat print.  My Aunt Ann underlines everything in her cards.  (this will only be funny to my family)  My siblings all write small and very neat. 

Maybe no one even thinks about these things...but I do.

All of this being said, I am amazed by all the Happy Birthday wishes from friends and family.  SOOO many happy notes and posts on Facebook...phone calls...text messages...and actual cards through the US MAIL from friends...and the yummiest chocolate pie you could ever put in your mouth from Amy and Jeremy Douglas:)  I even got a new RED KitchenAid mixer from my husband!  woohoo! 

I am reminded of how much I am loved and also about happy things that made my birthday special before I turned thirty-eight. 

This is a new year.  My hope for this year is to do a better job of telling people in my life how much I love them.  Thanks for loving me, friends!  It was a great birthday:)