Aunt Bea’s Corner

Well, I’ve survived yet another birthday.  The celebration began on Wednesday when my family threw me a surprise bash at Hoffbrau.  These days we have to get together when everyone is home and off from work.  A little tricky with all my guys and their crazy work schedules.  We had the back room all to ourselves which was totally awesome.  The whole group had gone in together and got me a new camera.  It’s blue and it’s way cool.  After we ate we came back to the house for cake.  We had such a great time. 

Yesterday, the girls at work surprised me with lunch and all kinds of gifts.  My boss had baked me a cake which was absolutely to die for and we had a wonderful time laughing and joking around.  It’s a good thing we celebrated a day early because if we had waited to celebrate today (my actual birthday) we would have been too busy with all the orders that came through today. 

Today has been great.  I’ve had calls and text messages from my kids and daughter-in-laws, mother and sisters.  My mom made me a cake today (Italian cream cake) which is oh so yummy, and one of my sisters came for a visit tonight.  A big “Thank You” for all the cards, calls and visits and for making my special day “special.”  You guys are the best.

A couple of the guys in my group are having birthdays this week.  At 27 they are feeling old.  One of them decided he wasn’t going to actually tell his age, he was just going to tell everyone he was “20-whatever. ”  Since my birthday is coming soon I’m thinking about actually adopting the same policy.  Do you think I could get away with saying I’m “20-whatever?”  People say age is just a number, you’re as old as you feel.  If that’s the case I must be “80-whatever.”  At any rate, time marches on.  The “whatevers” continue to come along every year to haunt me.  So I am what I am and that’s that.