Birthday gifts

 

My two beautiful daughters Tiffany and Lyndsay and precious grandkids, Kylee and Landan

I crossed another milestone this past weekend. My 53rd Birthday! My cancer journey has replaced the dread of growing old to a humbled thankfulness of being blessed with another year of life. My day was spent with my 2 daughters and 2 grandchildren at the Zoo. It was a beautiful sunny day. We laughed and ate ice cream, we played in the water mist and taught Kylee to say all the names of the animals. The kids got to milk a cow and brush a goat. This Birthday was so special to me. I felt good, I was alive, I was surrounded by 4 precious gifts. After the zoo it was a lunch treat at Cracker Barrel. The day ended too soon.

Thank you God for another year~

Later that afternoon, I met Rand out at Gobbler Knob to work on our Guniea coup and camp for the night. We released the Guniea's into the pen that afternoon. They were so happy! They stretched their wings, jumped in the air, pecked and talked and flew. I was then gifted with 5 Americana chickens! It's fun seeing our little piece of the world come together. Soon we'll start the construction of our earth bag home. I plan on living there for the rest of my life...many many years...surrounded by my family and reverting to a hippie. I figured that I would end my adulthood the way I started it! Barefoot and free~

Counting my gifts is one way of putting Cancer at bay for a moment...there's no room for it. What a blessing!