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happy birthday to my sweets!
sweets, this is for you on your special day. instead of writing it in a card or handing it to you in a note, i thought i would make it a post so everyone else could read and see how beautiful this poem is.
“Our Union” by Hafiz:
Our union is like this: You feel cold, so I reach for a blanket to cover our shivering feet.
A hunger comes into your body, so I run to my garden and start digging potatoes.
You asked for a few words of comfort and guidance, and I quickly kneel by your side offering you a whole book as a gift.
You ache with loneliness one night so much you weep, and I say here is a rope, tie it around me, I will be your companion for life.
i love you. happy birthday! xxoxo- s
to sam: wishing you a happy first week of life!
happy one week, sam!
you have made so many people happy this week! after your mommy’s courageous twenty-seven (plus) hour labor, you were greeted by an excited family that welcomed you as their first child, son, nephew, grandchild, and grandson. we were all there for you – rooting for you and your mommy and your daddy - and crying joyously when we heard the news, through the delivery room door, that “it’s a boy!”
your other family and friends (you have so many already!) who were not at the hospital were also thinking of you and happy to hear the news of your birth story and arrival via phone calls and the diligent updates made by your daddy throughout your birthday on facebook.
when i first laid eyes on you, i could not stop staring. my eyes welled up with tears (and this, little nephew, is a big thing, since i am not typically a crier). you were looking at your mommy so curiously, so intently as if you had been waiting for that specific moment for forty weeks. you looked so at peace and so happy that that mommy was yours!
i hope you have enjoyed your first week of life as much as we all have welcoming you into it! you are perfect and i am so excited to be part of your family!
i love you, aunt stephanie
heather moore jewelry
how great are these necklaces??! i am loving them. you can build your own, adding charms as major life events happen. i know that they are insanely expensive and my rational mind tells me “no”, but can’t they be justified when you only get one charm at a time? if i were to indulge in one today- i would choose a gold dog bone, a silver disk with a gold frame that reads “s +d” and on the back 12.31.04, and a pretty stone, perhaps a large aquamarine with a gold wire. david, we will be “5″ this year…this is a great gift idea!
30 years and 1 week old (happy belated birthday to me)!
so, again, an unplanned blogging break. several guesses as to why this may be: 1) instead of spending my computer time writing, for the past month, i have been spending my time on a computer christmas shopping, 2) work has been busier with more patients to see, so there is less computer time in general, and 3) lots of fun holiday and birthday activities attended, which would have been great blogging material, but i instead ignored the ideas and kept the computer shut.
so, while you may not be bothered by my lack of words, i am. to remedy the problem, i have made a promise to myself and will now make it to all of you, which i hope will make me more accountable, that i will post a blog at least twice weekly in 2009. i already have lots of ideas for posts, so i will just have to find the time to sit down and create.
for now, i am wishing everyone the merriest of christmases. thanks to all of you who sent warm birthday wishes (and gifts!) and for those of you who sent christmas cards (which we did not)- you have brightened our home with your cheery messages and lovely photos.
happy christmas!
home from our beach vacation
thank goodness for birthdays! it was lovely…AMAZINGLY WONDERFUL. i don’t think we could have scripted it any better. we had such a fabulous time celebrating, something we feel like we’re pretty darn good at. it was perfect in every way. i thought about creating a top 10 list but then that would place some sort of hierarchical order to certain things over others- i would have had a difficult time with that. i decided instead to choose my 10 favorite pictures to illustrate the best of the week. more pictures can be viewed on flickr, just click the flickr link straight from the blog.
happy 30th birthday, sweets!
to my one and only:
wishing you the happiest fourth decade anyone has ever known!
happy birthday, dad!
in celebration of dad’s birthday (today he’s actually 60 years, 5 months, and 18 days) we spent a FUN and relaxing long weekend on the clinch river. we stayed at the clinch river house (featured last year in Southern Living) and spent our days fishing in the “backyard”, lounging at the pavilion, and warming ourselves by one of the many fireplaces and in the hot tub. the highlight of the weekend was our guided fly fishing trip. our guides, jeff and jim, from clinch river guides were awesome and taught us a lot about casting and the art of fly fishing. more importantly, we all caught at least one fish!
thanks for having a birthday, dad! we had such a great weekend. and, i am already looking forward to my next opportunity to go fly fishing…i think i am hooked!
