Today's my husband's birthday! It's also my sister's birthday and my husband's twin brother's birthday. Our phone stays busy either making or receiving calls every March 24th!
I always try to make it special on my hubby's birthday. Today I wrote him a birthday message on the chalk board on our pantry door with lots of color--chalk confetti and balloons. I enjoy leaving him messages there. It's like giving a little gift each time I do it. It makes me smile.
For dinner tonight, I moved a small table in front of the fireplace and covered it with a blue and white window pane check table cloth I picked up in an antique shop in Oregon a couple of years ago. I remember where I bought it because the lady was so nice. It was only $5 because it has a few small holes in it. I cover the holes with dishes, or flowers, or cutlery. I plan to get some iron on fabric to patch the holes with so it will be a little more presentable and sturdy.
I picked yellow forsythia, pale pink camellias, dark pink camellias, and a purple bell shaped flower that I don't know the name of (they smell like perfume) and made a small arrangement that I put in a small white creamer. Our napkins were Carolina blue. My husband had the "star plate" that has been in our family for over 20 years.
I got it from Pier 1 when our daughters were young for a few dollars. Over the years, we used it if there were good grades to celebrate or on someone's birthday or just to celebrate a guest who was visiting. It was always special and interesting to see how we could use it to encourage someone.
My dinner plate tonight was a pale blue fire king square plate. We each had a cup and saucer that matched the fire king plate. The beverage glasses were forest green Boopie glasses. My husband's favorite meal includes hamburger steak, so that's what I prepared for him tonight on the grill. Along with that we had green beans I canned last summer (Slenderettes--we purchase the seeds in Pennsylvania), baked potatoes, and yummy crescent rolls.
For a surprise dessert, I made a Key Lime Cake complete with birthday candles. I say surprise dessert because I'm not a big baker. I can bake, but I just don't bake often because I'm not much for sugar myself and it just doesn't occur to me to bake. Call me crazy!
My husband made a big deal over the supper. He says I always make him feel special, but isn't that what we do as Christian wives? He has always been loving, caring, a great father, a good provider, and a husband that took his role as head of the household seriously.
We made a conscious decision before we married that our home would follow the teachings concerning husbands and wives according to the Bible. God has a Plan and it has worked wonderfully for us and our family. I'm very thankful for my husband and I appreciate and love him very much!
I used to tell him if I'd had a catalog that I could have picked a husband from, it would have been someone with all his qualities. He's very special!
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Friday, October 9, 2009
Happy Birthday Girls!
Tomorrow is a HUGE day in our family! Our daughters have the same birthday three years apart. My husband is a twin and we thought we might possibly be blessed with twins, but we got the next best thing with identical birthdays for our daughters. Our daughters are each very precious to us.
Every birthday was a big deal with these two. More people acknowledged their big day because they shared it. It was always so novel that it garnered alot more attention for them. People would drop by throughout the week leaving gifts or they would send a card or present in the mail. For them, it was almost like Christmas. Birthdays would last a week because by the time they received mail, gifts from a variety of adults, and then we would have a birthday party (or as they got older they each had a party) it would be a week's worth of celebrating!
The older daughter is a UNC graduate majoring in political science and the younger is an ECU graduate with a degree in communication.
The first born can talk anybody into giving her their money--aka a fund raising whiz. She is quick to take a casserole when a family is suffering a loss. And she always has a long to-do list. She learned this early on when during the summer break from school I would post a list of chores suited to their ages and abilities that needed to be completed before playing. She liked checking off each task as it was finished.
The younger daughter has the gift of music. She is creative in a number of ways, such as poetry. She would go to her room and return to me in 5 minutes with a poem she had written on the spur of the minute! She was always thinking about others feelings as a child and still does. She empathizes with others when their lives take a nose dive. She likes keeping a calendar and list full of projects and work.
They each have the gift of making us laugh. They like girly activities such as pedicures, manicures, massages, shopping and dining out. I thoroughly enjoy their friendship now as adults and like going on excursions with them. They are different in alot of ways, but both are beautiful with their dark good looks.
They keep in constant contact with us and we feel blessed that they are still close to us. We make a point of seeing each other as often as possible. They have enriched our lives more than they know.
Happy Birthday Debbie Dianne and Pippy (names their Dad used for them in one of the many bedtime stories he created) or is it Morgan and Jordan (names they used when they pretended to have jobs). And of course, there was Lynn Culture they were always paging when they pretended to be working at the K Mart service desk.
Every birthday was a big deal with these two. More people acknowledged their big day because they shared it. It was always so novel that it garnered alot more attention for them. People would drop by throughout the week leaving gifts or they would send a card or present in the mail. For them, it was almost like Christmas. Birthdays would last a week because by the time they received mail, gifts from a variety of adults, and then we would have a birthday party (or as they got older they each had a party) it would be a week's worth of celebrating!
The older daughter is a UNC graduate majoring in political science and the younger is an ECU graduate with a degree in communication.
The first born can talk anybody into giving her their money--aka a fund raising whiz. She is quick to take a casserole when a family is suffering a loss. And she always has a long to-do list. She learned this early on when during the summer break from school I would post a list of chores suited to their ages and abilities that needed to be completed before playing. She liked checking off each task as it was finished.
The younger daughter has the gift of music. She is creative in a number of ways, such as poetry. She would go to her room and return to me in 5 minutes with a poem she had written on the spur of the minute! She was always thinking about others feelings as a child and still does. She empathizes with others when their lives take a nose dive. She likes keeping a calendar and list full of projects and work.
They each have the gift of making us laugh. They like girly activities such as pedicures, manicures, massages, shopping and dining out. I thoroughly enjoy their friendship now as adults and like going on excursions with them. They are different in alot of ways, but both are beautiful with their dark good looks.
They keep in constant contact with us and we feel blessed that they are still close to us. We make a point of seeing each other as often as possible. They have enriched our lives more than they know.
Happy Birthday Debbie Dianne and Pippy (names their Dad used for them in one of the many bedtime stories he created) or is it Morgan and Jordan (names they used when they pretended to have jobs). And of course, there was Lynn Culture they were always paging when they pretended to be working at the K Mart service desk.
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