Waiting for Company

 

Waiting for people to come

to the party

and talking to

well wishers by phone.

 

Happy Birthday Gary.

 

Happy start to a wonderful

new year.

Happy Birthday Gary

 

 

Happy Birthday to Gary

 

May you celebrate well

 

and be well celebrated.

 

May the rain stay away

 

from your party.

 

May you feel

 

well loved.

April is Birthday Month

 

 

April is Birthday Month

April is a month of birthdays in our family.   There are fourteen in all: sisters, sons, grand-daughters, grandsons, nephews and dear friends, including a first husband.

We don’t celebrate with parties, gifts, cards and cake like we once would have done, before our family expanded.  The number of family and friends expanded as we grew older, retired and began to manage on a smaller income.  The thoughts, good wishes and love are still there, though the money for gifts and parties is not.  Neither is the energy.

Fourteen birthdays in a thirty-day month would mean that nearly every day a party would be organized, held or recovered from in April.  Impossible indeed.

To all our dear friends and beloved family, you who celebrate April birthdays, from birthday number 1 to birthday number seventy-one and everywhere in between, we wish you happiness and love, opportunities for joy and for everything you need in the coming year.

To quote one friend, “May you celebrate well and be well-celebrated.”

Happy April Birthday 2013 to each of you.

 

Note:  This photo is not mine.  It is used with permission under the Creative Commons license and the original owner is D. Sharon Pruitt.  Thanks to Sharon for its use.



Happy Birthday to my Daughter



Happy Birthday to my Daughter

In the midst of a surprise snowstorm in October and more than a month early, an erratic labour produced a lovely child with enchanting pale blue eyes; eyes the colour of autumn morning skies.

A new woman in the world.  A tiny pink mouth in a miniature of her father’s face.

She would grow to be generous, make spontaneous decisions, and have boundless capacity for love and sudden laughter.

A mixture of warmth and adventure, ever bringing home stray friends, excelling at school and university, especially in the sciences, arts and writing.

A woman of strong will and inner strength, graceful movements and slow temper, wise counsel and empathy.

She is all this:  world traveller, gourmet cook, handy-woman, organizer, maker of lists, caretaker of the environment, working Mom, fierce and loving mother of two sons, civil engineer, wife.

And more:  red haired, blue-eyed baby, now Senior Construction Project Manager, with wicked wit like her Dad’s, fit and slender, healthy and strong, more beautiful than she knows herself to be.

Happy Birthday to my daughter...

As you walk your own path,

as you dream your own dreams,

as you live the life you choose,

may your living be blessed.

I love you,

Mum

Words and photo are ©copyright Carol Steel.