Around here April always starts off with my birthday on the 1st. I am 48 now. I had 3 celebrations. The first one was with my friends on March 29th. They took me to lunch and gave me some wonderful gifts. We did a little shopping and planned a nice surprise for our one friend who happened to be absent from my b'day---her b'day is next--on May 1st and she will be 50.
Right on the first, Shawn called me and Sarah and Keith came to dinner. They worked with Bob and put together a very nice meal. Sarah made some Keith-friendly cupcakes--some were red velvet and some were chocolate. And, both kinds were very good. Sarah made some little flowers to decorate the tops. You know, the fancy decorations bakeries make that are mostly sugar. Some flowers were pale green and some were baby blue.
My last celebration was at work. They gave me a card, a cake and a gift certificate.
I loved celebrating my birthday 3 times!
On the 5th some very good friends of ours, Carl and Ella, came for a visit. They were in the DC area for their vacation. They had been doing lots of sight seeing and took a break from all the walking around and drove down to our house for a nice visit. We stayed up late Saturday visiting. They stayed overnight. We had a wonderful breakfast Sunday, visited until lunchtime, then they headed back to DC for more sight seeing. We figured it had been at least 20 years since we saw each other. Everyone's kids were little last time we saw them and everyone's kids are in their 20's now.
We are taking a break this weekend and just relaxing. Then, next weekend, the 19th, Bob and I will walk a 5k fun walk for Hospice and Sarah and Kelly (Keith's sister) will run the 10k.
Our tulips have bloomed and so have the hostas. I love those. The tulips are pink and pink is one of my favorite colors. Although it was warmer today, April so far has been a very chilly month.
Today I went to the beach on base for lunch. I love the beach and the sounds of the water. It's so relaxing. Any stress I'm feeling just melts at the very sound of waves splashing on the shore. A lot of people outside--jogging, walking, bicycling. Lots of parents at the playground with the kids.
Next week, on the 15th, I start my sign language class. Looking forward to that.
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