I turned 34 this year, mom and dad - you are so old. My birthday was great, Dave and Hilde had just got back from the States and we were all together again. And Dave surprised me with a fancy dinner to Rudding Park - a high end restaurant/hotel near us. Hilde told me that I needed to dress fancy and so I scrambled to find anything in my ever shrinking stack of maternity clothes that fit and are "fancy" at 8 months pregnant. Then we enjoyed a date night of Rudding Park and then Star Trek at our local movie theater in the smallest theater I have ever been in. The theater was full (there were only about 50 seats) and it was hot and the chairs were tiny and crammed together. We were both so incredibly uncomfortable that I honestly thought about walking out. But it was a date night with Dave, and we were in no rush to go home, so we stuck it out. I am not a huge birthday person, I like them, but don't get wrapped up in the celebration part of it. All I need is a cake and people I love, and I had that this year. Birthdays do bring about a time of reflection for me, as I suppose it does for a lot of people. I tend to think about all of the things I have accomplished, and the many more I haven't. The places I have been, and the places I want to visit. This year, I just want to spend more time enjoying the best gift I have, my family. And as we have added Phineas, I really look forward to watching our family change and each of us grow in talent, love and hopefully, happiness.
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