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LeeAnna asks

in honor of my birthday coming up:

How do you celebrate your birthday? Did you grow up with parties? Home made cake or store bought? Theme parties? Did you share a birthday with someone special to you? Do you give yourself a gift each year? Do you reevaluate the year somehow?

Fun questions!  I had a few parties while growing up.  Certainly, not every birthday was a big celebration.  The year Mom made her disgusting stew for my birthday is memorable!  Ugh!!!  Mostly Mom baked our cakes.  Her spice cake was my favourite.  Now we have store-bought cakes as I am not a baker.  For a while, I would get cupcakes so everyone could have their favourite flavour.  There were no theme parties for me.  I don't think that was a thing when I was growing up.  I did theme parties for my sons though.  I wonder if they remember them.  I do have photos though.

I usually treat myself to some sort of art supply for my birthday.  Not that I need more art supplies but I enjoy them and use them.  I might add I don't need to have a birthday to treat myself to some art supplies either!  

We don't make a big fuss about birthdays around here.  If I want a big fuss then I have to do it myself and even then...  It is a bit hard when one of my love languages is gifts.  I just try to be grateful for the small things.

I am grateful for crabapple trees right now.  There is a street lined with them in my neighbourhood.  Oh so pretty!  Even the petals on the road look beautiful to me.  I try to find beauty in unlikely places.  

I like the NY Times Spelling Bee game right now.  I find it more challenging and interesting than Wordle.  It is a bit more time-consuming but good for the brain.

I love the poet David Whyte.  I recently heard him on a podcast and oh my!  I want to get one of his books.  I can picture myself reading it while soaking up some sun on my deck.