I had a great birthday yesterday. The key was, I was proactive. I didn't wait for someone else to make my birthday special, I made it special! I woke up to receive a birthday phone call from my sister Elizabeth, which was great. Then I was handed an envelope from my daughter Grace. She had drawn me a picture of flowers in the rain, and it was so sweet, she also included a "gift". She had picked me out a couple pieces of sea glass from her stash and one pretty shell. We like to collect sea glass and have a nice collection from Hawaii. It was really so thoughtful of her. It gave me an idea. I decide that we would go to the beach that our neighbors had told us was full of sea glass and sea tile. So we set out at lunch time, right around the time Mike came home from school with a cake for me and a really nice card, plus 50 dollars to spend as I'd like. Noah didn't want to come, so it was just me and the girls. I then decided why not make it a girls day! We combed the beach for sea glass and pottery pieces, Grace just loved it and didn't want to leave. We spotted what looked like a pirate ship, and the girls called out to the pirates, we found a dead sea lion on the beach and we found a treasure map (actually burnt text book pages from a bon fire). Then we went to Target. I let them each pick out a nail polish color. We then went to Ross and I shopped for a dress and new shoes to match. We also bought Grace a cute pink coat. We returned home to freshen up and went out to dinner with Mike and Noah. We ate at El Torito right on Monterey Bay, it is one of my favorite restaurants here. The view is amazing and from the window beside the table we can watch seals, sea lions and sea otters swim by! When we arrived home we lit the candles on the cake and they sang "Happy Birthday". Afterwards the girls went upstairs and I painted all their toenails. It was like a little slumber party as they weren't in bed till 10pm! YIKES! It really was a great day!
