Special Birthday Post! It is 1:45pm when I wake up. I eat my favorite breakfast, put some egg nog in my coffee, and get a big hug from my son. While I see the present sitting in my spot on the couch, it will have to wait for everyone to get here. I pick up my daughter from school. It is a warm, beautiful day in mid-December. So beautiful that the ice cream truck is out. The kids play outside. I work out, shower, run errands. When I come home, Husband is already helping to cook dinner for our guests. We make out in the kitchen. Everyone arrives, including my brand new nephew who I get to hold for several long stretches. Everyone enjoys my homemade alfredo. I leave for work, stopping to pick up my favorite coffee drink and pastry- which was the last cheese danish left in the case. I have 10 minutes, so I sneak over to Bath and Body Works to pick up gifts-and I find exactly what I wanted for the recipient. As I'm walking back to my car, it occurs to me that I can't think of a birthday I've enjoyed more. Thank you, family of mine, for making it possible (and a quick shout-out to the universe, for saving me that last cheese danish).