A Sweet Surprise and I'm Turning 60!

Happy Friday my friends! 

This week I had a sweet surprise when I walked into work on Wednesday. My co-workers had decorated my desk for my upcoming birthday and it was so sweet and thoughtful.  

 I am off on my actual birthday, so this early celebration was just what I needed to get in the birthday mood 🎂

I was having a little trouble accepting the fact that I'm turning 60, but then I saw one of my favorite YouTubers say that she didn't even start her channel until she was 60 (10 years ago) and it really helped change my perspective.

I guess age is what you make of it...at any age, so here I am...almost 60! 🎉🎈🎊

Yesterday I had lunch with one of my best friends, which is always a treat. We always solve all the problems over chips and salsa or queso, which is the best way to solve everything 😀 We try to meet up every other month or so, and end up talking for hours. It's definitely one of my favorite things to do. 

Today I will do all the things that require my attention around the house, such as paying bills, finishing up laundry, deciding what's for dinner and working on my special project Collin has been helping me with. 

I love my days at home and feel so thankful that I have a job with time off to do the things I love doing. I've purposely written "read" and "embroidery" on my Never Ending To-Do List, so that I will take the time to just sit in between everything else. Sometimes you have to pencil in the fun things, so you will take time to actually relax. 

I also made a little vow to myself recently to get back to being creative. I've let that go a lot over the past few months and this week I purposely took about 15 minutes to do some fun journaling during my Bible reading one morning and you know what?...it refreshed my soul in ways I had forgotten. 

I love creating fun, whimsical notebooks, using paper and stickers and visual prompts made from magazines. Just the cutting, gluing and then writing what those pictures make me think about, is basically like therapy in the best way. And being creative is one of the things that feeds my soul. I need to not neglect that part of who I am. 💛

So...hopefully this next week of days will bring calm and peace, as well as more celebrating. I know my kids have planned dinner for me on Monday and we will have a few special guests there, as well. I can't wait! 

I hope you all have the best weekend and hopefully I've inspired you (or just reminded you) to do something that feeds your soul these next few days. It's important. If you do, write about it and inspire the rest of us! That's important too 😀 Tell your stories. 

I love you, my friends!

Until Next Time...

Blessings!