I am so thankful that my husband knows me well enough that he did not plant forty flamingos or some other thing in our front yard this morning.  Instead, I got served coffee in bed and a box of chocolates which the kids helped me eat.  It was a great way to start the day!  I also had phone calls from near and far away that touched my heart.

I never make New Year’s resolutions but I do make birthday ones.  It’s a nice way to celebrate yourself and refocus your energy on something you’d like to accomplish in your new year.  I recently rented the movie, “Things we lost in the fire,” with Halle Barry and Benicio del Toro.  Halle’s husband in the movie keeps reminding her to, “accept the good.”   Well, this year I am going to try to do a better job of accepting the good.  I think as moms we are so used to taking care of everything and everyone that when it comes to us, it’s easier to just do it ourselves.  At least for me, I am not very good at accepting help mainly because by the time I would explain what it is I need done, I could have done it already. 

I have had wonderful sweet dear friends and family offer to plan parties for my birthday and I turned them all down.  I just want to hold my little family close and celebrate quietly.  Also, I am not comfortable with all that attention or maybe I don’t feel I deserve it, but this year I am going to work on accepting all the good and see what comes my way.