100/50 Words
It’s Our Birthday Month
Thrifty Words 100 Challenge #93 and Fifty Words #114: Happy Birthday
I love this time of year. Partly because it’s spring and winter is finally over and done with— but mostly because it’s my birthday month. Mine and my eldest daughter (ED) — she was due on the 18th of April, but decided to come nine days early which happened to be my 25th birthday. I still recall sitting on my bed, calling friends to cancel my party with the immortal words ‘my waters broke’. I had a private party later in the labour ward. Just me, the midwife, my mum and my friend Ingrid Pollard, who was there to take the photographs.
ED and I have been partying together ever since— but not this as year she is going abroad for hers so we will celebrate separately… Hey ho, I can’t complain — we’ve had thirty-six years of joint earth days!
It’s extra special this year because for the first time since we’ve been alive, our birthdays fall on Easter Sunday. The last time that happened was in 1950. Strangely enough, Easter also fell on April 9 in 1939 and 1944.
The older I get the more I want to celebrate my life. I used to only commemorate the actual day I was born, but nowadays the observances go on for almost the entire month. It doesn’t have to be big or lavish. It’s…
