Yet Another Happy Day?

The debate is still out on that. On this very day, now a very long time ago, I was born!
It's not that I hate birthdays, I use to love them. I just don't want to have THIS birthday. This is the age that I remember thinking as a teenager-when reading obituaries-one of my morbid quirks-that if a person had lived to this age, then he or she had lived a pretty long life! Good gravy, what was I thinking??
So my face book, my cousin's blog, my email, my phone calls are sending me birthday wishes. I am so blessed to be surrounded by people that despite my shortcomings, love me anyway.
Even ALL my children (less Alex of course!) wished me a Happy B-day this morning. (I think James really reminded them before he left because he feels bad he's at work on my "special" day!)
What does my "special" day consist of?
#1 I slept in to 6:45am....whootwhoo...lot's nicer than 5 am
#2 I'm waiting for Murray City to come make their final inspection of our kitchen. (We're only 120 days past our final...yikes!)
#3 I'm going to go get my hair cut and colored-which is my way of not letting the world know exactly how old I am based on my silvery roots!
#4 I'm going to school lunch with Rylee. She has made special arrangements with the lunch room monitor to sing happy birthday to me and I get to wear a crown and everything! I will take pictures so check back later!
#5 My sister called to invite me to lunch after my commitment to go with Rylee and now SHE is going to go to school lunch with me!
#6 My Mom & Dad are taking me out to dinner despite my protest of "let's not do anything and just forget about it!"
#7 And sometime today I"ll finish the laundry, hopefully clean up my house a bit, arrange house showings for tomorrow and get showered and dressed....but it's my birthday so all those things are pretty much optional!

11:00 am update. So the Murray City Inspector just came and wished me a Happy Birthday. I couldn't figure out how he knew it was my birthday until he told me something was on my garage.....


I found out that this was done by my good friend Jan Boulley who will be turning the same horrible age as me in six months. (She loves to remind me that I'm older!) Just wait until her birthday!

And then I logged in to see if Snezhana was online and guess what? It's her birthday today too!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SNEZHANA!
(I knew there was something special about her!)
And my Alex also wished me Happy Birthday.
мама с Днем Рождения!!!
So now I have been wished Happy Birthday by ALL my children!

Here we are eating school lunch!

Yum, cheese pizza....


4:00pm update: I lucked out and didn't get a crown but I did get a rousing rendition of Happy Birthday. In hindsight I couldn't think of a better place to eat lunch. No, not because of the food but because I've been substituting there I felt like a celebrity! Walking into the lunchroom, I got at least twenty "Hi, Mrs. Richhart!" about that many waves and even a few hugs! And I ate lunch with some of my most favorite people in the world!
Afterwards my sister took me to my favorite bakery and bought me my favorite mint-draping-cake and we sat down and ate it right out of the container!