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May. 25, 2006

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KARLA!!!!! (And a Contest

My buddy Karla celebrated her birthday Friday, May 19th! Karla is my Blubber Blogger buddy and has been a tremendous help and inspiration to me. I have only known her for a short while, but I have already been blessed by her friendship!

Soooo in honor of her birthday, I am going to have a contest. There will be 3 winners, chosen by Karla;) Here's what you have to do...

First you have to go tell Karla Happy Birthday. Then come back here and share your favorite birthday story with me. To get you started, here are three of my most memorable birthdays. (BTW, the order isn't important as long as you leave your birthday story here and your birthday wishes at Karla's site)

1. When I turned 30, my husband surprised me with a trip to Las Vegas.

2. When I turned 35, my husband surprised me with a limo and a night out on the town.

3. Last year I had a surprise party for my husband's 40th birthday. I loved being able to actually surprise him. And I was able to find some of his childhood friends to attend. It was very much fun!

Now, what can you win: You will have your choice of the following books:

A Four Volume Set of Stories and Fables

Rush Limbaugh: See, I told you so

A Brief Illustrated Guide to Understanding Islam

Folklore on the American Land

Herbie Goes Bananas

100 years of Hoops (Sports Illustrated)

Anatomy of the Spirit

A Place Called Simplicity

In His Steps

Hurlbut's Story of the Bible

Apples of Gold

Foxglove

Encyclopedia Brown's Book of Wacky Animals

Lost on a Mountain in Maine

Challenging the Breast Cancer Legacy

Time with God

Dana

Cervantes

Marlowe/Shakespeare

Plata/Epictetus/Marcus Aurelius

The last four books are Harvard Classics

Now how long shall we celebrate Karla's birthday...This contest will end Friday night, May 26th, midnight Eastern time. So you have a week to collect and submit your stories and to go by and tell my buddy Happy Birthday! So what are you waiting for? Great prizes and stories await!

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May. 19, 2006 - Hi!

Posted by sagerats

Thanks for entering my comment contest! I went on over to Karla's blog and wished her a happy birthday so I can enter your contest. Here is my favorite birthday story:

Many years ago, in a foreign state, I had just begun dating a young man. We found out that we had the same birthday. As our birthday approached I asked a friend what she thought might be an appropriate gift as we had just started dating. She thought a card would do.

I went to the store and carefully studied the cards at hand. After some deliberation I finally chose one that conveyed my feelings for the guy I was dating, a humorous card, that let him know I liked him, but wasn't madly in love with him. (for pity's sake I hardly knew him!)

On our birthday my date came to pick me up and we went out for dinner and a movie. He stumblingly told me that he had bought me a card, he too had consulted a friend on the matter and had been given the same advice. So, we switched cards, opened them together and then burst out laughing. We had bought each other the exact same card!

I didn't wind up marrying this man, we realized that our feelings for each other was only friends. He was fun and funny, and I'm glad I had that experience, because we were still, just friends. We hadn't lost ourselves in stupidity and nonsense.

Abiding in the Vine!

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May. 19, 2006 - Tonight's chat

Posted by iluvtheland

Hi there,

I'm just visiting all the Blubber Blogger's Blogs and reminding them about the online chat tonight with Jeannie Fulbright. If you are interested, just make sure you have AOL Instant Messenger (you can download a free version on the AOL site) and email me you screen name so I can invite you to the chatroom (my email is mkin@udata.com). Be sure to put CHAT in the subject line so I don't miss you!

If you have any questions for Jeannie, if you could send them to me ahead of time, it would help her be able to answer better, but you can ask questions tonight, too. I hope that you can make it :-) In case you missed it, Jeannie's guest lecture is on our Blubber Blogger Blog.

Hugs,
Kathy

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May. 20, 2006 - Best Birthday Ever

Posted by im4given

My best birthday had to be my 40th. I know everyone else says eeekkk but I felt so blessed. My daughters, 13 and 15 at the time, put together a surprise party along with my mom and sister's help. My birthday is in Feb. and they began in Dec. working on the surprise. Well the day arrived and my husband and kids said we were going to dinner so off we go...we kept driving around and around and then drove to my mom and dad's house...I was like WHAT???? We drive up the driveway and balloons and posters, etc. were everywhere..I felt so blessed my family would go to so much trouble for me...and that my young teenage daughters had put it together....homeschooling is paying off ....God bless you all for sharing your stories and to my friend for doing this contest...AWESOME...God bless~~deb

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May. 20, 2006 - Birthday Contest

Posted by JSM

My best birthday EVER was when I turned 50!!!! You may not know it but I gave birth to 1 child, 4 are my husbands children from a previous marrage. We adopted Ash after we were married.
He had 11 grandchildren by his 4 and I loved them dearly but I have always wnted a grandchild of my own. My Daughter always said she would never have children but I had faith and prayed constantly for a grand child. In fact I was so sure of it that when she graduated high schol I cross stitched a baby blanket. Well when turned 50 DD was 32. She asked what did i want for my BD constantly during the year. On my 49th bd I got extremely upset and told her I wanted NOTHING from her, that all I had ever dreamed of was a precious grandchild of my own. On my 50th BD just as i had asked she did not buy anything but a very cheap dollar store card. It is my greatest treasure!
It said, "Happy Birthday Grandma" and was signed from your grandson who will be here in 7 months!!!
I am crying as i write this because that precious little boy is 2 and the most awesome child ever. And I can say that because I am his grandma!!!!

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May. 20, 2006 - Birthday Contest

Posted by JSM

My husbands favorite birthday was when he turned 50 also. The kids and I always make a really big deal. so he always says don't get me anything so we didn't instead I contacted each of his brothers and sisters and all the kids to write a letter to him telling hims the impact he had had on their lives. we sat him in front of the fire place as usual and he thought that we were going to give him his gifts in the usual way. The first person to read her letter was his 80 year old mother. The each one stood up and read their letters to him as the photographer took pictures. There wasn't a dry eye in the house. I compiled all the letters and pictures in a scrapbook for him. he still gets weepy when he looks at it and reads each letter.
the title of the scrapbook is
Jess Martinez-YOU ARE LOVED!
Judy

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May. 20, 2006 - Best Birthday Ever

Posted by daybydaygrace

My best birthday ever was my 26th birthday. See, I did not marry until I was 25. My Mom had always baked me a German Chocolate cake because it was my favorite, but she had informed me that that was my DH's job now. As my birthday aproached, I never saw my DH go get the ingredients to bake my cake, even up until about 10:00p.m. the night before my birthday. My birthday just wasn't going to be the same. We were spending the night with his Mom, & I did not know he had given her the money to get the stuff for the cake. The next morning, (let me remind you, I did not see her cooking a cake either), but the next morning when I got up, there set my German Chocolate cake. His Mom got up & baked it about 5:00a.m. that morning. Boy was I surprised! He did love me, all of those other thoughts must have just been crazy things in my head. That was my best birthday ever. He also got me my family's favorite Lasagna pan that we still use today. Traci

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May. 21, 2006 - Birthday in Holland

Posted by MarlaMom

My favorite birthday was my 19th. I was in Holland at a missionary base doing a Discipleship Training School and it was one of the few birthdays I had spent away from my parents. I didn't know what to expect, but a couple of the students in the school got together and planned a party for myself and one of the leaders of our school. We got to be the Queen and King for the evening (His last name was King) and many of the students did various skits, read poems, played kind practical jokes on us, and then they presented us with gifts. Someone went and bought a WHOLE BUNCH of french fries (one of my favorite treats there in Holland - nothing like McDonalds) and brought them back for us all to consume. It was such a fun birthday party for everyone (not just Brian and I) and so creative. I still feel blessed and slightly spoiled thinking back to those people making it a special birthday for the youngest girl in the school.

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May. 23, 2006 - What A Fun Contest!!!

Posted by jaminacema

Okay, favorite birthday.....I have many, but one of them was the year I turned 36. I was pregnant with my 2nd child and she was due in 4 days. I wanted her to be born on MY birthday! (Not her's! LOL) I decided I would walk until I induced labor. Off we went to the Mall 45 minutes from our house. I must have walked 20 miles! Not one contraction, which was probably good because when my water did break 4 days later (on her due date!) she was born in 9 minutes! How luck I am that I didn't give birth to her at the Mall! LOL

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May. 23, 2006 - Birthday Memories

Posted by quietcajun

When I was little, we did not have much money, but I remember when I was 10. My mom made the coolest butterfly cake. She took a rectangular cake, cut a strip from one end so the cake was now square. Then, she cut the square diagonally so it was two triangles. She turned the triangles with the smallest point in towards each other for the wings and put the rectangle in between for the body and frosted and decorated it complete with licorice antenna! It was so cool. And I got a pair of roller skates! They were the kind you strap onto your shoes that came with a key to adjust them. I was so excited! I remember she did not have any wrapping paper so she used tin foil and I thought it was so beautiful and shiny! It did not even occur to me how little I had, but I was so joyful in my mom's creative love for me!

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May. 24, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by writmm

Quiet Cajun...what a lovely story! Thanks for sharing it!

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May. 24, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Abiga51

Well, here I am returning you comment and saying you were so right. Comments are very hard to come by. By the way did I say yet you are so so so so right. ;o)
I also wished your pal a happy birthday. I read some of the stories about birthdays and they are so wonderful, especially the one about the women at fifty getting her wish of a grandchild. As a grandma it touched my heart. I don't have any that spectacular but here goes. - For my 40th birthday I was struggling to go through a divorce, raising my four children almost single handedly, going back to college, and cleaning houses for extra cash. My thirteen year old daughter having to grow up too quickly knew of this struggle besides her own through all of it too. She planned a surprise party for me without my finding out. I also felt so old at the time because of the circumstances that I really did not want to hit the big 40. She invited my closest friends who were all helping me at the time to make it emotionally. This was not an easy feat for her because she is shy and quiet and hates talking on the phone, (still does.) Plus as I said she was struggling emotionally also. But it was so sweet of her to think of me at this time. It was a great party. My fiftieth birthday was special also. Although I was living away from my eldest children at the time they sent me the biggest flower arrangement I had ever gotten yet at the time. It was delivered to my classroom. I had always seen otheres get those flowers at school but never me so it was a big thrill. My mom also sent me one at home. Besides this the kindergarten class at the school came walking in my room singing happy birthday to me and announcing my age. Now this was hilarious because I had always looked young for my age so I never revealed it to my students. I would joke and say 25 or maybe 100 years old. Now the cat was definately out of the bag for the whole school to know. Oh well........ Blessings!

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May. 25, 2006 - <i>Untitled Comment</i>

Posted by

What a wonderful birthday story Abiga51! Thanks so much for sharing them both!

and thanks for the comment;)

Edited by writmm on May. 25, 2006 at 5:06 AM

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May. 25, 2006 - My favorite birthday...

Posted by iluvtheland

I have hated getting older and having the kids leave home. I'm a mommy at heart, and always will be. So when my 50th birthday was drawing near, I was in a real funk. Not only did it mark, to me, the end of being a young mom with kids at home, but I was also very upset because none of the kids could come home for my birthday. You see, my birthday is Dec. 28th, and ever since I was a little girl, my birthday had gotten ignored because it was too close to Christmas.
Each child had a different excuse, but the gist was that they would have just been home for Christmas and couldn't come up again. Even BJ, my baby who is the last still at home, had something he just had to go to for Boy Scouts. :-(
I have to admit that I cried and cried that no one seemed to care about this milestone birthday. I was so depressed!
But that day came, and my husband insisted that I wash my hair and get ready to go somewhere, because at least the two of us could go somewhere. That should have clued me in, because that is not a typical thing for my husband to say or do.
As soon as I was dressed, several cars drove in the drive. ALL my kids were there, even my son and his fiance from Mississippi! They had arranged a surprise party, and their gift to me was something that I had asked for for several years----a family picture with EVERYONE, including in-laws, and my granddaughter, and another portrait of all 4 of my kids together. It's the one that is now on the sidebar of my blog.
They didn't forget me after all, and it turned out to be a wonderful day, even if I was officially "half dead." You see, my little granddaughter, then 5, told me that most people don't live to be 100, so that meant that I was more than half dead... Out of the mouths of babes...LOL
Kathy

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