Happy Birthday to Me!

I went to bed on Saturday night as a tired 47 year old, and woke up with a shiny new 48 years old title! It was a beautiful, sunny Sunday, we had a great breakfast, and spent time together as a family. And then my life givers joined us for a birthday dinner that evening...it's rare that we get to see my parents on my actual birthday, so I was so happy when it all came together. It truly was a wonderful day!

Ava got a hold of my phone and took some funny .5 pics

I'm 2 years old!

On Monday, while the kids were at school, I treated myself to a birthday massage (thanks to Scott!) along with a birthday chocolate croissant, birthday coffee, and a whole lot of birthday beauty items I bought online. It was a wonderful post-birthday celebration with just me!

The rest of the week was really quiet. We didn't have ANYTHING scheduled for the rest of the week in the evening, and it was fantastic. We hung out at home, enjoyed dinners, relaxed, etc. We did manage to get in another hour of night driving for Ava on Friday night after I picked her up from her bf's house. We're less than 10 hours from hitting the 50 hour goal for the driver's test!

Tomorrow (Sunday), we're going to see Mean Girls at RHS...can't wait to see it! In fact, I'm going to see it next weekend, too, with some friends. Gotta support the arts!

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