November: the month of my birth.  Celebrations have commenced.  Maddy has to attend a mandatory meeting on Saturday, so she gave me my presents early.

A beautiful bouquet.  The vintage vase is mine -- and SO PERFECT for these flowers, which were augmented and, I daresay, enhanced by the inclusion of some, well, weeds... dead ones... like this:

I love my girls!

She also gave me a brooch and instructions not to actually wear it 'til I'm old... which must mean that I'm not there yet.

It is really awesome, and I almost can't wait to get old!  Heh.  Snagged at RiverEdge Galleries in Mishicot on a trip out to the lake, she also found this fabulous old photo:

I love it in so many ways!

My birthday will be celebrated intermittently and possibly even sporadically this year due to unforeseen circumstances from which the dust hasn't even settled yet.  I was informed this morning that there had been plans for a surprise party (again!) (now scrapped), mainly because Addison would have loved it -- and I love that!  I suggested that it would really be a surprise to have a surprise party for no good reason, when no one expected any sort of party at all!  Maybe we'll have one in January for his mom.

Anyway, I was going to celebrate for a week, but, falling on a weekend, I couldn't decide whether I should call it the week before or the week after, and pretty much decided BOTH!  And now, I'll just celebrate for as long as I feel like celebrating... could be right through Thanksgiving or even the whole month.

Haha!  There will be cake.