Beyond Grateful.
This time last year I had a job – so I spent my birthday shopping for clothes for the first time ever. A few weeks later I got laid off. The End.
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I have written and re-written this entry 100 times. Some of the drafts I got too wrapped up in missing my Dad. Other drafts focused too much on how the last year made me a Stay At Home Mom and how that is like having the best job in the world: Doing work I adore. But for the shittiest boss on the planet because no one pays me or ever gives me time off. One or two drafts simply discussed how I’m disappointed that I never finished losing the weight I mentioned wanting to lose on my last birthday. Another draft focused entirely on new things I’ve learned this year (Installing faucets and light fixtures! Baking! Cutting my own hair!) and what I’d like to learn in the next year. Another focused on how I seemed to go a whole year without actually achieving any of my spiritual goals for the year.
I don’t know, though. None of them really did it for me in terms of a Birthday Entry. I don’t really know what a Birthday Entry is supposed to contain but I kept feeling like I was missing something somehow. Some of them were too depressing. Others too falsely joyful. Some too realistically joyful and therefore annoying. Nothing felt right.
So, instead? I’m just going to say this: I’m far too blessed as I greet age 35. I still struggle with feeling as though I deserve any of the good in my life. I just know that I sometimes look around me and start to cry because I would have never asked for this life that I’m living because it would have seemed too selfish of a life to ask for. I’m blessed beyond which I can ever explain. I am thankfully for all the last 12 months have brought me, and if my life just stays stagnant over the next year? I’ll be just as grateful at 36 as I am today.
Happy birthday! I hope this year gives you all the hope, happiness, joy, and love you deserve.
Simply beautiful.
A Very Happy Birthday To You!
Happy Birthday. You deserve every single bit of happiness. I hope your day is full of all your favorite things.
Happy birthday!! I hope it’s a wonderful day.
Happy birthday, Miss Zoot! I hope you have an ab fab birthday!
Happy Birthday. Glad you are in such a good place.
Happy Birthday! What a perfect post – my favorite of all of your proposed posts. And beautiful pictures as well. I love the kiss!
Happy Birthday! You have landed a pretty sweet gig, mama.
Happy Birthday! I hope this is a wonderful day and the start of the best year yet for you and your sweet family!!
Happy birthday, lovely lady!
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!!! You deserve everything you have – don’t sell yourself short!!! You are a fantastic mother, wife and friend – you have changed my life by being in it for the better!!! Hope this day and the next 364 are beyond full!!! Love you!!!!!!!
love this! and i love you! happy birthday, lady!
happy birthday. you totally deserve the life you have and more. thank you so much for what you have given me in the last 5 years. I’m so grateful to have stumbled upon your website once upon a time because it has changed my life.
xo
I hope that you and your beautiful self have a fabulous birthday! You really do deserves it all.
Happy Birthday! I hope it’s a great one!
Happy birthday, Kim!
I am grateful that you share your writing with all of us.
Happy Birthday Miss Zoot! Great pics!
Happy Birthday, Kim! I hope you have a great day
Happy Birthday to one of my favourite bloggers and someone I consider to be one of the better people on this planet. You are seriously fortunate and you deserve every bit of it!
This made my heart go a little gooey
Happy birthday, Kim. You deserve all sorts of good things <3
Happy Birthday! Embrace it all and know you deserve all the good in your life.
What a sweet testament to embracing the moment and living life to the fullest. Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday! Hope you have a wonderful 35th year.
Aw, happy birthday Zoot! I hope you continue to be blessed in the coming year!
Happy birthday!!~~May you receive all the many more blessings u deserve ^^ =D
Happy Birthday!!!
Happy Birthday!
happy birthday!