Hello Forty!

Hello Forty!

I was born at the crack of dawn and often find myself awake way before it these days. It was a beautiful start to a great Birthday.

My wonderful husband decorated my traditional cherry cheesecake.

It really is the best cheesecake EVER!

Manicures and pedicures a plenty...

with alot of Forty Fabulousness!

 The next was followed by a surprise visit to the Butterfly Conservatory & Royal Botanical Gardens. The same garden we had our wedding photos taken but have not been back since we had the girls.

The girls were not as happy about the butterflies landing on them as I had thought. They didn't like it at all actually. Good thing there was a beautiful garden to be explored.

 The last time I saw this fountain was when my husband and I stood on the edge to take pictures. Now I am watching our daughter play sitting on it. Sure made me feel very BLESSED!

On Turning 40

Youth, it seems

In retrospect to be

A swamp

A tangle of trials and tests

Filtering us through the maze

Of options

Choices and passages

We change

As we choose

Each turn we take

Each choice

Directs our path, our focus

Now, turning 40

I count myself blessed

To survive and grow

To find the compass

Of love, experience

And faith

Blessed to know who I am

To accept my path

Unique to all

Precicely my own

To be comfortable

In my skin

To know that all we are

All we have

Is but part of the Master plan

Michele Sundstrom