happy birthday, sweetheart

Today's my husband's birthday, and it's not a milestone he's happy about. To top if off, he's got a respiratory infection that has him coughing up his toenails (I had it two weeks ago for about three years :)] and he's just not feeling well. Hope you'll indulge me in sending him birthday greetings...hopefully, you can use this more generic birthday word art greeting in YOUR life!

As always, I'd love to see how you use any of my word art... and for those of you who leave comments, I'm extremely grateful. It's nice to know I'm not creating these things and working in a vacuum!

Blessings on your day,
Melanie
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it is what it is

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metamorphosis

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blessed are the flexible

I'm not keeping score, but do you find yourself having to be much more flexible in your attitude these days than ever before?! Seems like that's true, to me anyway. Just a thought!

blessings on your day,
Melanie

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no eraser

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the same things are funny

For those of you in the US, did you have a great Labor Day weekend? My husband had looked forward to it until I got him locked into attending a family function. He loves my family but wanted a break from any MUST DO thing. We were both feelin flu-ish, which didn't help, but the party/shower for my niece and her fiance turned out GREAT. My niece liked the decorations that I had prepared so much that she wants a variation of them for the programs at her wedding in a couple of weeks. I was thrilled...she's such a free spirit, gifted, lovable person and I was delighted to still be able to tune in on her wavelength! Know what I mean?

Laughter is the same way, I think. Shared laughter is such a delightful feeling...and for a moment you are all on the same wavelength, the same plane, the same level of humor that's such a liberating place to be. I had taken some pipe cleaners and those goofy eyes with adhesive backing for the little guys to play with while the gift-opening was going on. They had a blast making spiders and monsters and microphones out of those very inexpensive craft items. One of the 3-year-olds plastered a row of the eyes all along his upper lip like a mustache, with the smaller versions of the eyes spaced on his cheeks and forehead (one errant eye landed on his flip-flops, much to his annoyance). But all of us attending the party laughed aloud when the 6-year-old showed up with a pipecleaner red pointy hat and a white pipecleaner mustache/beard, ho-ho-ho-ing...the bride-to-be and groom-to-be stopped everything to join the laughter and the extra photo ops of these little guys and their antics and we enjoyed that slice-of-life moment equally, from age 3 to 76. Laughter spans generations, which is AMAZING when you think about it. Today's word art reflects that feeling. Hope you can use it!

blessings on your day,

Melanie

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love these moments

I'm not a negative person, usually, just a realist. Conversely, my personality type, overall, is considered "melancholy." Go figure. I'm a Gemini...what can I say!

Because of that paradox in my personality, I rarely have moments where I honestly will sit back and think to myself: "Life is GOOD!" When I hear/read that phrase, my mind's eye conjures up an image of myself stretched out on a hammock, swinging between two sturdy oak trees, on a hillside, with the wind gently blowing the grasses--which make that lovely swishing sound that is so fresh, vibrant, soft--lost in a good book...yet totally in tune with my surroundings. Try it sometime...if you can't make it happen for real when things are just so busy, crazy, sad...give yourself a LIG moment to remind yourself about what's important to you...and how important you are to the world and those you love.



Blessings on your day,
Melanie


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