Happy Birthday, Maryanne

wandaredhead

16 years ago

Flamingo dances

and monkeys smiles

for your birthday.

ENJOY!!

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jazmynsmom
16 years ago
Wow, Wanda! Monkey smiles from the future! (Cupcakes + reg Nilla Wafers + mini Nilla wafers + frosting?) I digress...

Happy birthday, Maryanne! I wish you happy grillin' in the coming year!
andie_rathbone
16 years ago
Happy birthday! I hope you have a great one.
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meldy_nva
16 years ago
May all your traffic lights be green, and parking places available, and may you be the first when standing in line.

Happy birthday!
lilod
16 years ago
Happy Birthday Maryanne and many, many more!
treehouse
16 years ago
Happy day to you.
Janis_G
16 years ago
Happy Birthday! sweet friend!
Please check in and let us know how you are.
You are missed!

May your wine bottle always be full. :0)
User
16 years ago
Happy Birthday, we will all now go to Wanda's for cup cakes. See you there. Yum.
wandaredhead
Original Author
16 years ago
Excuse us, please.

jaz,
You've got it all right except there are no mini-wafers.
The ears are regular wafers broke in half.
They are stuck in the sides to look like they are sticking up/out.

Now, back to Happy Birthday, Maryanne!!
rob333 (zone 7b)
16 years ago
Happy Birthday! Ask your little feller gives you hugs and kisses, then tell you they're from me. I know you don't like them, but I bet you'd take them from your youngin'. That's how I'd sneak them to you :)
wandaredhead
Original Author
16 years ago
rob,
LOL.
We'll sneak another Happy Birthday hug in.

{{gwi:153491}}
anneliese_32
16 years ago
Happy Birthday and all the best.

Anneliese
gandle
16 years ago
Another wish for a good one.
mwoods
16 years ago
Hope you've had a good Maryanne. I wish you'd come back and fill us in on what you've been doing. You've been gone so long I've lost track.
maryanne_nc
16 years ago
Before I say "thank you", I want to apologize for being such a putz lately, not posting, and then showing up on my birthday. I know it's rude of me, but I just want to tell y'all how much it means to me to be remembered. Days like today can be hard when you can't spend them with the people you want to...your child, your parent, someone (anyone) who cares. So, thank you for the wishes, thank you for remembering, and mostly, thank you for caring!

To say I've been busy is an understatement. Last year, I helped deploy over 60,000 Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines, on top of running my normal operations, and chalked up over 500 hours of overtime. This year has been tough so far since my one and only remaining employee jumped ship on me in December and took a job in Korea. On top of the normal deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq, I'm now sending folks to places like the Horn of Africa, South America, and points in between as well as re-equipping units who have just returned. Stress has become a normal facet of life, but I'm proud to say that I've still managed to ward off the first grey hair! Of course, the payback is a few more character lines on my face and dark circles under my eyes from lots of sleepless nights. But I won't complain, it's a small price to pay compared to the ultimate sacrifice our military makes. I wish I could explain the emotions that wash over me when my phone rings in the middle of the night and it's a Soldier who just needed to hear a voice from home, or it's a Commander who is calling to say thanks for helping him get gear after his convoy was hit by enemy fire, but there are no words that adequately describe it. I've often wondered why I was put on this earth, what my purpose for being was, and now I know. It's to make a difference in another's life any way I can. So, when I do have down time, I'm busy baking and packing care boxes, or writing long letters, or listening to nervous soldiers talk.

I spent my birthday doing the things that make me happy...spending time in the bookstore, baking banana bread to ship overseas, baking cookies for a friend who just returned from a deployment in Colombia, SA (where the work he did was paramount on the release of the hostages held by the FARC) who drove 600 miles from an airport in TN to wish me a Happy Birthday before he makes the 800 mile trip back to his home base in FL tomorrow, hanging out for an hour with my DS (who is now 15 yo, 6 ft tall and weighing in at an offensive guard's weight of 203), digging in the dirt, and just being thankful for being able to be part of this life.

Thanks, again, everyone for being part of this special day!

Maryanne
mawheel
16 years ago
Happy Belated Birthday -- and a special thank you for the incredible job you're doing.

Happy Birthday, Maryanne

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