You Make The World A Better Place

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This old gal…

Came into this world…during a blizzard…so the story goes…hard to get to the hospital…baby piggies decided to be born too…farmer dad stayed behind…to keep them warm…had many more blizzardy birthdays over the years…school closed on the big 4-0…a frigid polar vortex several years later…but that’s the way it is…in January…in Iowa…

Those birthday gods…must have decided…that it’s not this old gal’s birthday…if there isn’t some winter weather outside…and so it was…in usually sunny home away from home…celebrations center around winter storm warnings…dropping temps…black ice…and the dreaded…thundersleet…

But teacher me…loves snow days…even when not working…even in Texas…forced to stay home…time to read…watch tv…relax…birthday gal me…feeling warm all over…enjoying texts and messages…from family and friends…

Treated to a movie and Grubhub…a day at the spa…welcoming two new llamas…into the old gal fold…one a twofer…cute little Leah llama squishie…sharing fancy cupcakes with that husband of mine…and filling that new happy box…with the knowledge…that this old gal’s world…is a good place…these people in her world…good people…

And she’s blessed to be given another year…to do her best…to make it…even better…
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And this husband of mine…agrees…