How to Have a Happy Birthday: Lessons Learned Upon Turning 36

1. Get up a couple of hours before everyone else, so that you can start the day – and the year – on your own terms, and quietly.

2. Stop and smell the flowers –
especially if they are sweet peonies from a friend’s garden


3. Give good hints.


4. But be open to surprises!

5. Let yourself be serenaded.

6. Review your year, and see how it compared to your hopes.

7. Look forward to another trip ’round the sun!

12 thoughts on “How to Have a Happy Birthday: Lessons Learned Upon Turning 36

  1. I love getting up early, before the kiddos. Not that I don’t like seeing them in the morning… 🙂

    Happy Happy Day!

  2. well, a lil’ late but i wish you a happy birthweek, not as cutely as the buddha. that was a great vid. and you have an accent. i didn’t even think of that when reading…accents are cool. smiles.

  3. a belated wish, sorry, but glad you and the boys had such a wonderful birthday!!!! hope it’s a wonderful year for all of you!!!! 🙂

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