32 Years

Well, I celebrated my 32nd birthday on Sunday. The celebration started Saturday night around 9:30pm.  Three of the girls from the youth group came over to the house and brought some wonderfully nice cards and a diet coke--one of my favorite splurging drinks.  I have spent the last few months getting to know them, and they haven't spent a lot of time at our house.  I was really sad when school started because I knew they wouldn't be dropping by in the middle of the day. 

On Sunday,Josiah and Sophie gave me a wonderful present--they slept until almost 7:30am!!!   Josiah and Sophie gave me some sweet birthday cards that they picked out--OK, Josiah picked out Sophie's card, too.  Chris gave me a very nice card, too.  We got up and started getting ready for church.  We didn't have Sunday school, so it was a relaxing morning as we got ready.  We headed to McDonald's for breakfast, so I wouldn't have to make breakfast--it's the little things that I appreciate.  We went to church and enjoyed our time as a family.  We came home, fed the kids lunch and then rested for a little while.  The girls came over to drop off a cake that one of them made.  Josiah and I would eat it for breakfast a couple of days later.  It was one of those morning where I didn't want cereal, but didn't want to make some hot, so what else do you do?  Eat CAKE!!!   Josiah thought it was awesome, and I enjoyed not being the stuffy Mom. 

Sunday evening, some of our good friend here in NoVa, came over to watch the kids, so Chris and I could go out to dinner.  Chris took me to a Japanese restaurant so we could have Habachi.  It was DELICIOUS!!  We enjoyed having dinner and not having to feed or cut up another person's meal.      We stopped at the grocery store on the way home and picked up a cake.  Our friends, John and Jen, stayed and had some cake with us.  

On Tuesday, some of the ladies from our Home Fellowship Group, took me out to dinner for my birthday and then we went and some Blizzards from DQ.  It was great to be able to go out with the ladies for a couple of hours.  I totally enjoyed carrying a purse instead of a diaper bag and not having some kind of stain on me!! 

I got quite a bit of gift cards and birthday money, so I will be going on a mini shopping spree to find some new clothes.  It's been a couple of years since I got some new clothes--not including maternity clothes.  I look forward to going and get some new things--it's so easy to not spend as much time getting ready, so maybe this will inspire me. 

As you can see, I had a great birthday.  I look forward to seeing how God is going to grow me this coming year