The Birthday Weekend Continues

The birthday party moved to Boise…

The Best Thing Ever: When your granddaughter screams with joy because you have arrived. My at-least monthly trips to Boise for the past 18 months have paid off — she hasn’t forgotten me!

Frosted Sugar Cookies from Crumbl — YUM.

Berkeley has exploded with words and is in constant motion.

Berkeley needed an outfit to match her beloved purple bunny — PLA3 had the perfect dress (and coordinating shorts).

And Lincoln is showing his own personality. Children are fascinating for so many reasons!

Few of us put our foot in our mouth with such charm!

I hope your weekend is as sweet as mine.

An Intentional Birthday

In order to ensure I made the most of my birthday, I made a list of things I wanted to do.

Dear Daughter sent that card — isn’t it perfect?

And then we went to dinner. We have the most amazing restaurant in Stevensville called the Mission Bistro — it is a gem.

And the birthday weekend continues today.

I bet you can just imagine what else would be on my list for a most excellent birthday.

A Birthday

Today is my birthday.

I am sixty.

I do not feel sixty but then again, how is sixty suppose to feel?

I suspect the essence of a person is ageless and timeless, which is why so many of us are stunned at our chronological age.

American society is not kind to older people — especially women. I feel this often. It is like we become invisible and unimportant.

I think this is why so many of us become bolder and louder and just more forthright as we age. It is in response to social pressures that want to minimize us, or maybe just hide us away so everyone can pretend that youth is eternal.

I grew up in the era of Women’s Liberation and this has shaped my life and provided opportunity that the generations of women before me did not enjoy. As my generation ages, I hope we can carry forward that revolutionary spirit and redefine what it means to grow older so that our daughters and granddaughters and nieces are valued at every phase of their lives.

Live out loud at every age — the next generations are watching.