2010 Birthday Celebrations

As all the faithful readers know, the Smith family mops up those birthdays in one week's time - the last week of September. As we are drawing to a close on the third and final birthday of the past five days, I've decided to create a list of activities enjoyed by the members of the Smith family (Jan, Drake and Sarah Lynn) this week. Here they are. You can use your imagination as to which activity was enjoyed by which birthday person. In no particular order:

1) The ballet

2) Played blackjack

3) Went to the Quilt Museum

4) Got Flowers

5) Played Bridge

6) Dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel

7) Manicure

8) Northwestern art purchases (2)

9) Joyful Entertainment........

10) Necklace purchases (2)

11) New Shirts

12) 10 Mile Bike Ride

13) Mad Men Birthday Party

14) New Dress

15) Window Shopping

16) Gourmet lunch

17) Watched baseball game(s)

18) Ate Cascade Glacier ice cream

19) Won 'best card'

20) Unexpectedly found 101 Shiner Beer

21) Rooted the Sooners on to VICTORY

22) Texas Rangers clinched the American League Western Division

23) Gourmet breakfast

24) Basked in perfect weather

25) Drank mocha frappes

In the last blog I asked each of you to tell me how old you felt internally. Here are the answers from the Smith's: Jan feels like 42. (Yes, it's a strange number, but the reason I chose that age is because that's the first year I became a teacher.) Drake feels like he's 30. (Please note that Drake chose an age prior to to becoming a parent......) Sarah feels like 22 or 23. (She qualified this to mean that she doesn't feel like a college kid anymore and identifies herself psychologically as a career person)

FYI - only one person who responded picked her psychological age as OLDER than her chronological age. A few people said they feel exactly how old they are chronologically, but everyone else pegged their psychological age as roughly 20 years or more younger than their physical age. I think it's a reminder that you're only as old as you feel.

I'm looking forward to my 60's. My 50's were no picnic, and I survived those. Since there's a time for everything and a season for everything, the 60's should be great. All I can say is so far so good. That's it for birthdays 2010 - milestones for each of us (two 60's and one 25). Thanks to everyone who 'remembered'. We loved getting all the nice messages and lovely cards.