Changed For The Good

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That mother of mine…

Always made angel food cake for birthdays…just like her mother did…and most likely just like HER mother did…

There wasn’t a cake choice…no chocolate or marble…could pick the color for the powdered sugar frosting…but the cake…the type of birthday cake…was always non-negotiable…

And not gonna lie…little me didn’t like angel food cake…teenage me didn’t like angel food cake…me in my twenties…didn’t like angel food cake…

And then someone…a close friend…a woman dear to the heart…served up that angel food cake…with strawberries…

And the world stopped…angels sang and one of us who thought she didn’t like angel food cake suddenly knew her life had changed for the better…

And so it is today…Birthday Queen me tips her crown to one more year around the sun…to good health…to grand adventures…and celebrates all who have changed her life for good…

So so many of you…friends…family…teachers…neighbors…Pumpkin…Wrigley…Retirement Ramblings readers…

Those beautiful daughters of mine…that man who calls this Birthday Queen his wife…

You know who you are…or maybe you don’t…but never doubt that you are special…you’ve made a difference…and in one way or another you have changed an old gal somewhere along her life’s journey…for good…maybe even gooder than good…
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And for that…she says thank you…