In the afterglow <3

Well, my goodness. 

Everyone was so very nice yesterday and made my birthday super special. 

Thank you from the bottom of my heart. 

It made me feel so loved and as a result I want to do the same for others. 

Which is extremely awkward because up to this point, I have rather failed at birthdays outside of our immediate family. I have been able to acknowledge anyone whose date of birth has been added to my phone calendar, which was done with no real rhyme or reason.

Perhaps a nephew has a date marked in my phone, but the niece was passed over; one friend of the family sibling was gifted, another not. Some friends and even a few acquaintances are on that digital record, but not everyone. 

Sadly, all of the births and anniversaries of loved ones are in solid ink in our old address book. I used to record all the coming year’s events in the new calendar after I finished addressing Christmas cards. 

Now we have a new book and I passed the card task on to Russ when he retired. Thus I forgot to pull the old book out of my desk and fill in all the celebrations and now the year is half over. 

And everyone was still super nice to me even though I probably forgot more than half of their special days. 

The guilt is heavy and I will be having to send some belated wishes when I finally have a minute  to face the music. 

I also will have to write myself a reminder note in December on our current calendar to get those dates added before we ring in 2026!

Thanks again for all the birthday love and happy belated whatever if I missed yours <3