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Life has a way of meandering by. I do the best that I can. I love God. I love my family. Most days life is normal, but not spectacular. The things most important to me go off in a regular fashion. My relationship with my husband is happily consistent. We love each other. We work. We talk. We play. We argue. We debate. We compromise. Through most of our days, there are no fireworks, nor catastrophes. We are grateful. Life is normal. And it’s the same with our children. We stay in touch. We try not to butt into their lives or interfere where we are not welcome. They are adults now, so we try to just let them do life and be themselves. If they ask for advice, we are happy to give it. Maybe we don’t always get it right, but we try!
But sometimes things happen that warm my heart and my cup feels full. It is when we all draw closer and over the last few weeks, it has happened without me, but because of me. With my 50th birthday only a short time away…
…there has been much surreptitious communication behind my back regarding gifts and plans. The other day, Mike & Stacey spent 40 minutes on the phone – that was a good Dad/daughter chinwag (especially for two introverts)! Also with me being involved at CTV for 4 nights last week, David has been home having dinner with Mike and there has been lots of conversation. For me, this is the best! While I’m curious regarding what they’ve been talking about, I’m more excited about the fact that there has been all this discussion and I wasn’t part of it. Mike also called my brother (Julian) for advice! I just love it!
My birthday has all happened rather early. Way back in July was Julian’s gift to me – the Zanzibar holiday. 😀 Then tomorrow, Mike & I go to Aquila for two nights, that’s a wonderful part of his gift to me. I’m not sure how good the internet is there, so it may just come to pass that I don’t have a blog or they become come out at odd times. I’ll see what happens. I’ll take my netbook, but I won’t stress about HAVING to get a blog out by 4pm! I’m looking forward to Aquila. Trip Advisor has come up with some people giving it * and some *****. I wonder how Mike & I will find it!
Then Mike has a golf competition on Friday. Simultaneously, Julian arrives from Johannesburg for the weekend and Adrian and Stacey arrive from Swellendam. This is the ‘birthday celebration’ weekend. We hope to have a photo shoot on Saturday and dinner out on Saturday evening. Everyone returns home on Sunday and the main birthday celebrations will be over. Mike is taking the day off on my birthday and we plan a day out and a quiet dinner probably with David! No big party – I had those on my 30th and 40th.
And I will be …
…and with my 50th, I feel fabulous and grateful!
Psalm 50:1-3 says this,
“The Mighty One, God, the Lord, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to where it sets. From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth. Our God comes and will not be silent;”
I’m getting this out early because I’m meeting Mike in Cape Town! I think I will go and have my HBA1C checked. It’s about time. When I had it done in March, it was 5.6%. In July it was 5.4%, so that was an improvement. It will be interesting to see if it’s stayed the same or (hopefully) gone down. Drive for 5, they say!
Keep the smile going!
God bless you!
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂
Gratitude Pic…At Imhoff this morning, we admired the junior alpacas and this one admired us…don’t you want to just take him home??
