Today is my 40th birthday.
Love vintage art? Despite its reputation, even the orange shag carpet era was cute.
This is my very pink baby book.
When I’d look through my baby book as a child, I often wondered why Spiro Agnew was a great mind of the time.
I think my dad was being sarcastic.
But I agree that trash masher is a great gadget of the times.
My mom didn’t have a blog. Somehow, she found a way to note my firsts: Laugh, tooth, steps.
I’m still not crazy about orange juice.
I was their first baby. John and Donna, two nice young people living in suburban Denver, became parents 40 years ago, today. Birthdays are more than a celebration of the birth of an individual. Families are born that day. Roles are born. A new path, born.
Here’s to June 6, Every Year. Not just because of baby me but because of them.
(“I’m a Girl!” baby book by the C.R. Gibson Company, Norwalk, CT., 1968)
Happy, happy, happy 40th birthday, Gretchen! Have a wonderful day, and may God bless you with many more happy and healthy years!
You have a baby book!!!??? 0_o
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Happy birthday sister!
Love you, Brian
Happy birthday! One of my great regrets is that my baby book was lost among my father’s things.
Even without blogging I didn’t keep up with my kids’ baby books as well as I would have liked.
Happy birthday to my most favorite blogger friend… wishing you the happiest of days and years yet… May God bless you and your wonderful family 🙂 XXOO
Happy Birthday! And I love your perspective.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GRETCHEN! You are easily one of my favorite bloggers. Your wit, wisdom and perspective make me laugh, think and grow — not always in that order. Plus, you are six months older than me.
Oh my gosh this is fantastic! Happiest birthday to you.
Steph
Happy birthday, Gretchen! May your 40’s be your best decade yet!
Happy Birthday Gretchen! LOVE the baby book. So cute. I’m right behind you and will be joining you in a few months in the Lordy Lordy Look Who’s ___ group.
Happy Birthday! That was a clever and darling way to share the news of your 40th. Enjoy your year.
Happy birthday to our “40 and sporty” daughter. You makes us proud.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GRETCHEN!!!!!!!!!!!! I love this and I love you. I hope today and the year to come just burst with blessing. As others have said, you hold such a dear, close place in my heart. You are one of the most gifted wordsmiths I know, and I so value your gentle wisdom offered through beautiful views on family life.
Here’s to you, pretty mama! Happy, happy!
That’s the cutest baby book ever!!
So awesome that your mom did this for you, what a blessing to have all these years! I’ve been terrible myself with the baby book and albums, but I hope my blog will make up for it.
P.S. Big fan of the trash masher. 😉
Oh happy happy birthday – welcome to the club!!! I was #4 in the sibling line and I have a a pretty pink girly card like yours…but nothing written on it!!! I have no idea if I liked orange juice or anything for that matter… But my folks were roaming Europe and I survived on pretzels!!! Hope you have a bazillion more birthdays with your merry little crew!!!
i am glad i know you gretchen! happy happy birthday!
and isn’t early june such a nice birthday time? i’ve always liked it.
Happy Happy Birthday Gretchen! And, what you said about families being born, so true.
On your birthday you should have been on airplane flying to where I was flying from 🙂
Happy birthday, Gretchen!! It has been one of my great joys of blogging that I got to meet you on these pages and in real life. Hope 40 is super terrific to you!
Dang it, I’m way late, but HAPPY BIRTHDAY! You share it with my youngest boy, who turned 6. 🙂
Aww. Happy Birthday to your boy! It’s a great birthday, if I do say so myself. 😉