Birthdays are a strange thing.
When you’re young, you can’t wait to have a party. It used to be all your friends at your house with party hats and games; today it’s Chucky Cheese or Rock Climbing parties.
When you’re a teen you often just go to the mall with some friends or hang at someone’s house for your birthday. Big shows of celebration of your day of birth are embarrassing.
When you’re in college, your birthday usually turns into a bender, with loud music and laughing, drunk friends playing beer pong or beer bags.
When you’re in your 20s and 30s you often have kids, so your idea of celebrating your birthday is having your parents babysit while you get a night out for dinner and/or a movie.
When you celebrate your birthday in your 40s or 50s, you’ve usually got a good group of friends around you, so you enjoy throwing a big bash at your house or at a friend’s house. You drink chocolate martinis and eat hors d’oeuvres. You play music from your teens and dance around the living room with a beer or a glass of wine.
When you head into your 60s, celebrating your birthday takes a different turn. Your birthday parties entail taking the family out to dinner for something “different” like hot wings or Thai, and you try not to think of how many years you’ve got left to sing “Happy Birthday.”
I’m not in my 70s yet, so I don’t know how I’ll spend them. I try and be a glass half full kinda girl, but when there are more years behind you than in front of you, that’s a hard task to keep.
Yet these birthdays are the most important. Because I’ll tell you one thing.
Another birthday means you’ve survived.
I’ve survived Cabbage Patch Kids, 8-Tracks, The Freddie, and Howdy Doody. I’ve survived 9/11, the impeachment of Nixon, and the death of Lynyrd Skynyrd. I celebrate being alive and full of love and hope, even in the face of runaway Twitter or bashing poor Charlie Brown tv shows.
I celebrate because I’m alive. Looking around me, that’s not always an easy thing to be.
So what does a 66-year-old do for their birthday?
How about sushi with my family then the grandkids over night then go to see Wreck It Ralph Wrecks the Internet tomorrow? That’s love, no matter how you celebrate it.
Celebrate YOUR birthday every year. Every day.
Make your heart happy.
You make me feel soooo good! Thank you!
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Love this so much β¨
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Yes!!!
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I hope your 66th year will be great !
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Not to thank, all good!!
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They are. I had the best of all world this weekend = time with my kids, my grandkids, and went to see Irish dancers. Who could ask for more?
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You go girl! Every year we can put behind us is a 365 day celebration!
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I do…and I’m so glad to celebrate with you! When the road is longer behind than in front of us, every day is a miracle!
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Thank you!!!
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Thank you! I had a wonderful weekend and am happy to be playing every day towards my 67th!
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Oh you are never too late, my good friend! I survived the weekend and I”m starting to play towards 67!
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I may be a bit late but from the bottom of my heart :Happy Birthday and many happy returns dear Claudia !!!!
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Amen my favorite!
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Thank you…I will!
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Make every birthday memorable!! πΉ
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Happy Birthday dear Claudia, only 66, you’re a spring chicken !! And every new day is like having a birthay. I hope you enjoyed your day xxx ((Hugs))
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So what does a 66-year-old do for their birthday?
They celebrate with friends… even if online… Have a wonderful birthday and believe me, they are painless whatever age… and they sure beat the alternative!
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Happy Merry Merry Birthday Claudia. Have a fabulous one π π π π π π π πΉπ·πΈπΊπ»
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alles gute!!!!zum Geburtstag
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indeed there is love!
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Happy Birthday Claudia..I turn 70 next year, I’ll let you know how I celebrate.
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No matter what age, birthdays are best when spent with family and friends. All the best!
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