Great belated birthday wishes to all of you. I hope that you had a really fine time with friends and loved relatives. Good wishes also for each day of the coming year - may it bring some interesting things, a few challennges and many blessings. ole joyful

Thank you all very, very much! I'm 51 today, and loving it. Woody's friend came over and brought me irises and a card and then he hinted he wanted to know if I was 43 or something like that. He went down to 41! I like him more today than I ever have! lol I had fun sewing today, and tonight Woody is preparing a shrimp scampi over spaghetti squash dinner, I can't wait. And he went to a bakery and brought home a cream puff and a tart for us. Hooboy, the cream puff was HUGE. We ate it because we didn't want it to get soggy. Yeah, that's why we ate it! lol It was really good. Happy Birthday to Gr8tful, too! Thanks again, everyone. I appreciate you all!

thanks everyone. it has been a great day so far, and i am expecting my parents to come by for a visit later. janemarie5, glad to have a "birthday buddy". anette

I hope that all of you have really great birthday ... one that you'll remember for a long time. If there may have been some distance, or bad feelings that may have developed with some family members of friends, I hope that they'll take some initiative to re-establish a better, closer relationship - that'd be a really great birthday gift. Enjoy each day as it comes ... who knows how many more there'll be? Come and share some of your good ideas, recipes, wisdom, funny stories ... or whatever. ole joyful